This is a follow-up fix to #12733. We need to apply the same changes to
delKeysInSlot. Refer to #12733 for more details.
This PR contains some other minor cleanups / improvements to the test
suite and docs.
It uses the postnotifications test module in a cluster mode test which
revealed a leak in the test module (fixed).
Warning:
```
postnotifications.c:216:77: warning: format specifies type 'long' but the argument has type 'uint64_t' (aka 'unsigned long long') [-Wformat]
RedisModule_Log(ctx, "warning", "Got an unexpected subevent '%ld'", subevent);
~~~ ^~~~~~~~
%llu
```
CI:
https://github.com/redis/redis/actions/runs/6937308713/job/18871124342#step:6:115
## Other
Add `CFLAGS=-Werror` flag for module CI.
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Co-authored-by: Viktor Söderqvist <viktor.soderqvist@est.tech>
Redis 7.2 (#9406) introduced a new modules event, `RedisModuleEvent_Key`.
This new event allows the module to read the key data just before it is removed
from the database (either deleted, expired, evicted, or overwritten).
When the key is removed from the database, either by active expire or eviction.
The new event was not called as part of an execution unit. This can cause an
issue if the module registers a post notification job inside the event. This job will
not be executed atomically with the expiration/eviction operation and will not
replicated inside a Multi/Exec. Moreover, the post notification job will be executed
right after the event where it is still not safe to perform any write operation, this will
violate the promise that post notification job will be called atomically with the
operation that triggered it and **only when it is safe to write**.
This PR fixes the issue by wrapping each expiration/eviction of a key with an execution
unit. This makes sure the entire operation will run atomically and all the post notification
jobs will be executed at the end where it is safe to write.
Tests were modified to verify the fix.
### Summary of API additions
* `RedisModule_AddPostNotificationJob` - new API to call inside a key space
notification (and on more locations in the future) and allow to add a post job as describe above.
* New module option, `REDISMODULE_OPTIONS_ALLOW_NESTED_KEYSPACE_NOTIFICATIONS`,
allows to disable Redis protection of nested key-space notifications.
* `RedisModule_GetModuleOptionsAll` - gets the mask of all supported module options so a module
will be able to check if a given option is supported by the current running Redis instance.
### Background
The following PR is a proposal of handling write operations inside module key space notifications.
After a lot of discussions we came to a conclusion that module should not perform any write
operations on key space notification.
Some examples of issues that such write operation can cause are describe on the following links:
* Bad replication oreder - https://github.com/redis/redis/pull/10969
* Used after free - https://github.com/redis/redis/pull/10969#issuecomment-1223771006
* Used after free - https://github.com/redis/redis/pull/9406#issuecomment-1221684054
There are probably more issues that are yet to be discovered. The underline problem with writing
inside key space notification is that the notification runs synchronously, this means that the notification
code will be executed in the middle on Redis logic (commands logic, eviction, expire).
Redis **do not assume** that the data might change while running the logic and such changes
can crash Redis or cause unexpected behaviour.
The solution is to state that modules **should not** perform any write command inside key space
notification (we can chose whether or not we want to force it). To still cover the use-case where
module wants to perform a write operation as a reaction to key space notifications, we introduce
a new API , `RedisModule_AddPostNotificationJob`, that allows to register a callback that will be
called by Redis when the following conditions hold:
* It is safe to perform any write operation.
* The job will be called atomically along side the operation that triggers it (in our case, key
space notification).
Module can use this new API to safely perform any write operation and still achieve atomicity
between the notification and the write.
Although currently the API is supported on key space notifications, the API is written in a generic
way so that in the future we will be able to use it on other places (server events for example).
### Technical Details
Whenever a module uses `RedisModule_AddPostNotificationJob` the callback is added to a list
of callbacks (called `modulePostExecUnitJobs`) that need to be invoke after the current execution
unit ends (whether its a command, eviction, or active expire). In order to trigger those callback
atomically with the notification effect, we call those callbacks on `postExecutionUnitOperations`
(which was `propagatePendingCommands` before this PR). The new function fires the post jobs
and then calls `propagatePendingCommands`.
If the callback perform more operations that triggers more key space notifications. Those keys
space notifications might register more callbacks. Those callbacks will be added to the end
of `modulePostExecUnitJobs` list and will be invoke atomically after the current callback ends.
This raises a concerns of entering an infinite loops, we consider infinite loops as a logical bug
that need to be fixed in the module, an attempt to protect against infinite loops by halting the
execution could result in violation of the feature correctness and so **Redis will make no attempt
to protect the module from infinite loops**
In addition, currently key space notifications are not nested. Some modules might want to allow
nesting key-space notifications. To allow that and keep backward compatibility, we introduce a
new module option called `REDISMODULE_OPTIONS_ALLOW_NESTED_KEYSPACE_NOTIFICATIONS`.
Setting this option will disable the Redis key-space notifications nesting protection and will
pass this responsibility to the module.
### Redis infrastructure
This PR promotes the existing `propagatePendingCommands` to an "Execution Unit" concept,
which is called after each atomic unit of execution,
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
Co-authored-by: Yossi Gottlieb <yossigo@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Madelyn Olson <34459052+madolson@users.noreply.github.com>