potential pipe-lining corruption fix

Brad Fitzpatrick brad at danga.com
Wed Sep 20 01:32:19 UTC 2006


Today at the MogileFS summit Alan (from http://www.gaiaonline.com/)
mentioned that if he enables persistent backend connections, users get
mismatched requests to responses.... but not when he accesses it.  And it
takes awhile to happen during low load.

All this pointed to errors handling malformed client requests, and sure
enough, I think this is it....

We don't disconnect users who do pipelining.  I was able to sneak through
multiple requests to the backend and then two requests would come back,
but they'd be assigned to different users.

This fix doesn't break the test suite, but before I commit, Alan --- can
you verify it fixes things for you?



Index: lib/Perlbal/ClientProxy.pm
===================================================================
--- lib/Perlbal/ClientProxy.pm  (revision 565)
+++ lib/Perlbal/ClientProxy.pm  (working copy)
@@ -584,13 +584,11 @@
     # (see: Danga::Socket::read)
     return $self->client_disconnected unless defined $bref;

-    # if we got data that we weren't expecting, something's bogus with
-    # our state machine (internal error)
-    if (defined $remain && ! $remain) {
-        my $blen = length($$bref);
-        my $content = substr($$bref, 0, 80 < $blen ? 80 : $blen);
-        Carp::cluck("INTERNAL ERROR: event_read called on when we're expecting no more bytes.  len=$blen, content=[$content]\n");
-        $self->close;
+    # if they didn't declare a content body length and we just got a
+    # readable event that's not a disconnect, something's messed up.
+    # they're overflowing us.  disconnect!
+    if (! $remain) {
+        $self->close("over_wrote");
         return;
     }


- Brad


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