great ! Willy, could you apply the attached patch ?
thanks Thierry
0001-BUG-MEDIUM-dead-lock-when-Lua-tasks-are-trigerred.patch
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> On 6 Jan 2019, at 19:11, Thierry Fournier <thierry.fourn...@arpalert.org>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the bug report.
> Your "uneducated guess" was right.
>
> Could you test the patch in attachment ?
>
> Thanks
> Thierry
> <0001-BUG-MEDIUM-dead-lock-when-Lua-tasks-are-trigerred.patch>
>
>> On 2 Jan 2019, at 01:40, Flakebi <flak...@t-online.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am currently trying to send an http request for some incoming requests to
>> a logging server.
>> The incoming connection should be handled independent of the logging, so it
>> should be possible
>> that the incoming connection is already closed, while the logging is still
>> in progress.
>>
>> I use lua to create a new http action. This action then registers a task to
>> decouple the logging.
>> And the rest happens inside this task.
>>
>> As far as I understand the lua api documentation, it should be possible to
>> call `register_task` [1]
>> inside an action. However, HAProxy deadlocks when a request comes in.
>> My uneducated guess would be that HAProxy hangs in a spinlock because it
>> tries to create a lua context
>> while still executing lua.
>>
>> I tested version 1.8.14 and 1.9.0 and they show the same behaviour.
>> The lua version is 5.3.5.
>>
>> Am I missing something? Should this be possible at all?
>>
>> gdb tells the following stacktrace. HAProxy never leaves the hlua_ctx_init
>> function:
>>
>> #0 0x000008eb8d04fd0f in hlua_ctx_init ()
>> #1 0x000008eb8d0533f0 in ?? ()
>> #2 0x00006de619c40d27 in ?? () from /usr/lib/liblua.so.5.3
>> #3 0x00006de619c4db85 in ?? () from /usr/lib/liblua.so.5.3
>> #4 0x00006de619c403b3 in ?? () from /usr/lib/liblua.so.5.3
>> #5 0x00006de619c410a9 in lua_resume () from /usr/lib/liblua.so.5.3
>> #6 0x000008eb8d04cf9a in ?? ()
>> #7 0x000008eb8d05197e in ?? ()
>> #8 0x000008eb8d05d037 in http_req_get_intercept_rule ()
>> #9 0x000008eb8d063f96 in http_process_req_common ()
>> #10 0x000008eb8d08f0f1 in process_stream ()
>> #11 0x000008eb8d156b08 in process_runnable_tasks ()
>> #12 0x000008eb8d0d443b in ?? ()
>> #13 0x000008eb8d02b660 in main ()
>>
>>
>> haproxy.cfg:
>> global
>> lua-load mytest.lua
>>
>> listen server
>> mode http
>> bind :7999
>> http-request lua.test
>> server s 127.0.0.1:8081
>>
>>
>> mytest.lua:
>> function test(txn)
>> -- This works when commenting out the task creation
>> core.register_task(function()
>> core.Warning("Aha")
>> end)
>> end
>>
>> core.register_action("test", { "http-req" }, test, 0)
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Flakebi
>>
>> [1]
>> https://www.arpalert.org/src/haproxy-lua-api/1.8/index.html#core.register_task
>
