Normally ZADD only returns the number of elements added to a sorted
set, using the RETCH option it returns the sum of elements added or
for which the score was updated.
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.
Originally, only the +slave event which occurs when a slave is
reconfigured during sentinelResetMasterAndChangeAddress triggers a flush
of the config to disk. However, newly discovered slaves don't
apparently trigger this flush but do trigger the +slave event issuance.
So if you start up a sentinel, add a master, then add a slave to the
master (as a way to reproduce it) you'll see the +slave event issued,
but the sentinel config won't be updated with the known-slave entry.
This change makes sentinel do the flush of the config if a new slave is
deteted in sentinelRefreshInstanceInfo.
To rewrite the config in the loop that adds slaves back after a master
reset, in order to handle switching to another master, is useless: it
just adds latency since there is an fsync call in the inner loop,
without providing any additional guarantee, but the contrary, since if
after the first loop iteration the server crashes we end with just a
single slave entry losing all the other informations.
It is wiser to rewrite the config at the end when the full new
state is configured.
This fixes issue #2535, that was actually an hiredis library bug (I
submitted an issue and fix to the redis/hiredis repo as well).
When an asynchronous hiredis connection subscribes to a Pub/Sub channel
and gets an error, and in other related conditions, the function
redisProcessCallbacks() enters a code path where the link is
disconnected, however the function returns before freeing the allocated
reply object. This causes a memory leak. The memory leak was trivial to
trigger in Redis Sentinel, which uses hiredis, every time we tried to
subscribe to an instance that required a password, in case the Sentinel
was configured either with the wrong password or without password at
all. In this case, the -AUTH error caused the leaking code path to be
executed.
It was verified with Valgrind that after this change the leak no longer
happens in Sentinel with a misconfigured authentication password.
When we fail to setup the write handler it does not make sense to take
the client around, it is missing writes: whatever is a client or a slave
anyway the connection should terminated ASAP.
Moreover what the function does exactly with its return value, and in
which case the write handler is installed on the socket, was not clear,
so the functions comment are improved to make the goals of the function
more obvious.
Also related to #2485.
master was closing the connection if the RDB transfer took long time.
and also sent PINGs to the slave before it got the initial ACK, in which case the slave wouldn't be able to find the EOF marker.
rehashidx is always positive in the two code paths, since the only
negative value it could have is -1 when there is no rehashing in
progress, and the condition is explicitly checked.
Bug as old as Redis and blocking operations. It's hard to trigger since
only happens on instance role switch, but the results are quite bad
since an inconsistency between master and slave is created.
How to trigger the bug is a good description of the bug itself.
1. Client does "BLPOP mylist 0" in master.
2. Master is turned into slave, that replicates from New-Master.
3. Client does "LPUSH mylist foo" in New-Master.
4. New-Master propagates write to slave.
5. Slave receives the LPUSH, the blocked client get served.
Now Master "mylist" key has "foo", Slave "mylist" key is empty.
Highlights:
* At step "2" above, the client remains attached, basically escaping any
check performed during command dispatch: read only slave, in that case.
* At step "5" the slave (that was the master), serves the blocked client
consuming a list element, which is not consumed on the master side.
This scenario is technically likely to happen during failovers, however
since Redis Sentinel already disconnects clients using the CLIENT
command when changing the role of the instance, the bug is avoided in
Sentinel deployments.
Closes#2473.
There was a bug in Redis Cluster caused by clients blocked in a blocking
list pop operation, for keys no longer handled by the instance, or
in a condition where the cluster became down after the client blocked.
A typical situation is:
1) BLPOP <somekey> 0
2) <somekey> hash slot is resharded to another master.
The client will block forever int this case.
A symmentrical non-cluster-specific bug happens when an instance is
turned from master to slave. In that case it is more serious since this
will desynchronize data between slaves and masters. This other bug was
discovered as a side effect of thinking about the bug explained and
fixed in this commit, but will be fixed in a separated commit.
