Bug 45986

Summary: [info]...Invalid argument: core_output_filter: writing data to the network
Product: Apache httpd-2 Reporter: Danijel Tasov <danielt>
Component: CoreAssignee: Apache HTTPD Bugs Mailing List <bugs>
Status: RESOLVED LATER    
Severity: normal Keywords: MassUpdate
Priority: P2    
Version: 2.0.63   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   

Description Danijel Tasov 2008-10-10 08:24:43 UTC
Hello,

today, I was debugging a CGI application, which after logging in, writes
some HTML data to the document root and redirects the client to it.

But the redirection was not successful, the request was answered with a
closed connection. The entire response was missing.

Since this runs on a clustered environment (DocumentRoot is shared over
NFS), I thought this was an NFS problem, because I could receive the
content on the second server. Long story short, I was off the track.

After I set the LogLevel to debug the following message appeared in the
ErrorLog:

  [info] [client 160.xx.xx.xx] (22)Invalid argument: core_output_filter: writing data to the network

I grepped the httpd source for this message to get an idea what's going
on here and found the FAQ entry. EnableSendfile Off, everything is fine
now.

But I really think that this should be at least an error instead of an
info. httpd was not able to send the response, this is worse than "file
not found" which is logged as an error.

Here is the patch:
--- server/core.c.orig  2006-07-12 09:40:55.000000000 +0200
+++ server/core.c       2008-10-10 17:21:36.000000000 +0200
@@ -4327,7 +4327,7 @@
         }
 
         if (rv != APR_SUCCESS) {
-            ap_log_cerror(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_INFO, rv, c,
+            ap_log_cerror(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_ERR, rv, c,
                           "core_output_filter: writing data to the network");
 
             if (more)

Regards,
Danijel
Comment 1 Eric Covener 2008-10-10 08:47:45 UTC
I'd rather see it trap the specific errno, because this looks like the same path as a host of normal client issues which I don't agree should be loglevel error.
Comment 2 Danijel Tasov 2008-10-21 12:15:47 UTC
Hm, I see the problem. I agree with Marc.

       EAGAIN Non-blocking I/O has been  selected  using  O_NONBLOCK  and  the
              write would block.

       EBADF  The input file was not opened for reading or the output file was
              not opened for writing.

       EFAULT Bad address.

       EINVAL Descriptor is not valid or locked, or an mmap(2)-like  operation
              is not available for in_fd.

       EIO    Unspecified error while reading from in_fd.

       ENOMEM Insufficient memory to read from in_fd.

This are the errors sendfile could raise. At least an error should be
logged, if sendfile raises EIO, ENOMEN or EINVAL

I'm not sure about about EFAULT, EBADF and EGAIN.
Comment 3 Eric Covener 2008-10-22 06:45:29 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Hm, I see the problem. I agree with Marc.

> This are the errors sendfile could raise. At least an error should be
> logged, if sendfile raises EIO, ENOMEN or EINVAL


This log message is not sendfile-specific, though.
Comment 4 William A. Rowe Jr. 2018-11-07 21:09:58 UTC
Please help us to refine our list of open and current defects; this is a mass update of old and inactive Bugzilla reports which reflect user error, already resolved defects, and still-existing defects in httpd.

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