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  • Bug fixes for general core bugs in 4.3.x will end 7 October 2024 (12 months).
  • Bug fixes for security issues in 4.3.x will end 21 April 2025 (18 months).
  • PHP version: minimum PHP 8.0.0 Note: minimum PHP version has increased since Moodle 4.1. PHP 8.2.x is supported too.

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   1  <?php
   2  // This file is part of Moodle - http://moodle.org/
   3  //
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  15  // along with Moodle.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  16  
  17  /**
  18   * Redis based session handler.
  19   *
  20   * @package    core
  21   * @copyright  2015 Russell Smith <mr-russ@smith2001.net>
  22   * @license    http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later
  23   */
  24  
  25  namespace core\session;
  26  
  27  use RedisException;
  28  
  29  defined('MOODLE_INTERNAL') || die();
  30  
  31  /**
  32   * Redis based session handler.
  33   *
  34   * The default Redis session handler does not handle locking in 2.2.7, so we have written a php session handler
  35   * that uses locking.  The places where locking is used was modeled from the memcached code that is used in Moodle
  36   * https://github.com/php-memcached-dev/php-memcached/blob/master/php_memcached_session.c
  37   *
  38   * @package    core
  39   * @copyright  2016 Russell Smith
  40   * @license    http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later
  41   */
  42  class redis extends handler {
  43      /**
  44       * Compressor: none.
  45       */
  46      const COMPRESSION_NONE      = 'none';
  47      /**
  48       * Compressor: PHP GZip.
  49       */
  50      const COMPRESSION_GZIP      = 'gzip';
  51      /**
  52       * Compressor: PHP Zstandard.
  53       */
  54      const COMPRESSION_ZSTD      = 'zstd';
  55  
  56      /** @var string $host save_path string  */
  57      protected $host = '';
  58      /** @var int $port The port to connect to */
  59      protected $port = 6379;
  60      /** @var array $sslopts SSL options, if applicable */
  61      protected $sslopts = [];
  62      /** @var string $auth redis password  */
  63      protected $auth = '';
  64      /** @var int $database the Redis database to store sesions in */
  65      protected $database = 0;
  66      /** @var array $servers list of servers parsed from save_path */
  67      protected $prefix = '';
  68      /** @var int $acquiretimeout how long to wait for session lock in seconds */
  69      protected $acquiretimeout = 120;
  70      /** @var int $acquirewarn how long before warning when waiting for a lock in seconds */
  71      protected $acquirewarn = null;
  72      /** @var int $lockretry how long to wait between session lock attempts in ms */
  73      protected $lockretry = 100;
  74      /** @var int $serializer The serializer to use */
  75      protected $serializer = \Redis::SERIALIZER_PHP;
  76      /** @var int $compressor The compressor to use */
  77      protected $compressor = self::COMPRESSION_NONE;
  78      /** @var string $lasthash hash of the session data content */
  79      protected $lasthash = null;
  80  
  81      /**
  82       * @var int $lockexpire how long to wait in seconds before expiring the lock automatically
  83       * so that other requests may continue execution, ignored if PECL redis is below version 2.2.0.
  84       */
  85      protected $lockexpire;
  86  
  87      /** @var Redis Connection */
  88      protected $connection = null;
  89  
  90      /** @var array $locks List of currently held locks by this page. */
  91      protected $locks = array();
  92  
  93      /** @var int $timeout How long sessions live before expiring. */
  94      protected $timeout;
  95  
  96      /**
  97       * Create new instance of handler.
  98       */
  99      public function __construct() {
 100          global $CFG;
 101  
 102          if (isset($CFG->session_redis_host)) {
 103              $this->host = $CFG->session_redis_host;
 104          }
 105  
 106          if (isset($CFG->session_redis_port)) {
 107              $this->port = (int)$CFG->session_redis_port;
 108          }
 109  
 110          if (isset($CFG->session_redis_encrypt) && $CFG->session_redis_encrypt) {
 111              $this->host = 'tls://' . $this->host;
 112              $this->sslopts = $CFG->session_redis_encrypt;
 113          }
 114  
 115          if (isset($CFG->session_redis_auth)) {
 116              $this->auth = $CFG->session_redis_auth;
 117          }
 118  
 119          if (isset($CFG->session_redis_database)) {
 120              $this->database = (int)$CFG->session_redis_database;
 121          }
 122  
 123          if (isset($CFG->session_redis_prefix)) {
 124              $this->prefix = $CFG->session_redis_prefix;
 125          }
 126  
 127          if (isset($CFG->session_redis_acquire_lock_timeout)) {
 128              $this->acquiretimeout = (int)$CFG->session_redis_acquire_lock_timeout;
 129          }
 130  
 131          if (isset($CFG->session_redis_acquire_lock_warn)) {
 132              $this->acquirewarn = (int)$CFG->session_redis_acquire_lock_warn;
 133          }
 134  
 135          if (isset($CFG->session_redis_acquire_lock_retry)) {
 136              $this->lockretry = (int)$CFG->session_redis_acquire_lock_retry;
 137          }
 138  
 139          if (!empty($CFG->session_redis_serializer_use_igbinary) && defined('\Redis::SERIALIZER_IGBINARY')) {
 140              $this->serializer = \Redis::SERIALIZER_IGBINARY; // Set igbinary serializer if phpredis supports it.
 141          }
 142  
 143          // The following configures the session lifetime in redis to allow some
 144          // wriggle room in the user noticing they've been booted off and
 145          // letting them log back in before they lose their session entirely.
 146          $updatefreq = empty($CFG->session_update_timemodified_frequency) ? 20 : $CFG->session_update_timemodified_frequency;
 147          $this->timeout = $CFG->sessiontimeout + $updatefreq + MINSECS;
 148  
 149          // This sets the Redis session lock expiry time to whatever is lower, either
 150          // the PHP execution time `max_execution_time`, if the value was defined in
 151          // the `php.ini` or the globally configured `sessiontimeout`. Setting it to
 152          // the lower of the two will not make things worse it if the execution timeout
 153          // is longer than the session timeout.
 154          // For the PHP execution time, once the PHP execution time is over, we can be sure
 155          // that the lock is no longer actively held so that the lock can expire safely.
 156          // Although at `lib/classes/php_time_limit.php::raise(int)`, Moodle can
 157          // progressively increase the maximum PHP execution time, this is limited to the
 158          // `max_execution_time` value defined in the `php.ini`.
 159          // For the session timeout, we assume it is safe to consider the lock to expire
 160          // once the session itself expires.
 161          // If we unnecessarily hold the lock any longer, it blocks other session requests.
 162          $this->lockexpire = ini_get('max_execution_time');
 163          if (empty($this->lockexpire) || ($this->lockexpire > (int)$CFG->sessiontimeout)) {
 164              $this->lockexpire = (int)$CFG->sessiontimeout;
 165          }
 166          if (isset($CFG->session_redis_lock_expire)) {
 167              $this->lockexpire = (int)$CFG->session_redis_lock_expire;
 168          }
 169  
 170          if (isset($CFG->session_redis_compressor)) {
 171              $this->compressor = $CFG->session_redis_compressor;
 172          }
 173      }
 174  
 175      /**
 176       * Start the session.
 177       *
 178       * @return bool success
 179       */
 180      public function start() {
 181          $result = parent::start();
 182  
 183          return $result;
 184      }
 185  
 186      /**
 187       * Init session handler.
 188       */
 189      public function init() {
 190          if (!extension_loaded('redis')) {
 191              throw new exception('sessionhandlerproblem', 'error', '', null, 'redis extension is not loaded');
 192          }
 193  
 194          if (empty($this->host)) {
 195              throw new exception('sessionhandlerproblem', 'error', '', null,
 196                      '$CFG->session_redis_host must be specified in config.php');
 197          }
 198  
 199          // The session handler requires a version of Redis with the SETEX command (at least 2.0).
 200          $version = phpversion('Redis');
 201          if (!$version or version_compare($version, '2.0') <= 0) {
 202              throw new exception('sessionhandlerproblem', 'error', '', null, 'redis extension version must be at least 2.0');
 203          }
 204  
 205          $this->connection = new \Redis();
 206  
 207          $result = session_set_save_handler(array($this, 'handler_open'),
 208              array($this, 'handler_close'),
 209              array($this, 'handler_read'),
 210              array($this, 'handler_write'),
 211              array($this, 'handler_destroy'),
 212              array($this, 'handler_gc'));
 213          if (!$result) {
 214              throw new exception('redissessionhandlerproblem', 'error');
 215          }
 216  
 217          // MDL-59866: Add retries for connections (up to 5 times) to make sure it goes through.
 218          $counter = 1;
 219          $maxnumberofretries = 5;
 220          $opts = [];
 221          if ($this->sslopts) {
 222              // Do not set $opts['stream'] = [], breaks connect().
 223              $opts['stream'] = $this->sslopts;
 224          }
 225  
 226          while ($counter <= $maxnumberofretries) {
 227  
 228              try {
 229  
 230                  $delay = rand(100, 500);
 231  
 232                  // One second timeout was chosen as it is long for connection, but short enough for a user to be patient.
 233                  if (!$this->connection->connect($this->host, $this->port, 1, null, $delay, 1, $opts)) {
 234                      throw new RedisException('Unable to connect to host.');
 235                  }
 236  
 237                  if ($this->auth !== '') {
 238                      if (!$this->connection->auth($this->auth)) {
 239                          throw new RedisException('Unable to authenticate.');
 240                      }
 241                  }
 242  
 243                  if (!$this->connection->setOption(\Redis::OPT_SERIALIZER, $this->serializer)) {
 244                      throw new RedisException('Unable to set Redis PHP Serializer option.');
 245                  }
 246  
 247                  if ($this->prefix !== '') {
 248                      // Use custom prefix on sessions.
 249                      if (!$this->connection->setOption(\Redis::OPT_PREFIX, $this->prefix)) {
 250                          throw new RedisException('Unable to set Redis Prefix option.');
 251                      }
 252                  }
 253  
 254                  if ($this->sslopts && !$this->connection->ping()) {
 255                      /*
 256                       * In case of a TLS connection, if phpredis client does not
 257                       * communicate immediately with the server the connection hangs.
 258                       * See https://github.com/phpredis/phpredis/issues/2332 .
 259                       */
 260                      throw new \RedisException("Ping failed");
 261                  }
 262  
 263                  if ($this->database !== 0) {
 264                      if (!$this->connection->select($this->database)) {
 265                          throw new RedisException('Unable to select Redis database '.$this->database.'.');
 266                      }
 267                  }
 268                  return true;
 269              } catch (RedisException $e) {
 270                  $logstring = "Failed to connect (try {$counter} out of {$maxnumberofretries}) to redis ";
 271                  $logstring .= "at {$this->host}:{$this->port}, error returned was: {$e->getMessage()}";
 272  
 273                  debugging($logstring);
 274              }
 275  
 276              $counter++;
 277  
 278              // Introduce a random sleep between 100ms and 500ms.
 279              usleep(rand(100000, 500000));
 280          }
 281  
 282          // We have exhausted our retries, time to give up.
 283          if (isset($logstring)) {
 284              throw new RedisException($logstring);
 285          }
 286      }
 287  
 288      /**
 289       * Update our session search path to include session name when opened.
 290       *
 291       * @param string $savepath  unused session save path. (ignored)
 292       * @param string $sessionname Session name for this session. (ignored)
 293       * @return bool true always as we will succeed.
 294       */
 295      public function handler_open($savepath, $sessionname) {
 296          return true;
 297      }
 298  
 299      /**
 300       * Close the session completely. We also remove all locks we may have obtained that aren't expired.
 301       *
 302       * @return bool true on success.  false on unable to unlock sessions.
 303       */
 304      public function handler_close() {
 305          $this->lasthash = null;
 306          try {
 307              foreach ($this->locks as $id => $expirytime) {
 308                  if ($expirytime > $this->time()) {
 309                      $this->unlock_session($id);
 310                  }
 311                  unset($this->locks[$id]);
 312              }
 313          } catch (RedisException $e) {
 314              error_log('Failed talking to redis: '.$e->getMessage());
 315              return false;
 316          }
 317  
 318          return true;
 319      }
 320      /**
 321       * Read the session data from storage
 322       *
 323       * @param string $id The session id to read from storage.
 324       * @return string The session data for PHP to process.
 325       *
 326       * @throws RedisException when we are unable to talk to the Redis server.
 327       */
 328      public function handler_read($id) {
 329          try {
 330              if ($this->requires_write_lock()) {
 331                  $this->lock_session($id);
 332              }
 333              $sessiondata = $this->uncompress($this->connection->get($id));
 334  
 335              if ($sessiondata === false) {
 336                  if ($this->requires_write_lock()) {
 337                      $this->unlock_session($id);
 338                  }
 339                  $this->lasthash = sha1('');
 340                  return '';
 341              }
 342              $this->connection->expire($id, $this->timeout);
 343          } catch (RedisException $e) {
 344              error_log('Failed talking to redis: '.$e->getMessage());
 345              throw $e;
 346          }
 347          $this->lasthash = sha1(base64_encode($sessiondata));
 348          return $sessiondata;
 349      }
 350  
 351      /**
 352       * Compresses session data.
 353       *
 354       * @param mixed $value
 355       * @return string
 356       */
 357      private function compress($value) {
 358          switch ($this->compressor) {
 359              case self::COMPRESSION_NONE:
 360                  return $value;
 361              case self::COMPRESSION_GZIP:
 362                  return gzencode($value);
 363              case self::COMPRESSION_ZSTD:
 364                  return zstd_compress($value);
 365              default:
 366                  debugging("Invalid compressor: {$this->compressor}");
 367                  return $value;
 368          }
 369      }
 370  
 371      /**
 372       * Uncompresses session data.
 373       *
 374       * @param string $value
 375       * @return mixed
 376       */
 377      private function uncompress($value) {
 378          if ($value === false) {
 379              return false;
 380          }
 381  
 382          switch ($this->compressor) {
 383              case self::COMPRESSION_NONE:
 384                  break;
 385              case self::COMPRESSION_GZIP:
 386                  $value = gzdecode($value);
 387                  break;
 388              case self::COMPRESSION_ZSTD:
 389                  $value = zstd_uncompress($value);
 390                  break;
 391              default:
 392                  debugging("Invalid compressor: {$this->compressor}");
 393          }
 394  
 395          return $value;
 396      }
 397  
 398      /**
 399       * Write the serialized session data to our session store.
 400       *
 401       * @param string $id session id to write.
 402       * @param string $data session data
 403       * @return bool true on write success, false on failure
 404       */
 405      public function handler_write($id, $data) {
 406  
 407          $hash = sha1(base64_encode($data));
 408  
 409          // If the content has not changed don't bother writing.
 410          if ($hash === $this->lasthash) {
 411              return true;
 412          }
 413  
 414          if (is_null($this->connection)) {
 415              // The session has already been closed, don't attempt another write.
 416              error_log('Tried to write session: '.$id.' before open or after close.');
 417              return false;
 418          }
 419  
 420          // We do not do locking here because memcached doesn't.  Also
 421          // PHP does open, read, destroy, write, close. When a session doesn't exist.
 422          // There can be race conditions on new sessions racing each other but we can
 423          // address that in the future.
 424          try {
 425              $data = $this->compress($data);
 426  
 427              $this->connection->setex($id, $this->timeout, $data);
 428          } catch (RedisException $e) {
 429              error_log('Failed talking to redis: '.$e->getMessage());
 430              return false;
 431          }
 432          return true;
 433      }
 434  
 435      /**
 436       * Handle destroying a session.
 437       *
 438       * @param string $id the session id to destroy.
 439       * @return bool true if the session was deleted, false otherwise.
 440       */
 441      public function handler_destroy($id) {
 442          $this->lasthash = null;
 443          try {
 444              $this->connection->del($id);
 445              $this->unlock_session($id);
 446          } catch (RedisException $e) {
 447              error_log('Failed talking to redis: '.$e->getMessage());
 448              return false;
 449          }
 450  
 451          return true;
 452      }
 453  
 454      /**
 455       * Garbage collect sessions.  We don't we any as Redis does it for us.
 456       *
 457       * @param integer $maxlifetime All sessions older than this should be removed.
 458       * @return bool true, as Redis handles expiry for us.
 459       */
 460      public function handler_gc($maxlifetime) {
 461          return true;
 462      }
 463  
 464      /**
 465       * Unlock a session.
 466       *
 467       * @param string $id Session id to be unlocked.
 468       */
 469      protected function unlock_session($id) {
 470          if (isset($this->locks[$id])) {
 471              $this->connection->del($id.".lock");
 472              unset($this->locks[$id]);
 473          }
 474      }
 475  
 476      /**
 477       * Obtain a session lock so we are the only one using it at the moment.
 478       *
 479       * @param string $id The session id to lock.
 480       * @return bool true when session was locked, exception otherwise.
 481       * @throws exception When we are unable to obtain a session lock.
 482       */
 483      protected function lock_session($id) {
 484          $lockkey = $id.".lock";
 485  
 486          $haslock = isset($this->locks[$id]) && $this->time() < $this->locks[$id];
 487          $startlocktime = $this->time();
 488  
 489          /* To be able to ensure sessions don't write out of order we must obtain an exclusive lock
 490           * on the session for the entire time it is open.  If another AJAX call, or page is using
 491           * the session then we just wait until it finishes before we can open the session.
 492           */
 493  
 494          // Store the current host, process id and the request URI so it's easy to track who has the lock.
 495          $hostname = gethostname();
 496          if ($hostname === false) {
 497              $hostname = 'UNKNOWN HOST';
 498          }
 499          $pid = getmypid();
 500          if ($pid === false) {
 501              $pid = 'UNKNOWN';
 502          }
 503          $uri = isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) ? $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] : 'unknown uri';
 504  
 505          $whoami = "[pid {$pid}] {$hostname}:$uri";
 506  
 507          $haswarned = false; // Have we logged a lock warning?
 508  
 509          while (!$haslock) {
 510  
 511              $haslock = $this->connection->setnx($lockkey, $whoami);
 512  
 513              if ($haslock) {
 514                  $this->locks[$id] = $this->time() + $this->lockexpire;
 515                  $this->connection->expire($lockkey, $this->lockexpire);
 516                  return true;
 517              }
 518  
 519              if (!empty($this->acquirewarn) && !$haswarned && $this->time() > $startlocktime + $this->acquirewarn) {
 520                  // This is a warning to better inform users.
 521                  $whohaslock = $this->connection->get($lockkey);
 522                  // phpcs:ignore
 523                  error_log("Warning: Cannot obtain session lock for sid: $id within $this->acquirewarn seconds but will keep trying. " .
 524                      "It is likely another page ($whohaslock) has a long session lock, or the session lock was never released.");
 525                  $haswarned = true;
 526              }
 527  
 528              if ($this->time() > $startlocktime + $this->acquiretimeout) {
 529                  // This is a fatal error, better inform users.
 530                  // It should not happen very often - all pages that need long time to execute
 531                  // should close session immediately after access control checks.
 532                  $whohaslock = $this->connection->get($lockkey);
 533                  // phpcs:ignore
 534                  error_log("Error: Cannot obtain session lock for sid: $id within $this->acquiretimeout seconds. " .
 535                      "It is likely another page ($whohaslock) has a long session lock, or the session lock was never released.");
 536                  $acquiretimeout = format_time($this->acquiretimeout);
 537                  $lockexpire = format_time($this->lockexpire);
 538                  $a = (object)[
 539                      'id' => substr($id, 0, 10),
 540                      'acquiretimeout' => $acquiretimeout,
 541                      'whohaslock' => $whohaslock,
 542                      'lockexpire' => $lockexpire];
 543                  throw new exception("sessioncannotobtainlock", 'error', '', $a);
 544              }
 545  
 546              if ($this->time() < $startlocktime + 5) {
 547                  // We want a random delay to stagger the polling load. Ideally
 548                  // this delay should be a fraction of the average response
 549                  // time. If it is too small we will poll too much and if it is
 550                  // too large we will waste time waiting for no reason. 100ms is
 551                  // the default starting point.
 552                  $delay = rand($this->lockretry, (int)($this->lockretry * 1.1));
 553              } else {
 554                  // If we don't get a lock within 5 seconds then there must be a
 555                  // very long lived process holding the lock so throttle back to
 556                  // just polling roughly once a second.
 557                  $delay = rand(1000, 1100);
 558              }
 559  
 560              usleep($delay * 1000);
 561          }
 562      }
 563  
 564      /**
 565       * Return the current time.
 566       *
 567       * @return int the current time as a unixtimestamp.
 568       */
 569      protected function time() {
 570          return time();
 571      }
 572  
 573      /**
 574       * Check the backend contains data for this session id.
 575       *
 576       * Note: this is intended to be called from manager::session_exists() only.
 577       *
 578       * @param string $sid
 579       * @return bool true if session found.
 580       */
 581      public function session_exists($sid) {
 582          if (!$this->connection) {
 583              return false;
 584          }
 585  
 586          try {
 587              return !empty($this->connection->exists($sid));
 588          } catch (RedisException $e) {
 589              return false;
 590          }
 591      }
 592  
 593      /**
 594       * Kill all active sessions, the core sessions table is purged afterwards.
 595       */
 596      public function kill_all_sessions() {
 597          global $DB;
 598          if (!$this->connection) {
 599              return;
 600          }
 601  
 602          $rs = $DB->get_recordset('sessions', array(), 'id DESC', 'id, sid');
 603          foreach ($rs as $record) {
 604              $this->handler_destroy($record->sid);
 605          }
 606          $rs->close();
 607      }
 608  
 609      /**
 610       * Kill one session, the session record is removed afterwards.
 611       *
 612       * @param string $sid
 613       */
 614      public function kill_session($sid) {
 615          if (!$this->connection) {
 616              return;
 617          }
 618  
 619          $this->handler_destroy($sid);
 620      }
 621  }