Hey Yann,

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 12:56:40PM +0100, Yann Ylavic wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 12:54 PM, Yann Ylavic <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 11:47 AM, Christian Folini
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> We have just been told, that a regression affecting several production 
> >> servers
> >> is fixed by
> >> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/trunk/server/mpm/event/event.c?r1=1822535&r2=1823047&diff_format=h#l1065
> >
> > Are you sure that r1823047 is the commit fixing the issue?
> > I would have thought more of r1820796 (already backported to 2.4.30)
> > which looks more related to third-party modules.
> 
> Or was it a regression between the two maybe?

Honestly, I can not really tell. It's what the mod_qos dev (in CC) told me.

@Pascal can you chime in on that?


On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 12:54:32PM +0100, Yann Ylavic wrote:
> > It's an interaction between mod_qos, mod_reqtimeout and the event mpm that
> > led to segfault in our case (triggered by aggressive ssl scanners setting
> > off alarms in mod_qos). The qos  developers states it's been introduced in
> > 2.4.29 and the above patch fixes httpd's part of the problem. He will issue
> > a new release as well.
> 
> Do you have more details on the issue and/or relevent commit on the
> mod_qos side?

There is a very aggressive ssl scanner opening several thousand connections in
a few seconds (have not found out which one). mod_qos tries to close the 
connections, new 2.4 httpd ignores that, then mod_reqtimeout sets in and
segfaults.

> > So if you could backport this for 2.4.30 or a following release, it would
> > be very welcome.
> 
> Real tests and fixes certainly help backports ;)
> It would be nice to be sure about the right fix, though.

We'd be glad to help. Functioning workaround is in place. Replacing it with a
patch httpd in prod is no problem.

Cheers,

Christian


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