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When using TCP health checks (tcp-check connect), it is possible to crash with a segfault when, for reasons yet to be understood, the protocol family is unknown. In the function tcpcheck_main(), proto is dereferenced without a prior test in case it is NULL, leading to the segfault during proto->connect dereference. The line has been unmodified since it was introduced, in commit 69e273f3fcfbfb9cc0fb5a09668faad66cfbd36b. This was the only use of proto (or more specifically, the return of protocol_by_family()) that was unprotected; all other callsites perform the test for a NULL pointer. This patch should be backported to 1.9, 1.8, 1.7, and 1.6.
The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for : - INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy - LICENSE for the project's license - CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory : - doc/intro.txt for a quick introduction on HAProxy - doc/configuration.txt for the configuration's reference manual - doc/lua.txt for the Lua's reference manual - doc/SPOE.txt for how to use the SPOE engine - doc/network-namespaces.txt for how to use network namespaces under Linux - doc/management.txt for the management guide - doc/regression-testing.txt for how to use the regression testing suite - doc/peers.txt for the peers protocol reference - doc/coding-style.txt for how to adopt HAProxy's coding style - doc/internals for developer-specific documentation (not all up to date)