Thomas Jackson created TS-4970:
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             Summary: Crash in INKVConnInternal if handle_event is called after 
destroy()
                 Key: TS-4970
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TS-4970
             Project: Traffic Server
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: HTTP
            Reporter: Thomas Jackson


We've noticed a few crashes for requests using SPDY (on ATS 5.2.x and 6..x) 
where the downstream origin is down with a backtrace that looks something like:

{code}
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
#1  0x00000000004cfe54 in set_continuation (this=0x2afe63a93530, event=1, 
    edata=0x2afe6399fc40) at ../iocore/eventsystem/P_VIO.h:104
#2  INKVConnInternal::handle_event (this=0x2afe63a93530, event=1, 
    edata=0x2afe6399fc40) at InkAPI.cc:1060
#3  0x00000000006f8e65 in handleEvent (this=0x2afe3dd07000, e=0x2afe6399fc40, 
    calling_code=1) at I_Continuation.h:146
#4  EThread::process_event (this=0x2afe3dd07000, e=0x2afe6399fc40, 
    calling_code=1) at UnixEThread.cc:144
#5  0x00000000006f993b in EThread::execute (this=0x2afe3dd07000)
    at UnixEThread.cc:195
#6  0x00000000006f832a in spawn_thread_internal (a=0x2afe3badf400)
    at Thread.cc:88
#7  0x0000003861c079d1 in start_thread () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
#8  0x00000038614e8b5d in clone () from /lib64/libc.so.6
{code}

Which looks a bit odd-- as frame 0 is missing. From digging into it a bit more 
(with the help of [~amc]) we found that the VC we where calling was an 
INKContInternal (meaning an INKVConnInternal):

{code}
(gdb) p (INKVConnInternal) *vc_server
$5 = {<INKContInternal> = {<DummyVConnection> = {<VConnection> = 
{<Continuation> = {<force_VFPT_to_top> = {_vptr.force_VFPT_to_top = 
0x2afe63a93170}, 
          handler = (int (Continuation::*)(Continuation *, int, 
    void *)) 0x4cfd90 <INKVConnInternal::handle_event(int, void*)>, mutex = {
            m_ptr = 0x0}, link = {<SLink<Continuation>> = {next = 0x0}, 
            prev = 0x0}}, lerrno = 20600}, <No data fields>}, 
    mdata = 0xdeaddead, m_event_func = 0x2afe43c18490
     <(anonymous namespace)::handleTransformationPluginEvents(TSCont, TSEvent, 
void*)>, m_event_count = 0, m_closed = -1, m_deletable = 1, m_deleted = 1, 
    m_free_magic = INKCONT_INTERN_MAGIC_ALIVE}, m_read_vio = {_cont = 0x0, 
    nbytes = 0, ndone = 0, op = 0, buffer = {mbuf = 0x0, entry = 0x0}, 
    vc_server = 0x0, mutex = {m_ptr = 0x0}}, m_write_vio = {_cont = 0x0, 
    nbytes = 122, ndone = 0, op = 0, buffer = {mbuf = 0x0, entry = 0x0}, 
    vc_server = 0x2afe63a93530, mutex = {m_ptr = 0x0}}, 
  m_output_vc = 0x2afe63091a88}
{code}

>From looking at the debug logs that lead up to the crash, I'm seeing that some 
>events (namely timeout events) are being called after the VConn has been 
>destroy()'d . This lead me to find that INKVConnInternal::handle_event is 
>actually checking if that is the case-- and then re-destroying everything, 
>which makes no sense.

So although the ideal would be to not call handle_event on a closed VConn, 
crashing is definitely not acceptable. My solution is to continue to only call 
the event handler if the VConn hasn't been deleted-- but instead of attempting 
to re-destroy the connection, we'll leave it be (unless we are in debug mode-- 
where I'll throw in an assert).

I did some looking at this on ATS7 and it looks like this is all fixed by the 
cleanup of the whole free-ing stuff for VConns 
(https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/pull/752/files).



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