nginx 1.0.12 *) Feature: the "TLSv1.1" and "TLSv1.2" parameters of the "ssl_protocols" directive. *) Feature: the "if" SSI command supports captures in regular expressions. *) Bugfix: the "if" SSI command did not work inside the "block" command. *) Bugfix: in AIO error handling on FreeBSD. *) Bugfix: in the OpenSSL library initialization. *) Bugfix: the "worker_cpu_affinity" directive might not work. *) Bugfix: the "limit_conn_log_level" and "limit_req_log_level" directives might not work. *) Bugfix: the "read_ahead" directive might not work combined with "try_files" and "open_file_cache". *) Bugfix: the "proxy_cache_use_stale" directive with "error" parameter did not return answer from cache if there were no live upstreams. *) Bugfix: a segmentation fault might occur in a worker process if small time was used in the "inactive" parameter of the "proxy_cache_path" directive. *) Bugfix: responses from cache might hang. *) Bugfix: in error handling while connecting to a backend. Thanks to Piotr Sikora. *) Bugfix: in the "epoll" event method. Thanks to Yichun Zhang. *) Bugfix: the $sent_http_cache_control variable might contain a wrong value if the "expires" directive was used. Thanks to Yichun Zhang. *) Bugfix: the "limit_rate" directive did not allow to use full throughput, even if limit value was very high. *) Bugfix: the "sendfile_max_chunk" directive did not work, if the "limit_rate" directive was used. *) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on Solaris; the bug had appeared in 1.0.11. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_scgi_module. *) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.

--- a/src/event/modules/ngx_epoll_module.c
+++ b/src/event/modules/ngx_epoll_module.c
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 
 /*
  * Copyright (C) Igor Sysoev
+ * Copyright (C) Nginx, Inc.
  */
 
 
@@ -683,6 +684,18 @@ ngx_epoll_process_events(ngx_cycle_t *cy
 
         if ((revents & EPOLLOUT) && wev->active) {
 
+            if (c->fd == -1 || wev->instance != instance) {
+
+                /*
+                 * the stale event from a file descriptor
+                 * that was just closed in this iteration
+                 */
+
+                ngx_log_debug1(NGX_LOG_DEBUG_EVENT, cycle->log, 0,
+                               "epoll: stale event %p", c);
+                continue;
+            }
+
             if (flags & NGX_POST_THREAD_EVENTS) {
                 wev->posted_ready = 1;