Allow Pub/Sub in contexts where other commands are blocked.

Redis loading data from disk, and a Redis slave disconnected from its
master with serve-stale-data disabled, are two conditions where
commands are normally refused by Redis, returning an error.

However there is no reason to disable Pub/Sub commands as well, given
that this layer does not interact with the dataset. To allow Pub/Sub in
as many contexts as possible is especially interesting now that Redis
Sentinel uses Pub/Sub of a Redis master as a communication channel
between Sentinels.

This commit allows Pub/Sub to be used in the above two contexts where
it was previously denied.

src/redis.c

@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ struct redisCommand *commandTable;
  *    results. For instance SPOP and RANDOMKEY are two random commands.
  * S: Sort command output array if called from script, so that the output
  *    is deterministic.
+ * l: Allow command while loading the database.
+ * t: Allow command while a slave has stale data but is not allowed to
+ *    server this data. Normally no command is accepted in this condition
+ *    but just a few.
  */
 struct redisCommand redisCommandTable[] = {
     {"get",getCommand,2,"r",0,NULL,1,1,1,0,0},
@@ -219,19 +223,19 @@ struct redisCommand redisCommandTable[] = {
     {"flushdb",flushdbCommand,1,"w",0,NULL,0,0,0,0,0},
     {"flushall",flushallCommand,1,"w",0,NULL,0,0,0,0,0},
     {"sort",sortCommand,-2,"wmS",0,NULL,1,1,1,0,0},
-    {"info",infoCommand,-1,"r",0,NULL,0,0,0,0,0},
+    {"info",infoCommand,-1,"rlt",0,NULL,0,0,0,0,0},
     {"monitor",monitorCommand,1,"ars",0,NULL,0,0,0,0,0},
     {"ttl",ttlCommand,2,"r",0,NULL,1,1,1,0,0},
     {"pttl",pttlCommand,2,"r",0,NULL,1,1,1,0,0},
     {"persist",persistCommand,2,"w",0,NULL,1,1,1,0,0},
-    {"slaveof",slaveofCommand,3,"as",0,NULL,0,0,0,0,0},
+    {"slaveof",slaveofCommand,3,"ast",0,NULL,0,0,0,0,0},
     {"debug",debugCommand,-2,"as",0,NULL,0,0,0,0,0},
     {"config",configCommand,-2,"ar",0,NULL,0,0,0,0,0},
-    {"subscribe",subscribeCommand,-2,"rps",0,NULL,0,0,0,0,0},
+    {"subscribe",subscribeCommand,-2,"rpslt",0,NULL,0,0,0,0,0},
-    {"unsubscribe",unsubscribeCommand,-1,"rps",0,NULL,0,0,0,0,0},
+    {"unsubscribe",unsubscribeCommand,-1,"rpslt",0,NULL,0,0,0,0,0},
-    {"psubscribe",psubscribeCommand,-2,"rps",0,NULL,0,0,0,0,0},
+    {"psubscribe",psubscribeCommand,-2,"rpslt",0,NULL,0,0,0,0,0},
-    {"punsubscribe",punsubscribeCommand,-1,"rps",0,NULL,0,0,0,0,0},
+    {"punsubscribe",punsubscribeCommand,-1,"rpslt",0,NULL,0,0,0,0,0},
-    {"publish",publishCommand,3,"pf",0,NULL,0,0,0,0,0},
+    {"publish",publishCommand,3,"pflt",0,NULL,0,0,0,0,0},
     {"watch",watchCommand,-2,"rs",0,noPreloadGetKeys,1,-1,1,0,0},
     {"unwatch",unwatchCommand,1,"rs",0,NULL,0,0,0,0,0},
     {"cluster",clusterCommand,-2,"ar",0,NULL,0,0,0,0,0},
@@ -1381,6 +1385,8 @@ void populateCommandTable(void) {
             case 's': c->flags |= REDIS_CMD_NOSCRIPT; break;
             case 'R': c->flags |= REDIS_CMD_RANDOM; break;
             case 'S': c->flags |= REDIS_CMD_SORT_FOR_SCRIPT; break;
+            case 'l': c->flags |= REDIS_CMD_LOADING; break;
+            case 't': c->flags |= REDIS_CMD_STALE; break;
             default: redisPanic("Unsupported command flag"); break;
             }
             f++;
@@ -1622,7 +1628,7 @@ int processCommand(redisClient *c) {
         return REDIS_OK;
     }
 
-    /* Don't accept wirte commands if this is a read only slave. But
+    /* Don't accept write commands if this is a read only slave. But
      * accept write commands if this is our master. */
     if (server.masterhost && server.repl_slave_ro &&
         !(c->flags & REDIS_MASTER) &&
@@ -1647,19 +1653,20 @@ int processCommand(redisClient *c) {
      * we are a slave with a broken link with master. */
     if (server.masterhost && server.repl_state != REDIS_REPL_CONNECTED &&
         server.repl_serve_stale_data == 0 &&
-        c->cmd->proc != infoCommand && c->cmd->proc != slaveofCommand)
+        !(c->cmd->flags & REDIS_CMD_STALE))
     {
         addReply(c, shared.masterdownerr);
         return REDIS_OK;
     }
 
-    /* Loading DB? Return an error if the command is not INFO */
+    /* Loading DB? Return an error if the command has not the
-    if (server.loading && c->cmd->proc != infoCommand) {
+     * REDIS_CMD_LOADING flag. */
+    if (server.loading && !(c->cmd->flags & REDIS_CMD_LOADING)) {
         addReply(c, shared.loadingerr);
         return REDIS_OK;
     }
 
-    /* Lua script too slow? Only allow SHUTDOWN NOSAVE and SCRIPT KILL. */
+    /* Lua script too slow? Only allow commands with REDIS_CMD_STALE flag. */
     if (server.lua_timedout &&
         !(c->cmd->proc == shutdownCommand &&
           c->argc == 2 &&

src/redis.h

@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@
 #define REDIS_CMD_NOSCRIPT  64              /* "s" flag */
 #define REDIS_CMD_RANDOM 128                /* "R" flag */
 #define REDIS_CMD_SORT_FOR_SCRIPT 256       /* "S" flag */
+#define REDIS_CMD_LOADING 512               /* "l" flag */
+#define REDIS_CMD_STALE 1024                /* "t" flag */
 
 /* Object types */
 #define REDIS_STRING 0