Bug 674102

Summary:	prefork children in keepalive do not exit on graceful
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Martin Poole <mpoole>
Component:	httpd	Assignee:	Joe Orton <jorton>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version:	5.6	CC:	Colin.Simpson, cww, ebenes
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Description Martin Poole 2011-01-31 16:39:27 UTC

Description of problem:

In prefork mode with 

 KeepAlive on
 KeepAliveTimeout 60
 KeepAliveMaxRequests 0


after being signalled with USR1 (graceful) any processes with live keepalive connections fail to stop.

Further details covered in upstream bug

  https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41743

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

httpd-2.2.3-43.el5_5.3

How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  See upstream for details.


Additional info:

No visible patch yet, but I would hazard it requires

  return is_graceful;

in the ap_graceful_stop_signalled function in prefork/prefork.c

Comment 18 errata-xmlrpc 2011-07-21 08:52:36 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1067.html

Comment 19 errata-xmlrpc 2011-07-21 11:48:06 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1067.html