Indexer error after upgrade to 2.3.11.3 [trial patch]

Patrik Peng patrik.peng at hostpoint.ch
Fri Nov 6 11:58:56 EET 2020


On 31.10.20 00:18, Scott Q. wrote:
> I have implemented this change and the core dumps went away.
>
> It appears so far that it's indeed the right fix.
>
> Has this change been introduced in 2.3.11.3 ?
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Tuesday, 27/10/2020 at 08:20 John Fawcett wrote:
>
>     On 22/10/2020 10:23, John Fawcett wrote:
>>     On 21/10/2020 19:00, John Fawcett wrote:
>>>     On 21/10/2020 16:44, Patrik Peng wrote:
>>>>     On 16.10.20 18:34, Patrik Peng wrote:
>>>>>     On 16.10.20 18:00, Scott Q. wrote:
>>>>>>     This reminds me, the way I was able to reproduce this
>>>>>>     consistently was by having large headers ( 100+ lines ).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     On Friday, 16/10/2020 at 11:49 Patrik Peng wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         On 19.08.20 17:37, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>         On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 17:03:57 +0200, Alessio Cecchi wrote:
>>>>>>>>         Hi,
>>>>>>>>         after the upgrade to Dovecot 2.3.11.3, from 2.3.10.1, I see frequently
>>>>>>>>         these errors from different users:
>>>>>>>         It looks like this has been around for a while and you just got unlucky and
>>>>>>>         started seeing this now.  Here's a quick & dirty patch that should fix this.
>>>>>>>         If you can try it, let us know how it went.
>>>>>>>         Jeff.
>>>>>>>         diff --git a/src/plugins/fts-solr/solr-connection.c b/src/plugins/fts-solr/solr-connection.c
>>>>>>>         index ae720b5e2870a852c1b6c440939e3c7c0fa72b5c..9d364f93e2cd1b716b9ab61bd39656a6c5b1ea04 100644
>>>>>>>         --- a/src/plugins/fts-solr/solr-connection.c
>>>>>>>         +++ b/src/plugins/fts-solr/solr-connection.c
>>>>>>>         @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ int solr_connection_init(const struct fts_solr_settings *solr_set,
>>>>>>>           		http_set.ssl = ssl_client_set;
>>>>>>>           		http_set.debug = solr_set->debug;
>>>>>>>           		http_set.rawlog_dir = solr_set->rawlog_dir;
>>>>>>>         -		solr_http_client = http_client_init(&http_set);
>>>>>>>         +		solr_http_client = http_client_init_private(&http_set);
>>>>>>>           	}
>>>>>>>           	*conn_r = conn;
>>>>>>>         diff --git a/src/plugins/fts/fts-parser-tika.c b/src/plugins/fts/fts-parser-tika.c
>>>>>>>         index a4b8b5c3034f57e22e77caa759c090da6b62f8ba..b8b57a350b9a710d101ac7ccbcc14560d415d905 100644
>>>>>>>         --- a/src/plugins/fts/fts-parser-tika.c
>>>>>>>         +++ b/src/plugins/fts/fts-parser-tika.c
>>>>>>>         @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ tika_get_http_client_url(struct mail_user *user, struct http_url **http_url_r)
>>>>>>>           		http_set.request_timeout_msecs = 60*1000;
>>>>>>>           		http_set.ssl = &ssl_set;
>>>>>>>           		http_set.debug = user->mail_debug;
>>>>>>>         -		tika_http_client = http_client_init(&http_set);
>>>>>>>         +		tika_http_client = http_client_init_private(&http_set);
>>>>>>>           	}
>>>>>>>           	*http_url_r = tuser->http_url;
>>>>>>>           	return 0;
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         Greetings
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         I'm also experiencing these issues while running Dovecot
>>>>>>         2.3.11.3 with Solr 8.6.3 on FreeBSD 11.4. As mentioned in
>>>>>>         a previous mail, the above patch is already applied to
>>>>>>         Dovecot's FreeBSD Port, confirmed by the patches being
>>>>>>         present in the portstree
>>>>>>         (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/branches/2020Q3/mail/dovecot/files/).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         In a FreeBSD VM with the official image
>>>>>>         (https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/VM-IMAGES/12.1-RELEASE/amd64/Latest/)
>>>>>>         I compiled dovecot from git and was able to reproduce the
>>>>>>         error with the patch mentioned above applied and also
>>>>>>         without any patches at all. From these results i
>>>>>>         conclude, that neither the patches applied in FreeBSDs
>>>>>>         portstree or the patch above have any influence.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         I also managed to reproduce the same results on a Debian
>>>>>>         10 machine (also with and without the patch):
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         doveadm(some.user at example.com): Panic: file http-client-request.c: line 1232 (http_client_request_send_more): assertion failed: (req->payload_input != NULL)
>>>>>>         doveadm(some.user at example.com): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so  <http://libdovecot.so>.0(backtrace_append+0x42) [0x7f093f7fc3c2]
>>>>>>         -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so  <http://libdovecot.so>.0(backtrace_get+0x1e) [0x7f093f7fc4ce] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so  <http://libdovecot.so>.0(+0xea341) [0x7f093f807341]
>>>>>>         -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so  <http://libdovecot.so>.0(+0xea381) [0x7f093f807381] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so  <http://libdovecot.so>.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7f093f75c074]
>>>>>>         -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so  <http://libdovecot.so>.0(http_client_request_send_more+0x378) [0x7f093f7a47a8]
>>>>>>         -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so  <http://libdovecot.so>.0(http_client_connection_output+0xe4) [0x7f093f7a90f4]
>>>>>>         -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libssl_iostream_openssl.so  <http://openssl.so>(+0x8bff) [0x7f093ec71bff]
>>>>>>         -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so  <http://libdovecot.so>.0(+0x1148b0) [0x7f093f8318b0]
>>>>>>         -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so  <http://libdovecot.so>.0(io_loop_call_io+0x69) [0x7f093f820259]
>>>>>>         -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so  <http://libdovecot.so>.0(io_loop_handler_run_internal+0x11b) [0x7f093f821b6b]
>>>>>>         -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so  <http://libdovecot.so>.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x59) [0x7f093f820369]
>>>>>>         -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so  <http://libdovecot.so>.0(io_loop_run+0x38) [0x7f093f820598]
>>>>>>         -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so  <http://libdovecot.so>.0(+0x86d1e) [0x7f093f7a3d1e]
>>>>>>         -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so  <http://libdovecot.so>.0(http_client_request_finish_payload+0x2e) [0x7f093f7a407e]
>>>>>>         -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so  <http://plugin.so>(solr_connection_post_end+0x32) [0x7f093b8492c2]
>>>>>>         -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so  <http://plugin.so>(+0x3a45) [0x7f093b844a45]
>>>>>>         -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so  <http://plugin.so>(+0x94cc) [0x7f093e1104cc]
>>>>>>         -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so  <http://plugin.so>(fts_backend_update_deinit+0x23) [0x7f093e110503]
>>>>>>         -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so  <http://plugin.so>(+0x10a9b) [0x7f093e117a9b]
>>>>>>         -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so  <http://plugin.so>(+0x119ca) [0x7f093e1189ca]
>>>>>>         -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so  <http://libdovecot-storage.so>.0(mailbox_transaction_commit_get_changes+0x56) [0x7f093fb16076]
>>>>>>         -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so  <http://libdovecot-storage.so>.0(mailbox_transaction_commit+0x1e) [0x7f093fb1615e]
>>>>>>         -> doveadm(+0x31370) [0x5607cfa1f370] -> doveadm(+0x2b2a8) [0x5607cfa192a8]
>>>>>>         -> doveadm(+0x2bfb2) [0x5607cfa19fb2] -> doveadm(doveadm_cmd_ver2_to_mail_cmd_wrapper+0x215) [0x5607cfa1ae05]
>>>>>>         -> doveadm(doveadm_cmd_run_ver2+0x57c) [0x5607cfa2bbec] -> doveadm(doveadm_cmd_try_run_ver2+0x37) [0x5607cfa2bc37]
>>>>>>         -> doveadm(main+0x1d2) [0x5607cfa09492]
>>>>>>         Aborted
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         During my tests I also did notice, that the error appears
>>>>>>         more often depending of mail size and amount of mails in
>>>>>>         a folder:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         Tested with: doveadm -v fts rescan -usome.user at example.com  && doveadm -v index -usome.user at example.com  '*'
>>>>>>         1 Mail in INBOX with 9KB -> Error appeared 0 out of 20 times
>>>>>>         1 Mail in INBOX with 136KB -> Error appeared 17 out of 20 times
>>>>>>         3 Mails in INBOX with 408KB -> Error appeared 12 out of 20 times
>>>>>>         20 Mails in INBOX with ~2MB -> Error appeared 0 out of 20 times
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         Maybe this info helps anyone.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         Patrik
>>>>>>
>>>>>     Yeah, I read your mail and that's why I tested with different
>>>>>     mail sizes.
>>>>>     I did some more tests, one with large headers (around 700
>>>>>     lines of a long header line) but small body:
>>>>>
>>>>>     1 Mail in INBOX with 583KB -> Error appeared 5 out of 20 times
>>>>>
>>>>>     and another with a large mail body but normal headers:
>>>>>
>>>>>     1 Mail in INBOX with 585KB -> Error appeared 0 out of 20 times
>>>>>     I guess this kinda confirms your guess, but interestingly
>>>>>     shows less errors than my previous test with a large header
>>>>>     136KB Mail.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     Patrik
>>>>>
>>>>     I did notice that changing the batch_size in
>>>>
>>>>     fts_solr = url=http://solr.example.org:8983/solr/  soft_commit=yes batch_size=1000
>>>>
>>>>     does have an influence in how often the error occurs. Setting
>>>>     it to 1 or some huge number like 10000 reduces the chances
>>>>     quite a bit but not completely and also causes lots of small ,
>>>>     or few but quite large requests to Solr, so its not a practical
>>>>     workaround.
>>>>
>>>>     Whats the current state of this bug? A fix for it would be very
>>>>     welcome, as it causes some trouble in our setup.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     Regards
>>>>
>>>     Hi
>>>
>>>     would someone care to post (preferably a link) to a test email
>>>     with which the problem can be reproduced?
>>>
>>>     thanks
>>>
>>>     Joh
>>>
>>     I can confirm that this is an error that was introduced in
>>     2.3.11.3. It did not happen on 2.3.10. I see it occurring on a
>>     Centos 7 installation compiled from source. Between these two
>>     releases I didn't see changes on the fts-solr code, but I do see
>>     some changes on the lib-http code. I suspect that the changes
>>     done on lib-http have introduced this issue.
>>
>>     One temporary solution might be to roll back the relevant commits
>>     that impacted lib-http and see if the problem resolves. Given the
>>     info in this thread about the records arriving on solr, I'm
>>     wondering if this is just a problem where the data has been split
>>     into more than one request, but the last one has no data left in it.
>>
>>     John
>>
>     Hi
>
>     I did a bit of tracing. From the albeit limited examples that I
>     saw the panic and assert segfault always happens when 
>     req->payload_finished is true. If that observation is correct in
>     general, then the patch is simple, just put the test for
>     payload_finished before the assert for payload_input and
>     payload_output. Would anyone with the problem care to try it and
>     give feedback?
>
>     diff -ur dovecot-2.3.11.3-orig/src/lib-http/http-client-request.c
>     dovecot-2.3.11.3/src/lib-http/http-client-request.c
>     --- dovecot-2.3.11.3-orig/src/lib-http/http-client-request.c
>     2020-08-12 14:20:41.000000000 +0200
>     +++ dovecot-2.3.11.3/src/lib-http/http-client-request.c 2020-10-27
>     13:06:09.352973130 +0100
>     @@ -1229,12 +1229,12 @@
>             const char *error;
>             uoff_t offset;
>
>     -       i_assert(req->payload_input != NULL);
>     -       i_assert(req->payload_output != NULL);
>     -
>             if (req->payload_finished)
>                     return http_client_request_finish_payload_out(req);
>
>     +       i_assert(req->payload_input != NULL);
>     +       i_assert(req->payload_output != NULL);
>     +
>             io_remove(&conn->io_req_payload);
>
>             /* chunked ostream needs to write to the parent stream's
>     buffer */
>
I can confirm the same behavior after applying these changes. No more 
core dumps so far.

Thanks as well :)

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