Nginx eats 100% cpu in ngx_event_pipe_write_to_downstream
Maxim Dounin
mdounin at mdounin.ru
Sun May 12 00:06:40 UTC 2013
Hello!
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 08:09:59PM -0300, Breno Silva wrote:
> Hello Maxim,
>
> We are sending chains data into a brigade/bucket structure (APR). It
> sometimes works fine.. sometimes trigger the cpu issue
>
> If i call:
> rc = move_chain_to_brigade(in, ctx->brigade, r->pool, 1); <--- change
> from 0 to 1
> Then i will get only the first X bytes of the response body. This works
> great... but i need the entire buffer :)
>
> Could you give us more details how we could patch this function to fix the
> issue ?
Remove the
ngx_free_chain(pool, cl);
call from the move_chain_to_brigade() function, it should fix you
CPU hog issues.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 04:23:00PM -0300, Breno Silva wrote:
> >
> > > Hello list,
> > >
> > > We are porting ModSecurity to NGINX. However we are seeing sometimes an
> > > issue. Nginx eats 100% of cpu and when i use gdb i see:
> > >
> > > gdb -p 8645
> > >
> > > ngx_event_pipe_write_to_downstream (p=0x9bbc720, do_write=0) at
> > > src/event/ngx_event_pipe.c:551
> > >
> > > 551 if (cl->buf->recycled) {
> > > (gdb)
> > >
> > > Looks like it is happening when we call
> > ngx_http_modsecurity_body_filter()
> > > then go to this conditions;
> > >
> > > rc = move_chain_to_brigade(in, ctx->brigade, r->pool, 0);
> > >
> > > if (rc != NGX_OK) {
> > >
> > > r->buffered |= NGX_HTTP_SSI_BUFFERED;
> > >
> > > return rc;
> > >
> > > }
> > >
> > > move_chainto_brigade is defined as:
> > >
> > >
> > > ngx_int_t
> > >
> > > move_chain_to_brigade(ngx_chain_t *chain, apr_bucket_brigade *bb,
> > > ngx_pool_t *pool, ngx_int_t last_buf) {
> > >
> > > apr_bucket *e;
> > >
> > > ngx_chain_t *cl;
> > >
> > >
> > > while (chain) {
> > >
> > > e = ngx_buf_to_apr_bucket(chain->buf, bb->p, bb->bucket_alloc);
> > >
> > > if (e == NULL) {
> > >
> > > return NGX_ERROR;
> > >
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > > APR_BRIGADE_INSERT_TAIL(bb, e);
> > >
> > > if (chain->buf->last_buf) {
> > >
> > > e = apr_bucket_eos_create(bb->bucket_alloc);
> > >
> > > APR_BRIGADE_INSERT_TAIL(bb, e);
> > >
> > > chain->buf->last_buf = 0;
> > >
> > > return NGX_OK;
> > >
> > > }
> > >
> > > cl = chain;
> > >
> > > chain = chain->next;
> > >
> > > ngx_free_chain(pool, cl);
> > >
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > > if (last_buf) {
> > >
> > > e = apr_bucket_eos_create(bb->bucket_alloc);
> > >
> > > APR_BRIGADE_INSERT_TAIL(bb, e);
> > >
> > > return NGX_OK;
> > >
> > > }
> > >
> > > return NGX_AGAIN;
> > >
> > > }
> > > Let me know if you guys can help us understanding why sometimes we
> > trigger
> > > this issue
> >
> > It looks like your code modify chain links (ngx_chain_t
> > structures) as got by your response body filter. This is not
> > something filters are allowed to do, and results are undefined.
> > If a filter needs to modify chain, it should allocate it's own
> > chain links.
> >
> > In the code quoted you probably don't want to touch chain links at
> > all.
> >
> > --
> > Maxim Dounin
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> >
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