Nginx mod_security leaks file descriptors

[Kiril Kalchev]

Hi,

I have a problem with nginx and mod_security module. After reloading nginx configuration (kill -HUP <master-nginx-pid>) all files opened by mod_security are opened once again without closing the old ones. That means at some point we hit the limit of open file descriptors, in my real life scenario I leak over 300 files on each reload.

Here are my sample configs just to illustrate the problem:
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nginx.conf
user www-data www-data;
worker_processes 6;
worker_rlimit_nofile 200000;

error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log debug;

events {
        worker_connections  16384;
        multi_accept on;
        use epoll;
}

http {
        server {
                listen 80;
                location / {
                        ModSecurityEnabled on;
                        ModSecurityConfig modsecurity.conf;
                        return 555;
                }
        }
}

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modsecurity.conf:

# Debug log
SecDebugLog /var/log/waf/events.log
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In this situation after each configuration reload I am leaking open files:

www-data at dev03 ~ # lsof | grep nginx | wc -l; kill -HUP `ps aux | grep 'nginx: master process' | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`; sleep 2; lsof | grep nginx |  wc -l
361
368

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and nginx _openresty 1.4.2.1

(DEPLOY)www-data at dev03:~# nginx -V
nginx version: ngx_openresty/1.4.2.1
built by gcc 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)
TLS SNI support enabled

Does someone else have the same problem?

I will be happy to provide other information if necessary.

Regards,
Kiril

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