A special last buffer with cl->buf->pos set to NULL can be present in
a chain when writing request body if chunked encoding was used. This
resulted in a NULL pointer dereference if it happened to be the only
buffer left after a do...while loop iteration in ngx_write_chain_to_file().
The problem originally appeared in nginx 1.3.9 with chunked encoding
support. Additionally, rev. 3832b608dc8d (nginx 1.9.13) changed the
minimum number of buffers to trigger this from IOV_MAX (typically 1024)
to NGX_IOVS_PREALLOCATE (typically 64).
Fix is to skip such buffers in ngx_chain_to_iovec(), much like it is
done in other places.
Previously, the stream's window was kept zero in order to prevent a client
from sending the request body before it was requested (see 887cca40ba6a for
details). Until such initial window was acknowledged all requests with
data were rejected (see 0aa07850922f for details).
That approach revealed a number of problems:
1. Some clients (notably MS IE/Edge, Safari, iOS applications) show an error
or even crash if a stream is rejected;
2. This requires at least one RTT for every request with body before the
client receives window update and able to send data.
To overcome these problems the new directive "http2_body_preread_size" is
introduced. It sets the initial window and configures a special per stream
preread buffer that is used to save all incoming data before the body is
requested and processed.
If the directive's value is lower than the default initial window (65535),
as previously, all streams with data will be rejected until the new window
is acknowledged. Otherwise, no special processing is used and all requests
with data are welcome right from the connection start.
The default value is chosen to be 64k, which is bigger than the default
initial window. Setting it to zero is fully complaint to the previous
behavior.
Now, the module extracts optional port which may accompany an
IP address. This custom extension is introduced, among other
things, in order to facilitate logging of original client ports.
Addresses with ports are expected to be in the RFC 3986 format,
that is, with IPv6 addresses in square brackets. E.g.,
"X-Real-IP: [2001:0db8::1]:12345" sets client port ($remote_port)
to 12345.
Previously, when the client address was changed to the one from
the PROXY protocol header, the client port ($remote_port) was
reset to zero. Now the client port is also changed to the one
from the PROXY protocol header.
The 6f8254ae61b8 change inadvertently fixed the duplicate port
detection similar to how it was fixed for mail in b2920b517490.
It also revealed another issue: the socket type (tcp vs. udp)
wasn't taken into account.
Since 4fbef397c753 nginx rejects with the 400 error any attempts of
requesting different host over the same connection, if the relevant
virtual server requires verification of a client certificate.
While requesting hosts other than negotiated isn't something legal
in HTTP/1.x, the HTTP/2 specification explicitly permits such requests
for connection reuse and has introduced a special response code 421.
According to RFC 7540 Section 9.1.2 this code can be sent by a server
that is not configured to produce responses for the combination of
scheme and authority that are included in the request URI. And the
client may retry the request over a different connection.
Now this code is used for requests that aren't authorized in current
connection. After receiving the 421 response a client will be able
to open a new connection, provide the required certificate and retry
the request.
Unfortunately, not all clients currently are able to handle it well.
Notably Chrome just shows an error, while at least the latest version
of Firefox retries the request over a new connection.
Using the same DH parameters on multiple servers is believed to be subject
to precomputation attacks, see http://weakdh.org/. Additionally, 1024 bits
are not enough in the modern world as well. Let users provide their own
DH parameters with the ssl_dhparam directive if they want to use EDH ciphers.
Note that SSL_CTX_set_dh_auto() as provided by OpenSSL 1.1.0 uses fixed
DH parameters from RFC 5114 and RFC 3526, and therefore subject to the same
precomputation attacks. We avoid using it as well.
This change also fixes compilation with OpenSSL 1.1.0-pre5 (aka Beta 2),
as OpenSSL developers changed their policy after releasing Beta 1 and
broke API once again by making the DH struct opaque (see ticket #860).
OpenSSL 1.0.2+ allows configuring a curve list instead of a single curve
previously supported. This allows use of different curves depending on
what client supports (as available via the elliptic_curves extension),
and also allows use of different curves in an ECDHE key exchange and
in the ECDSA certificate.
The special value "auto" was introduced (now the default for ssl_ecdh_curve),
which means "use an internal list of curves as available in the OpenSSL
library used". For versions prior to OpenSSL 1.0.2 it maps to "prime256v1"
as previously used. The default in 1.0.2b+ prefers prime256v1 as well
(and X25519 in OpenSSL 1.1.0+).
As client vs. server preference of curves is controlled by the
same option as used for ciphers (SSL_OP_CIPHER_SERVER_PREFERENCE),
the ssl_prefer_server_ciphers directive now controls both.
The SSL_CTX_add0_chain_cert() function as introduced in OpenSSL 1.0.2 now
used instead of SSL_CTX_add_extra_chain_cert().
SSL_CTX_add_extra_chain_cert() adds extra certs for all certificates
in the context, while SSL_CTX_add0_chain_cert() only to a particular
certificate. There is no difference unless multiple certificates are used,
though it is important when using multiple certificates.
Additionally, SSL_CTX_select_current_cert() is now called before using
a chain to make sure correct chain will be returned.
A pointer to a previously configured certificate now stored in a certificate.
This makes it possible to iterate though all certificates configured in
the SSL context. This is now used to configure OCSP stapling for all
certificates, and in ngx_ssl_session_id_context().
As SSL_CTX_use_certificate() frees previously loaded certificate of the same
type, and we have no way to find out if it's the case, X509_free() calls
are now posponed till ngx_ssl_cleanup_ctx().
Note that in OpenSSL 1.0.2+ this can be done without storing things in exdata
using the SSL_CTX_set_current_cert() and SSL_CTX_get0_certificate() functions.
These are not yet available in all supported versions though, so it's easier
to continue to use exdata for now.
This makes it possible to properly return OCSP staple with multiple
certificates configured.
Note that it only works properly in OpenSSL 1.0.1d+, 1.0.0k, 0.9.8y+.
In older versions SSL_get_certificate() fails to return correct certificate
when the certificate status callback is called.
Both minor and major versions are now limited to 999 maximum. In case of
r->http_minor, this limit is already implied by the code. Major version,
r->http_major, in theory can be up to 65535 with current code, but such
values are very unlikely to become real (and, additionally, such values
are not allowed by RFC 7230), so the same test was used for r->http_major.
When it's known that the kernel supports EPOLLRDHUP, there is no need in
additional recv() call to get EOF or error when the flag is absent in the
event generated by the kernel. A special runtime test is done at startup
to detect if EPOLLRDHUP is actually supported by the kernel because
epoll_ctl() silently ignores unknown flags.
With this knowledge it's now possible to drop the "ready" flag for partial
read. Previously, the "ready" flag was kept until the recv() returned EOF
or error. In particular, this change allows the lingering close heuristics
(which relies on the "ready" flag state) to actually work on Linux, and not
wait for more data in most cases.
The "available" flag is now used in the read event with the semantics similar
to the corresponding counter in kqueue.
