BITOP bug when called against non existing keys fixed.

In the issue #529 an user reported a bug that can be triggered with the
following code:

flushdb
set a
"\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"
bitop or x a b

The bug was introduced with the speed optimization in commit 8bbc076
that specializes every BITOP operation loop up to the minimum length of
the input strings.

However the computation of the minimum length contained an error when a
non existing key was present in the input, after a key that was non zero
length.

This commit fixes the bug and adds a regression test for it.
RDB type loading functions clarified in comments.

Improved comments to make clear that rdbLoadType() just loads a
general TYPE in the context of RDB that can be an object type or an
expire type, end-of-file, and so forth.

While rdbLoadObjectType() enforces that the type is a valid Object Type
otherwise it returns -1.
Fixed RESTORE hash failure (Issue #532)

(additional commit notes by antirez@gmail.com):

The rdbIsObjectType() macro was not updated when the new RDB object type
of ziplist encoded hashes was added.

As a result RESTORE, that uses rdbLoadObjectType(), failed when a
ziplist encoded hash was loaded.
This does not affected normal RDB loading because in that case we use
the lower-level function rdbLoadType().

The commit also adds a regression test.
EVAL replication test: less false positives.

wait_for_condition is now used instead of the usual "after 1000" (that
is the way to sleep in Tcl). This should avoid to find the replica in
a state where it is loading the RDB in memory, returning -LOADING error.

This test used to fail when running the test over valgrind, due to the
added latencies.
New test: hash ziplist -> hashtable encoding conversion.

A new stress test was added to stress test the code converting a ziplist
into an hash table.

In this commit also randomValue helper function was modified to also
return negative values.
Dump ziplist hex value on failed assertion.

The ziplist -> hashtable conversion code is triggered every time an hash
value must be promoted to a full hash table because the number or size of
elements reached the threshold.

If a problem in the ziplist causes the same field to be present
multiple times, the assertion of successful addition of the element
inside the hash table will fail, crashing server with a failed
assertion, but providing little information about the problem.

This code adds a new logging function to perform the hex dump of binary
data, and makes sure that the ziplist -> hashtable conversion code uses
this new logging facility to dump the content of the ziplist when the
assertion fails.

This change was originally made in order to investigate issue #547.
Added a new hash fuzzy tester.

The new fuzzy tester also removes elements from the hash instead of just
adding random fields. This should increase the probability to find bugs
in the implementations of the hash type internal representations.
Standardize punctuation in redis-cli help.

Right there is a mix of help entries ending with periods or
without periods. This standardizes the end of command as without
periods, which seems to be the general custom in most unix tools,
at least.
Merge pull request #552 from tnm/unstable

Standardize punctuation in redis-cli help.
ziplistFind(): don't assume that entries are comparable by encoding.

Because Redis 2.6 introduced new integer encodings it is no longer true
that if two entries have a different encoding they are not equal.

An old ziplist can be loaded from an RDB file generated with Redis 2.4,
in this case for instance a small unsigned integers is encoded with a
16 bit encoding, while in Redis 2.6 a more specific 8 bit encoding
format is used.

Because of this bug hashes ended with duplicated values or fields lookup
failed, causing many bad behaviors.
This in turn caused a crash while converting the ziplist encoded hash into
a real hash table because an assertion was raised on duplicated elements.

This commit fixes issue #547.

Many thanks to Pinterest's Marty Weiner and colleagues for discovering
the problem and helping us in the debugging process.
Fix c->reply_bytes computation in setDeferredMultiBulkLength()

In order to implement reply buffer limits introduced in 2.6 and useful
to close the connection under user-selected circumastances of big output
buffers (for instance slow consumers in pub/sub, a blocked slave, and so
forth) Redis takes a counter with the amount of used memory in objects
inside the output list stored into c->reply.

The computation was broken in the function setDeferredMultiBulkLength(),
in the case the object was glued with the next one. This caused the
c->reply_bytes field to go out of sync, be subtracted more than needed,
and wrap back near to ULONG_MAX values.

This commit fixes this bug and adds an assertion that is able to trap
this class of problems.

This problem was discovered looking at the INFO output of an unrelated
issue (issue #547).
Fixed a timing attack on AUTH (Issue #560).

The way we compared the authentication password using strcmp() allowed
an attacker to gain information about the password using a well known
class of attacks called "timing attacks".

The bug appears to be practically not exploitable in most modern systems
running Redis since even using multiple bytes of differences in the
input at a time instead of one the difference in running time in in the
order of 10 nanoseconds, making it hard to exploit even on LAN. However
attacks always get better so we are providing a fix ASAP.

The new implementation uses two fixed length buffers and a constant time
comparison function, with the goal of:

1) Completely avoid leaking information about the content of the
password, since the comparison is always performed between 512
characters and without conditionals.
2) Partially avoid leaking information about the length of the
password.

About "2" we still have a stage in the code where the real password and
the user provided password are copied in the static buffers, we also run
two strlen() operations against the two inputs, so the running time
of the comparison is a fixed amount plus a time proportional to
LENGTH(A)+LENGTH(B). This means that the absolute time of the operation
performed is still related to the length of the password in some way,
but there is no way to change the input in order to get a difference in
the execution time in the comparison that is not just proportional to
the string provided by the user (because the password length is fixed).

Thus in practical terms the user should try to discover LENGTH(PASSWORD)
looking at the whole execution time of the AUTH command and trying to
guess a proportionality between the whole execution time and the
password length: this appears to be mostly unfeasible in the real world.

Also protecting from this attack is not very useful in the case of Redis
as a brute force attack is anyway feasible if the password is too short,
while with a long password makes it not an issue that the attacker knows
the length.
Fixed comment typo into time_independent_strcmp().
REPLCONF internal command introduced.

The REPLCONF command is an internal command (not designed to be directly
used by normal clients) that allows a slave to set some replication
related state in the master before issuing SYNC to start the
replication.

The initial motivation for this command, and the only reason currently
it is used by the implementation, is to let the slave instance
communicate its listening port to the slave, so that the master can
show all the slaves with their listening ports in the "replication"
section of the INFO output.

This allows clients to auto discover and query all the slaves attached
into a master.

Currently only a single option of the REPLCONF command is supported, and
it is called "listening-port", so the slave now starts the replication
process with something like the following chat:

    REPLCONF listening-prot 6380
    SYNC

Note that this works even if the master is an older version of Redis and
does not understand REPLCONF, because the slave ignores the REPLCONF
error.

In the future REPLCONF can be used for partial replication and other
replication related features where there is the need to exchange
information between master and slave.

NOTE: This commit also fixes a bug: the INFO outout already carried
information about slaves, but the port was broken, and was obtained
with getpeername(2), so it was actually just the ephemeral port used
by the slave to connect to the master as a client.
Typo in comment.
mark fd as writable when EPOLLERR or EPOLLHUP is returned by epoll_wait.
Bug fix: slaves being pinged every second

REDIS_REPL_PING_SLAVE_PERIOD controls how often the master should
transmit a heartbeat (PING) to its slaves.  This period, which defaults
to 10, is measured in seconds.

Redis 2.4 masters used to ping their slaves every ten seconds, just like
it says on the tin.

The Redis 2.6 masters I have been experimenting with, on the other hand,
ping their slaves *every second*.  (master_last_io_seconds_ago never
approaches 10.)  I think the ping period was inadvertently slashed to
one-tenth of its nominal value around the time REDIS_HZ was introduced.
This commit reintroduces correct ping schedule behaviour.
Merge pull request #569 from jokea/unstable

mark fd as writable when EPOLLERR or EPOLLHUP is returned by epoll_wait.
Check that we have connection before enabling pipe mode
New in INFO: aof_last_bgrewrite_status

Behaves like rdb_last_bgsave_status -- even down to reporting 'ok' when
no rewrite has been done yet.  (You might want to check that
aof_last_rewrite_time_sec is not -1.)