REQMOD stuck when adapted request (body) is not forwarded #1966
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Squid forwards request bodies using BodyPipe objects. A BodyPipe object
has two associated agents: producer and consumer. Those agents are set
independently, at different processing stages. If BodyPipe consumer is
not set, the producer may get stuck waiting for BodyPipe buffer space.
When producer creates a BodyPipe, it effectively relies on some code
somewhere to register a consumer (or declare a registration failure),
but automatically tracking that expectation fulfillment is impractical.
For REQMOD transactions involving adapted request bodies, including ICAP
204 transactions, Client::startRequestBodyFlow() sets body consumer. If
that method is not called, there will be no consumer, and REQMOD may get
stuck. Many
if
statements can block request forwarding altogether orblock a being-forwarded request from reaching that method. For example,
adapted_http_access and miss_access denials block request forwarding.
Without REQMOD, request processing can probably get stuck for similar
lack-of-consumer reasons, but regular requests ought to be killed by
various I/O or forwarding timeouts. There are no such timeouts for those
REQMOD transactions that are only waiting for request body consumer to
clear adapted BodyPipe space (e.g., after all ICAP 204 I/Os are over).
Relying on timeouts is also very inefficient.
For a
mgr:mem
observer, stuck REQMOD transactions look like a ModXactmemory leak. A
mgr:jobs
report shows ModXact jobs with RBS(1) status.