During the initial handshake with the master a slave will report to have
a very high disconnection time from its master (since technically it was
disconnected since forever, so the current UNIX time in seconds is
reported).
However when the slave is connected again the Sentinel may re-scan the
INFO output again only after 10 seconds, which is a long time. During
this time Sentinels will consider this instance unable to failover, so
a useless delay is introduced.
Actaully this hardly happened in the practice because when a slave's
master is down, the INFO period for slaves changes to 1 second. However
when a manual failover is attempted immediately after adding slaves
(like in the case of the Sentinel unit test), this problem may happen.
This commit changes the INFO period to 1 second even in the case the
slave's master is not down, but the slave reported to be disconnected
from the master (by publishing, last time we checked, a master
disconnection time field in INFO).
This change is required as a result of an unrelated change in the
replication code that adds a small delay in the master-slave first
synchronization.
This commit both fixes the crash reported with issue #3364 and
also properly closes the old links after the Sentinel address for the
other masters gets updated.
The two problems where:
1. The Sentinel that switched address may not monitor all the masters,
it is possible that there is no match, and the 'match' variable is
NULL. Now we check for no match and 'continue' to the next master.
2. By ispecting the code because of issue "1" I noticed that there was a
problem in the code that disconnects the link of the Sentinel that
needs the address update. Basically link->disconnected is non-zero
even if just *a single link* (cc -- command link or pc -- pubsub
link) are disconnected, so to check with if (link->disconnected)
in order to close the links risks to leave one link connected.
I was able to manually reproduce the crash at "1" and verify that the
commit resolves the issue.
Close#3364.
This bug most experienced effect was an inability of Redis to
reconfigure back old masters to slaves after they are reachable again
after a failover. This was due to failing to reset the count of the
pending commands properly, so the master appeared fovever down.
Was introduced in Redis 3.2 new Sentinel connection sharing feature
which is a lot more complex than the 3.0 code, but more scalable.
Many thanks to people reporting the issue, and especially to
@sskorgal for investigating the issue in depth.
Hopefully closes#3285.
Fix a possible race condition of sdown event detection if sentinel's connection to master/slave/sentinel became disconnected just after the last PONG and before the next PING.
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.
We have a check to rewrite the config properly when a failover is in
progress, in order to add the current (already failed over) master as
slave, and don't include in the slave list the promoted slave itself.
However there was an issue, the variable with the right address was
computed but never used when the code was modified, and no tests are
available for this feature for two reasons:
1. The Sentinel unit test currently does not test Sentinel ability to
persist its state at all.
2. It is a very hard to trigger state since it lasts for little time in
the context of the testing framework.
However this feature should be covered in the test in some way.
The bug was found by @badboy using the clang static analyzer.
Effects of the bug on safety of Sentinel
===
This bug results in severe issues in the following case:
1. A Sentinel is elected leader.
2. During the failover, it persists a wrong config with a known-slave
entry listing the master address.
3. The Sentinel crashes and restarts, reading invalid configuration from
disk.
4. It sees that the slave now does not obey the logical configuration
(should replicate from the current master), so it sends a SLAVEOF
command to the master (since the slave master is the same) creating a
replication loop (attempt to replicate from itself) which Redis is
currently unable to detect.
5. This means that the master is no longer available because of the bug.
However the lack of availability should be only transient (at least
in my tests, but other states could be possible where the problem
is not recovered automatically) because:
6. Sentinels treat masters reporting to be slaves as failing.
7. A new failover is triggered, and a slave is promoted to master.
Bug lifetime
===
The bug is there forever. Commit 16237d78 actually tried to fix the bug
but in the wrong way (the computed variable was never used! My fault).
So this bug is there basically since the start of Sentinel.
Since the bug is hard to trigger, I remember little reports matching
this condition, but I remember at least a few. Also in automated tests
where instances were stopped and restarted multiple times automatically
I remember hitting this issue, however I was not able to reproduce nor
to determine with the information I had at the time what was causing the
issue.
The PING trigger was improved again by using two fields instead of a
single one to remember when the last ping was sent:
1. The "active" ping is the time at which we sent the last ping that
still received no reply. However we continue to ping non replying
instances even if they have an old active ping: the link may be
disconnected and reconencted in the meantime so the older pings may get
lost even if it's a TCP socket.
2. The "last" ping is the time at which we really sent the last ping
on the wire, and this is used in order to throttle the amount of pings
we send during failures (when no pong is received).
All in all the failure detector effectiveness should be identical but we
avoid to flood instances with pings during failures or when they are
slow.
It's ok to ping as soon as the ping period has elapsed since we received
the last PONG, but it's not good that we ping again if there is a
pending ping... With this change we'll send a new ping if there is one
pending only if two times the ping period elapsed since the ping which
is still pending was sent.
This is useful for debugging and logging activities: given a
sentinelRedisInstance object returns a C string representing the
instance type: master, slave, sentinel.
This new command triggers a config flush to save the in-memory config to
disk. This is useful for cases of a configuration management system or a
package manager wiping out your sentinel config while the process is
still running - and has not yet been restarted. It can also be useful
for scripting a backup and migrate or clone of a running sentinel.
Since with a previous commit Sentinels now persist their unique ID, we
no longer need to detect duplicated Sentinels and re-add them. We remove
and re-add back using different events only in the case of address
switch of the same Sentinel, without generating a new +sentinel event.
Previously Sentinels always changed unique ID across restarts, relying
on the server.runid field. This is not a good idea, and forced Sentinel
to rely on detection of duplicated Sentinels and a potentially dangerous
clean-up and re-add operation of the Sentinel instance that was
rebooted.
Now the ID is generated at the first start and persisted in the
configuration file, so that a given Sentinel will have its unique
ID forever (unless the configuration is manually deleted or there is a
filesystem corruption).
