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<title>nginx.git/src/http/ngx_http_upstream.c, branch release-1.28.2</title>
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<title>Upstream: reinit upstream after reading bad response.</title>
<updated>2026-02-04T17:22:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roman Arutyunyan</name>
<email>arut@nginx.com</email>
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<published>2026-01-28T16:38:38+00:00</published>
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Previously, when connecting to a backend, if the read event handler was
called before the write event handler, and the received response triggered
a next upstream condition, then ngx_http_upstream_reinit() was not called
to clean up the old upstream context.  This had multiple implications.

For all proxy modules, since the last upstream response was not cleaned up,
it was mixed with the next upstream response.  This could result in ignoring
the second response status code, duplicate response headers or reporting
old upstream header errors.

With ngx_http_grpc_module and ngx_http_proxy_v2_module, ctx-&gt;connection
was left dangling since the object it referenced was allocated from the
last upstream connection pool, which was deleted when freeing last upstream.
This lead to use-after-free when trying to reuse this object for the next
upstream.
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Previously, when connecting to a backend, if the read event handler was
called before the write event handler, and the received response triggered
a next upstream condition, then ngx_http_upstream_reinit() was not called
to clean up the old upstream context.  This had multiple implications.

For all proxy modules, since the last upstream response was not cleaned up,
it was mixed with the next upstream response.  This could result in ignoring
the second response status code, duplicate response headers or reporting
old upstream header errors.

With ngx_http_grpc_module and ngx_http_proxy_v2_module, ctx-&gt;connection
was left dangling since the object it referenced was allocated from the
last upstream connection pool, which was deleted when freeing last upstream.
This lead to use-after-free when trying to reuse this object for the next
upstream.
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Upstream: detect premature plain text response from SSL backend.</title>
<updated>2026-02-04T17:22:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roman Arutyunyan</name>
<email>arut@nginx.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-29T09:27:32+00:00</published>
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When connecting to a backend, the connection write event is triggered
first in most cases.  However if a response arrives quickly enough, both
read and write events can be triggered together within the same event loop
iteration.  In this case the read event handler is called first and the
write event handler is called after it.

SSL initialization for backend connections happens only in the write event
handler since SSL handshake starts with sending Client Hello.  Previously,
if a backend sent a quick plain text response, it could be parsed by the
read event handler prior to starting SSL handshake on the connection.
The change adds protection against parsing such responses on SSL-enabled
connections.
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<pre>
When connecting to a backend, the connection write event is triggered
first in most cases.  However if a response arrives quickly enough, both
read and write events can be triggered together within the same event loop
iteration.  In this case the read event handler is called first and the
write event handler is called after it.

SSL initialization for backend connections happens only in the write event
handler since SSL handshake starts with sending Client Hello.  Previously,
if a backend sent a quick plain text response, it could be parsed by the
read event handler prior to starting SSL handshake on the connection.
The change adds protection against parsing such responses on SSL-enabled
connections.
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<entry>
<title>Upstream: overflow detection in Cache-Control delta-seconds.</title>
<updated>2025-12-23T18:40:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Kandaurov</name>
<email>pluknet@nginx.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-10T14:39:52+00:00</published>
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Overflowing calculations are now aligned to the greatest positive integer
as specified in RFC 9111, Section 1.2.2.
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<pre>
Overflowing calculations are now aligned to the greatest positive integer
as specified in RFC 9111, Section 1.2.2.
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<entry>
<title>Upstream: fixed passwords support for dynamic certificates.</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T13:27:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Kandaurov</name>
<email>pluknet@nginx.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-05T15:16:05+00:00</published>
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Passwords were not preserved in optimized SSL contexts, the bug had
appeared in d791b4aab (1.23.1), as in the following configuration:

    server {
        proxy_ssl_password_file password;
        proxy_ssl_certificate $ssl_server_name.crt;
        proxy_ssl_certificate_key $ssl_server_name.key;

        location /original/ {
            proxy_pass https://u1/;
        }

        location /optimized/ {
            proxy_pass https://u2/;
        }
    }

The fix is to always preserve passwords, by copying to the configuration
pool, if dynamic certificates are used.  This is done as part of merging
"ssl_passwords" configuration.

To minimize the number of copies, a preserved version is then used for
inheritance.  A notable exception is inheritance of preserved empty
passwords to the context with statically configured certificates:

    server {
        proxy_ssl_certificate $ssl_server_name.crt;
        proxy_ssl_certificate_key $ssl_server_name.key;

        location / {
            proxy_pass ...;

            proxy_ssl_certificate example.com.crt;
            proxy_ssl_certificate_key example.com.key;
        }
    }

In this case, an unmodified version (NULL) of empty passwords is set,
to allow reading them from the password prompt on nginx startup.

As an additional optimization, a preserved instance of inherited
configured passwords is set to the previous level, to inherit it
to other contexts:

    server {
        proxy_ssl_password_file password;

        location /1/ {
            proxy_pass https://u1/;
            proxy_ssl_certificate $ssl_server_name.crt;
            proxy_ssl_certificate_key $ssl_server_name.key;
        }

        location /2/ {
            proxy_pass https://u2/;
            proxy_ssl_certificate $ssl_server_name.crt;
            proxy_ssl_certificate_key $ssl_server_name.key;
        }
    }
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<pre>
Passwords were not preserved in optimized SSL contexts, the bug had
appeared in d791b4aab (1.23.1), as in the following configuration:

    server {
        proxy_ssl_password_file password;
        proxy_ssl_certificate $ssl_server_name.crt;
        proxy_ssl_certificate_key $ssl_server_name.key;

        location /original/ {
            proxy_pass https://u1/;
        }

        location /optimized/ {
            proxy_pass https://u2/;
        }
    }

The fix is to always preserve passwords, by copying to the configuration
pool, if dynamic certificates are used.  This is done as part of merging
"ssl_passwords" configuration.

To minimize the number of copies, a preserved version is then used for
inheritance.  A notable exception is inheritance of preserved empty
passwords to the context with statically configured certificates:

    server {
        proxy_ssl_certificate $ssl_server_name.crt;
        proxy_ssl_certificate_key $ssl_server_name.key;

        location / {
            proxy_pass ...;

            proxy_ssl_certificate example.com.crt;
            proxy_ssl_certificate_key example.com.key;
        }
    }

In this case, an unmodified version (NULL) of empty passwords is set,
to allow reading them from the password prompt on nginx startup.

As an additional optimization, a preserved instance of inherited
configured passwords is set to the previous level, to inherit it
to other contexts:

    server {
        proxy_ssl_password_file password;

        location /1/ {
            proxy_pass https://u1/;
            proxy_ssl_certificate $ssl_server_name.crt;
            proxy_ssl_certificate_key $ssl_server_name.key;
        }

        location /2/ {
            proxy_pass https://u2/;
            proxy_ssl_certificate $ssl_server_name.crt;
            proxy_ssl_certificate_key $ssl_server_name.key;
        }
    }
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Upstream: caching certificates and certificate keys with variables.</title>
<updated>2025-01-17T00:37:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Kandaurov</name>
<email>pluknet@nginx.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-29T14:20:53+00:00</published>
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Caching is enabled with proxy_ssl_certificate_cache and friends.

Co-authored-by: Aleksei Bavshin &lt;a.bavshin@nginx.com&gt;
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Caching is enabled with proxy_ssl_certificate_cache and friends.

Co-authored-by: Aleksei Bavshin &lt;a.bavshin@nginx.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>SSL: caching certificates and certificate keys with variables.</title>
<updated>2025-01-17T00:37:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Kandaurov</name>
<email>pluknet@nginx.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-29T12:25:11+00:00</published>
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A new directive "ssl_certificate_cache max=N [valid=time] [inactive=time]"
enables caching of SSL certificate chain and secret key objects specified
by "ssl_certificate" and "ssl_certificate_key" directives with variables.

Co-authored-by: Aleksei Bavshin &lt;a.bavshin@nginx.com&gt;
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A new directive "ssl_certificate_cache max=N [valid=time] [inactive=time]"
enables caching of SSL certificate chain and secret key objects specified
by "ssl_certificate" and "ssl_certificate_key" directives with variables.

Co-authored-by: Aleksei Bavshin &lt;a.bavshin@nginx.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Upstream: disallow empty path in proxy_store and friends.</title>
<updated>2024-11-25T13:37:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Kandaurov</name>
<email>pluknet@nginx.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-21T08:35:50+00:00</published>
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Renaming a temporary file to an empty path ("") returns NGX_ENOPATH
with a subsequent ngx_create_full_path() to create the full path.
This function skips initial bytes as part of path separator lookup,
which causes out of bounds access on short strings.

The fix is to avoid renaming a temporary file to an obviously invalid
path, as well as explicitly forbid such syntax for literal values.

Although Coverity reports about potential type underflow, it is not
actually possible because the terminating '\0' is always included.

Notably, the run-time check is sufficient enough for Win32 as well.
Other short invalid values result either in NGX_ENOENT or NGX_EEXIST
and "MoveFile() .. failed" critical log messages, which involves a
separate error handling.

Prodded by Coverity (CID 1605485).
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Renaming a temporary file to an empty path ("") returns NGX_ENOPATH
with a subsequent ngx_create_full_path() to create the full path.
This function skips initial bytes as part of path separator lookup,
which causes out of bounds access on short strings.

The fix is to avoid renaming a temporary file to an obviously invalid
path, as well as explicitly forbid such syntax for literal values.

Although Coverity reports about potential type underflow, it is not
actually possible because the terminating '\0' is always included.

Notably, the run-time check is sufficient enough for Win32 as well.
Other short invalid values result either in NGX_ENOENT or NGX_EEXIST
and "MoveFile() .. failed" critical log messages, which involves a
separate error handling.

Prodded by Coverity (CID 1605485).
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Upstream: per-upstream resolver.</title>
<updated>2024-11-07T15:57:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Homutov</name>
<email>vl@nginx.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-18T13:33:15+00:00</published>
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The "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives can now be specified
directly in the "upstream" block.</content>
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The "resolver" and "resolver_timeout" directives can now be specified
directly in the "upstream" block.</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Upstream: construct upstream peers from DNS SRV records.</title>
<updated>2024-11-07T15:57:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Volyntsev</name>
<email>xeioex@nginx.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-17T15:42:31+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>Upstream: re-resolvable servers.</title>
<updated>2024-11-07T15:57:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ruslan Ermilov</name>
<email>ru@nginx.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-15T11:12:34+00:00</published>
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Specifying the upstream server by a hostname together with the
"resolve" parameter will make the hostname to be periodically
resolved, and upstream servers added/removed as necessary.

This requires a "resolver" at the "http" configuration block.

The "resolver_timeout" parameter also affects when the failed
DNS requests will be attempted again.  Responses with NXDOMAIN
will be attempted again in 10 seconds.

Upstream has a configuration generation number that is incremented each
time servers are added/removed to the primary/backup list.  This number
is remembered by the peer.init method, and if peer.get detects a change
in configuration, it returns NGX_BUSY.

Each server has a reference counter.  It is incremented by peer.get and
decremented by peer.free.  When a server is removed, it is removed from
the list of servers and is marked as "zombie".  The memory allocated by
a zombie peer is freed only when its reference count becomes zero.

Co-authored-by: Roman Arutyunyan &lt;arut@nginx.com&gt;
Co-authored-by: Sergey Kandaurov &lt;pluknet@nginx.com&gt;
Co-authored-by: Vladimir Homutov &lt;vl@nginx.com&gt;</content>
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Specifying the upstream server by a hostname together with the
"resolve" parameter will make the hostname to be periodically
resolved, and upstream servers added/removed as necessary.

This requires a "resolver" at the "http" configuration block.

The "resolver_timeout" parameter also affects when the failed
DNS requests will be attempted again.  Responses with NXDOMAIN
will be attempted again in 10 seconds.

Upstream has a configuration generation number that is incremented each
time servers are added/removed to the primary/backup list.  This number
is remembered by the peer.init method, and if peer.get detects a change
in configuration, it returns NGX_BUSY.

Each server has a reference counter.  It is incremented by peer.get and
decremented by peer.free.  When a server is removed, it is removed from
the list of servers and is marked as "zombie".  The memory allocated by
a zombie peer is freed only when its reference count becomes zero.

Co-authored-by: Roman Arutyunyan &lt;arut@nginx.com&gt;
Co-authored-by: Sergey Kandaurov &lt;pluknet@nginx.com&gt;
Co-authored-by: Vladimir Homutov &lt;vl@nginx.com&gt;</pre>
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