Upstream: fixed X-Accel-Redirect handling from cache files. The X-Accel-Redirect header might appear in cache files if its handling is ignored with the "proxy_ignore_headers" directive. If the cache file is later served with different settings, ngx_http_upstream_process_headers() used to call ngx_http_upstream_finalize_request(NGX_DECLINED), which is not expected to happen before the cleanup handler is installed and resulted in ngx_http_finalize_request(NGX_DONE) (after 5994:5abf5af257a7, nginx 1.7.11), leading to unexpected request counter decrement, "request count is zero" alerts, and segmentation faults. Similarly, errors in ngx_http_upstream_process_headers() resulted in ngx_http_upstream_finalize_request(NGX_HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR) being called. This is also not expected to happen before the cleanup handler is installed, and resulted in ngx_http_finalize_request(NGX_DONE) without proper request finalization. Fix is to avoid calling ngx_http_upstream_finalize_request() from ngx_http_upstream_process_headers(), notably when the cleanup handler is not yet installed. Errors are now simply return NGX_ERROR, so the caller is responsible for proper finalization by calling either ngx_http_finalize_request() or ngx_http_upstream_finalize_request(). And X-Accel-Redirect handling now does not call ngx_http_upstream_finalize_request(NGX_DECLINED) if no cleanup handler is installed. Reported by Jiří Setnička (https://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2024-February/HWLYHOO3DDB3XTFT6X3GRMXIEJ3SJRUA.html).

/*
 * Copyright (C) Igor Sysoev
 * Copyright (C) Nginx, Inc.
 */


#include <ngx_config.h>
#include <ngx_core.h>


ngx_list_t *
ngx_list_create(ngx_pool_t *pool, ngx_uint_t n, size_t size)
{
    ngx_list_t  *list;

    list = ngx_palloc(pool, sizeof(ngx_list_t));
    if (list == NULL) {
        return NULL;
    }

    if (ngx_list_init(list, pool, n, size) != NGX_OK) {
        return NULL;
    }

    return list;
}


void *
ngx_list_push(ngx_list_t *l)
{
    void             *elt;
    ngx_list_part_t  *last;

    last = l->last;

    if (last->nelts == l->nalloc) {

        /* the last part is full, allocate a new list part */

        last = ngx_palloc(l->pool, sizeof(ngx_list_part_t));
        if (last == NULL) {
            return NULL;
        }

        last->elts = ngx_palloc(l->pool, l->nalloc * l->size);
        if (last->elts == NULL) {
            return NULL;
        }

        last->nelts = 0;
        last->next = NULL;

        l->last->next = last;
        l->last = last;
    }

    elt = (char *) last->elts + l->size * last->nelts;
    last->nelts++;

    return elt;
}