Hello!

I've noticed a request hang due to an issue in
ngx_http_gzip_filter_module's output body filter. Basically when the
downstream connection is slow to write to, a write event can trigger a
call of ngx_http_output_filter(r, NULL) but ngx_gzip's body filter
does not pass the NULL chain link to its downstream filters when its
ctx->out == NULL, leading to the downstream connection not flushed at
all and a hang.

This issue exists in both nginx 1.4.3 and 1.5.6.

The following patch fixes the test case on my side. Comments welcome!

Thanks!
-agentzh

--- nginx-1.4.3/src/http/modules/ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.c
2013-10-08 05:07:14.000000000 -0700
+++ nginx-1.4.3-patched/src/http/modules/ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.c
2013-10-25 17:00:00.712697908 -0700
@@ -433,7 +433,15 @@ ngx_http_gzip_body_filter(ngx_http_reque
if (ctx->out == NULL) {
ngx_http_gzip_filter_free_copy_buf(r, ctx);

- return ctx->busy ? NGX_AGAIN : NGX_OK;
+ if (ctx->busy) {
+ if (in == NULL) {
+ return ngx_http_next_body_filter(r, NULL);
+ }
+
+ return NGX_AGAIN;
+ }
+
+ return NGX_OK;
}

if (!ctx->gzheader) {
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