CLUSTER SLOTS now includes IDs in the nodes description associated with
a given slot range. Certain client libraries implementations need a way
to reference a node in an unique way, so they were relying on CLUSTER
NODES, that is not a stable API and may change frequently depending on
Redis Cluster future requirements.
1. Bug #3035 is fixed (NULL pointer access). This was happening with the
folling set of conditions:
* For some reason one of the Sentinels, let's call it Sentinel_A, changed ID (reconfigured from scratch), but is as the same address at which it used to be.
* Sentinel_A performs a failover and/or has a newer configuration compared to another Sentinel, that we call, Sentinel_B.
* Sentinel_B receives an HELLO message from Sentinel_A, where the address and/or ID is mismatched, but it is reporting a newer configuration for the master they are both monitoring.
2. Sentinels now must have an ID otherwise they are not loaded nor persisted in the configuration. This allows to have conflicting Sentinels with the same address since now the master->sentinels dictionary is indexed by Sentinel ID.
3. The code now detects if a Sentinel is annoucing itself with an IP/port pair already busy (of another Sentinel). The old Sentinel that had the same port/pair is set as having port 0, that means, the address is invalid. We may discover the right address later via HELLO messages.
The change covers the case where:
1. There is a node we can't reach (in fail or pfail state).
2. We see a different address for this node, in the gossip section sent
to us by a node that, instead, is able to talk with the node we cannot
talk to.
In this case it's a good bet to switch to the address reported by this
node, since there was an address switch and it is able to talk with the
node and we are not.
However previosuly this was done in a dangerous way, by initiating an
handshake. The handshake, using the MEET packet, forces the receiver to
join our cluster, and this is not a good idea. If the node in question
really just switched address, but is the same node, it already knows about
us, so we just need to perform an address update and a reconnection.
So with this commit instead we just update the address of the node,
release the node link if any, and attempt to reconnect in the next
clusterCron() cycle.
The commit also improves debugging messages printed by Cluster during
address or ID switches.
Another leak was fixed in the case of syntax error by restructuring the
allocation strategy for the two dynamic vectors.
We also make sure to always close the cached socket on I/O errors so that
all the I/O errors are handled the same, even if we had a previously
queued error of a different kind from the destination server.
Thanks to Kevin McGehee. Related to issue #3016.
In issue #3016 Kevin McGehee identified multiple very serious issues in
the new implementation of MIGRATE. This commit attempts to restructure
the code in oder to avoid mistakes, an analysis of the new
implementation is in progress in order to check for possible edge cases.
With this commit we preserve the list of nodes that have .slaveof set
to the node, even when the node is turned into a slave, and make sure to
fix the .slaveof pointers to NULL when a node is freed from memory,
regardless of the fact it's a slave or a master.
Basically we try to remember the logical master in the current
configuration even if the logical master advertised it as a slave
already. However we still remember the associations, so that when a node
is freed we can fix them.
This should fix issue #3002.
Sometimes during "fixes" we have to setup a new configuration and assign
slots to nodes. With BUMPEPOCH we can make sure the new configuration of
the node will win if there are conflicting configurations (for example
another node is *also* claiming the same slot because the cluster is
totally messed up).
This fix, provided by Paul Kulchenko (@pkulchenko), allows the Lua
scripting engine to evaluate statements with a trailing comment like the
following one:
EVAL "print() --comment" 0
Lua can't parse the above if the string does not end with a newline, so
now a final newline is always added automatically. This does not change
the SHA1 of scripts since the SHA1 is computed on the body we pass to
EVAL, without the other code we add to register the function.
Close#2951.
Extend the MIGRATE extra freedom to be able to be called in the context
of the local slot, anytime there is a slot open in one or the other
direction (importing or migrating). This is useful for redis-trib to fix
the cluster when it has in an odd state.
Thix fix allows "redis-trib fix" to make its work in certain cases where
previously an error was reported.
Previously it was possible to activate a debugging session only using
the --ldb option in redis-cli. Now calling SCRIPT DEBUG can also
activate the debugging mode without putting the redis-cli in a
desynchronized state.
Related to #2952.
Example of offending code:
> script debug yes
OK
> eval "local a = {1} a[1] = a\nprint(a)" 0
1) * Stopped at 1, stop reason = step over
2) -> 1 local a = {1} a[1] = a
> next
1) * Stopped at 2, stop reason = step over
2) -> 2 print(a)
> print
... server crash ...
Close#2955.
An exposed Redis instance on the internet can be cause of serious
issues. Since Redis, by default, binds to all the interfaces, it is easy
to forget an instance without any protection layer, for error.
Protected mode try to address this feature in a soft way, providing a
layer of protection, but giving clues to Redis users about why the
server is not accepting connections.
When protected mode is enabeld (the default), and if there are no
minumum hints about the fact the server is properly configured (no
"bind" directive is used in order to restrict the server to certain
interfaces, nor a password is set), clients connecting from external
intefaces are refused with an error explaining what to do in order to
fix the issue.
Clients connecting from the IPv4 and IPv6 lookback interfaces are still
accepted normally, similarly Unix domain socket connections are not
restricted in any way.
For non existing keys, we don't want to send -ASK redirections to
MIGRATE, since when moving slots from the migrating node to the
importing node, we want just to ignore keys that are no longer there.
They may be expired or deleted between the GETKEYSINSLOT call and the
MIGRATE call. Otherwise this causes an error during migrations with
redis-trib (or equivalent cluster management tools).
In issue #2948 a crash was reported in processCommand(). Later Oran Agra
(@oranagra) traced the bug (in private chat) in the following sequence
of events:
1. Some maxmemory is set.
2. The slave is the currently active client and is executing PING or
REPLCONF or whatever a slave can send to its master.
3. freeMemoryIfNeeded() is called since maxmemory is set.
4. flushSlavesOutputBuffers() is called by freeMemoryIfNeeded().
5. During slaves buffers flush, a write error could be encoutered in
writeToClient() or sendReplyToClient() depending on the version of
Redis. This will trigger freeClient() against the currently active
client, so a segmentation fault will likely happen in
processCommand() immediately after the call to freeMemoryIfNeeded().
There are different possible fixes:
1. Add flags to writeToClient() (recent versions code base) so that
we can ignore the write errors, and use this flag in
flushSlavesOutputBuffers(). However this is not simple to do in older
versions of Redis.
2. Use freeClientAsync() during write errors. This works but changes the
current behavior of releasing clients ASAP when possible. Normally
we write to clients during the normal event loop processing, in the
writable client, where there is no active client, so no care must be
taken.
3. The fix of this commit: to detect that the current client is no
longer valid. This fix is a bit "ad-hoc", but works across all the
versions and has the advantage of not changing the remaining
behavior. Only alters what happens during this race condition,
hopefully.
The old test, designed to do a transformation on the bits that was
invertible, in order to avoid touching the original memory content, was
not effective as it was redis-server --test-memory. The former often
reported OK while the latter was able to spot the error.
So the test was substituted with one that may perform better, however
the new one must backup the memory tested, so it tests memory in small
pieces. This limits the effectiveness because of the CPU caches. However
some attempt is made in order to trash the CPU cache between the fill
and the check stages, but not for the addressing test unfortunately.
We'll see if this test will be able to find errors where the old failed.
We use the new variadic/pipelined MIGRATE for faster migration.
Testing is not easy because to see the time it takes for a slot to be
migrated requires a very large data set, but even with all the overhead
of migrating multiple slots and to setup them properly, what used to
take 4 seconds (1 million keys, 200 slots migrated) is now 1.6 which is
a good improvement. However the improvement can be a lot larger if:
1. We use large datasets where a single slot has many keys.
2. By moving more than 10 keys per iteration, making this configurable,
which is planned.
Close#2710Close#2711
We need to process replies after errors in order to delete keys
successfully transferred. Also argument rewriting was fixed since
it was broken in several ways. Now a fresh argument vector is created
and set if we are acknowledged of at least one key.
We wait a fixed amount of time (5 seconds currently) much greater than
the usual Cluster node to node communication latency, before migrating.
This way when a failover occurs, before detecting the new master as a
target for migration, we give the time to its natural slaves (the slaves
of the failed over master) to announce they switched to the new master,
preventing an useless migration operation.
Some time ago I broken replicas migration (reported in #2924).
The idea was to prevent masters without replicas from getting replicas
because of replica migration, I remember it to create issues with tests,
but there is no clue in the commit message about why it was so
undesirable.
However my patch as a side effect totally ruined the concept of replicas
migration since we want it to work also for instances that, technically,
never had slaves in the past: promoted slaves.
So now instead the ability to be targeted by replicas migration, is a
new flag "migrate-to". It only applies to masters, and is set in the
following two cases:
1. When a master gets a slave, it is set.
2. When a slave turns into a master because of fail over, it is set.
This way replicas migration targets are only masters that used to have
slaves, and slaves of masters (that used to have slaves... obviously)
and are promoted.
The new flag is only internal, and is never exposed in the output nor
persisted in the nodes configuration, since all the information to
handle it are implicit in the cluster configuration we already have.
Now we have a single function to call in any state of the slave
handshake, instead of using different functions for different states
which is error prone. Change performed in the context of issue #2479 but
does not fix it, since should be functionally identical to the past.
Just an attempt to make replication.c simpler to follow.
There are some cases of printing unsigned integer with %d conversion
specificator and vice versa (signed integer with %u specificator).
Patch by Sergey Polovko. Backported to Redis from Disque.
My guess was that wait3() with WNOHANG could never return -1 and an
error. However issue #2897 may possibly indicate that this could happen
under non clear conditions. While we try to understand this better,
better to handle a return value of -1 explicitly, otherwise in the
case a BGREWRITE is in progress but wait3() returns -1, the effect is to
match the first branch of the if/else block since server.rdb_child_pid
is -1, and call backgroundSaveDoneHandler() without a good reason, that
will, in turn, crash the Redis server with an assertion.
Now it lists code around the current position by default. Can list any
other part using other arguments, but a new "whole" command was added in
order to show the whole source code easily.
Redis-cli handles the debugger "eval" command in a special way since
sdssplitargs() would not be ok: we need to send the Redis debugger the
whole Lua script without any parsing. However in order to later free the
argument vector inside redis-cli using just sdsfreesplitres(), we need
to allocate the array of SDS pointers using the same allocator SDS is
using, that may differ to what Redis is using.
So now a newer version of SDS exports sds_malloc() and other allocator
functions to give access, to the program it is linked to, the allocator
used internally by SDS.
When the debugger exits now it produces an <endsession> tag that informs
redis-cli (or other debugging clients) that the session terminated.
This way the client knows there is yet another reply to read (the one of
the EVAL script itself), and can switch to non-debugging mode ASAP.
It's handly to just eval "5+5" without the return and see it printed on
the screen as result. However prepending "return" does not always result
into valid Lua code. So what we do is to exploit a common Lua community
trick of trying to compile with return prepended, and if compilation
fails then it's not an expression that can be returned, so we try again
without prepending "return". Works great apparently.
Maybe there are legitimate use cases for MIGRATE inside Lua scripts, at
least for now. When the command will be executed in an asynchronous
fashion (planned) it is possible we'll no longer be able to permit it
from within Lua scripts.
Thanks to Oran Agra (@oranagra) for reporting. Key extraction would not
work otherwise and it does not make sense to take wrong data in the
command table.
The old version only flushed data to slaves if there were strings
pending in the client->reply list. Now also static buffers are flushed.
Does not help to free memory (which is the only use we have right now in
the fuction), but is more correct conceptually, and may be used in
other contexts.
Arguments arity and arguments type error of redis.call() were not
reported correctly to Lua, so the command acted in this regard like
redis.pcall(), but just for two commands. Redis.call() should always
raise errors instead.
During the refactoring needed for lazy free, specifically the conversion
of t_hash from struct robj to plain SDS strings, HINCRBFLOAT was
accidentally moved away from long doubles to doubles for internal
processing of increments and formatting.
The diminished precision created more obvious artifacts in the way small
numbers are formatted once we convert from decimal number in radix 10 to
double and back to its string in radix 10.
By using more precision, we now have less surprising results at least
with small numbers like "1.23", exactly like in the previous versions of
Redis.
See issue #2846.
Currently this feature is only accessible via DEBUG for testing, since
otherwise depending on the instance configuration a given script works
or is broken, which is against the Redis philosophy.
By calling redis.replicate_commands(), the scripting engine of Redis
switches to commands replication instead of replicating whole scripts.
This is useful when the script execution is costly but only results in a
few writes performed to the dataset.
Morover, in this mode, it is possible to call functions with side
effects freely, since the script execution does not need to be
deterministic: anyway we'll capture the outcome from the point of view
of changes to the dataset.
In this mode math.random() returns different sequences at every call.
If redis.replicate_commnads() is not called before any other write, the
command returns false and sticks to whole scripts replication instead.
Sometimes it can be useful for clients to completely disable replies
from the Redis server. For example when the client sends fire and forget
commands or performs a mass loading of data, or in caching contexts
where new data is streamed constantly. In such contexts to use server
time and bandwidth in order to send back replies to clients, which are
going to be ignored, is a shame.
Multiple mechanisms are possible to implement such a feature. For
example it could be a feature of MULTI/EXEC, or a command prefix
such as "NOREPLY SADD myset foo", or a different mechanism that allows
to switch on/off requests using the CLIENT command.
The MULTI/EXEC approach has the problem that transactions are not
strictly part of the no-reply semantics, and if we want to insert a lot
of data in a bulk way, creating a huge MULTI/EXEC transaction in the
server memory is bad.
The prefix is the best in this specific use case since it does not allow
desynchronizations, and is pretty clear semantically. However Redis
internals and client libraries are not prepared to handle this
currently.
So the implementation uses the CLIENT command, providing a new REPLY
subcommand with three options:
CLIENT REPLY OFF disables the replies, and does not reply itself.
CLIENT REPLY ON re-enables the replies, replying +OK.
CLIENT REPLY SKIP only discards the reply of the next command, and
like OFF does not reply anything itself.
The reason to add the SKIP command is that it allows to have an easy
way to send conceptually "single" commands that don't need a reply
as the sum of two pipelined commands:
CLIENT REPLY SKIP
SET key value
Note that CLIENT REPLY ON replies with +OK so it should be used when
sending multiple commands that don't need a reply. However since it
replies with +OK the client can check that the connection is still
active and all the previous commands were received.
This is currently just into Redis "unstable" so the proposal can be
modified or abandoned based on users inputs.