The <isc/md.h> header directly included <openssl/hmac.h> header which
enforced all users of the libisc library to explicitly list the include
path to OpenSSL and link with -lcrypto. By hiding the specific
implementation into the private namespace, we no longer enforce this.
In the long run, this might also allow us to switch cryptographic
library implementation without affecting the downstream users.
The two "functions" that isc/safe.h declared before were actually simple
defines to matching OpenSSL functions. The downside of the approach was
enforcing all users of the libisc library to explicitly list the include
path to OpenSSL and link with -lcrypto. By hiding the specific
implementation into the private namespace changing the defines into
simple functions, we no longer enforce this. In the long run, this
might also allow us to switch cryptographic library implementation
without affecting the downstream users.
The previous commit removed the code related to the internal symbol
table. On platforms where available, we can now use backtrace_symbols()
to print more verbose symbols table to the output.
As there's now general availability of backtrace() and
backtrace_symbols() functions (see below), the commit also removes the
usage of glibc internals and the custom stack tracing.
* backtrace(), backtrace_symbols(), and backtrace_symbols_fd() are
provided in glibc since version 2.1.
* backtrace(), backtrace_symbols(), and backtrace_symbols_fd() first
appeared in Mac OS X 10.5.
* The backtrace() library of functions first appeared in NetBSD 7.0 and
FreeBSD 10.0.
A data race was happening while BIND was starting due to
isc_log_wouldlog function accessing lctx->logconfig without a lock.
To prevent that without incurring much costs, that variable was made
atomic.
This commit fixes isc_glob function on windows environments.
The file_list_t * object pointed to by pglob->reserved was missing
ISC_LIST_INIT intialization macro.
There was a very slim chance of a race between isc_socket_detach and
process_fd: isc_socket_detach decrements references to 0, and before it
calls destroy gets preempted. Second thread calls process_fd, increments
socket references temporarily to 1, and then gets preempted, first thread
then hits assertion in destroy() as the reference counter is now 1 and
not 0.
When --with-zlib is passed to ./configure (or when the latter
autodetects zlib's presence), libisc uses certain zlib functions and
thus libisc's users should be linked against zlib in that case. Adjust
Makefile variables appropriately to prevent shared build failures caused
by underlinking.
mem.c:add_trace_entry() -> isc_hash_function() -> isc_siphash24()
129 for (; in != end; in += 8) {
6. byte_swapping: Performing a byte swapping operation on
in implies that it came from an external source, and is
therefore tainted.
130 uint64_t m = U8TO64_LE(in);
We were using our own versions of isc_uv_{export,import} functions
for multithreaded TCP listeners. Upcoming libuv version will
contain proper uv_{export,import} functions - use them if they're
available.
Upcoming version of libuv will suport uv_recvmmsg and uv_sendmmsg. To
use uv_recvmmsg we need to provide a larger buffer and be able to
properly free it.
isc_task_pause/unpause were inherently thread-unsafe - a task
could be paused only once by one thread, if the task was running
while we paused it it led to races. Fix it by making sure that
the task will pause if requested to, and by using a 'pause reference
counter' to count task pause requests - a task will be unpaused
iff all threads unpause it.
Don't remove from queue when pausing task - we lock the queue lock
(expensive), while it's unlikely that the task will be running -
and we'll remove it anyway in dispatcher
this corrects some style glitches such as:
```
long_function_call(arg, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5, "str"
"ing");
```
...by adjusting the penalties for breaking strings and call
parameter lists.
While testing BIND 9 on arm64 8+ core machine, it was discovered that
the weak variants in fact does spuriously fail, we haven't observed that
on other architectures.
This commit replaces all non-loop usage of atomic_compare_exchange_weak
with atomic_compare_exchange_strong.
This commit simplifies a bit the lock management within dns_resolver_prime()
and prime_done() functions by means of turning resolver's attribute
"priming" into an atomic_bool and by creating only one dependent object on the
lock "primelock", namely the "primefetch" attribute.
By having the attribute "priming" as an atomic type, it save us from having to
use a lock just to test if priming is on or off for the given resolver context
object, within "dns_resolver_prime" function.
The "primelock" lock is still necessary, since dns_resolver_prime() function
internally calls dns_resolver_createfetch(), and whenever this function
succeeds it registers an event in the task manager which could be called by
another thread, namely the "prime_done" function, and this function is
responsible for disposing the "primefetch" attribute in the resolver object,
also for resetting "priming" attribute to false.
It is important that the invariant "priming == false AND primefetch == NULL"
remains constant, so that any thread calling "dns_resolver_prime" knows for sure
that if the "priming" attribute is false, "primefetch" attribute should also be
NULL, so a new fetch context could be created to fulfill this purpose, and
assigned to "primefetch" attribute under the lock protection.
To honor the explanation above, dns_resolver_prime is implemented as follow:
1. Atomically checks the attribute "priming" for the given resolver context.
2. If "priming" is false, assumes that "primefetch" is NULL (this is
ensured by the "prime_done" implementation), acquire "primelock"
lock and create a new fetch context, update "primefetch" pointer to
point to the newly allocated fetch context.
3. If "priming" is true, assumes that the job is already in progress,
no locks are acquired, nothing else to do.
To keep the previous invariant consistent, "prime_done" is implemented as follow:
1. Acquire "primefetch" lock.
2. Keep a reference to the current "primefetch" object;
3. Reset "primefetch" attribute to NULL.
4. Release "primefetch" lock.
5. Atomically update "priming" attribute to false.
6. Destroy the "primefetch" object by using the temporary reference.
This ensures that if "priming" is false, "primefetch" was already reset to NULL.
It doesn't make any difference in having the "priming" attribute not protected
by a lock, since the visible state of this variable would depend on the calling
order of the functions "dns_resolver_prime" and "prime_done".
As an example, suppose that instead of using an atomic for the "priming" attribute
we employed a lock to protect it.
Now suppose that "prime_done" function is called by Thread A, it is then preempted
before acquiring the lock, thus not reseting "priming" to false.
In parallel to that suppose that a Thread B is scheduled and that it calls
"dns_resolver_prime()", it then acquires the lock and check that "priming" is true,
thus it will consider that this resolver object is already priming and it won't do
any more job.
Conversely if the lock order was acquired in the other direction, Thread B would check
that "priming" is false (since prime_done acquired the lock first and set "priming" to false)
and it would initiate a priming fetch for this resolver.
An atomic variable wouldn't change this behavior, since it would behave exactly the
same, depending on the function call order, with the exception that it would avoid
having to use a lock.
There should be no side effects resulting from this change, since the previous
implementation employed use of the more general resolver's "lock" mutex, which
is used in far more contexts, but in the specifics of the "dns_resolver_prime"
and "prime_done" it was only used to protect "primefetch" and "priming" attributes,
which are not used in any of the other critical sections protected by the same lock,
thus having zero dependency on those variables.
Both clang-tidy and uncrustify chokes on statement like this:
for (...)
if (...)
break;
This commit uses a very simple semantic patch (below) to add braces around such
statements.
Semantic patch used:
@@
statement S;
expression E;
@@
while (...)
- if (E) S
+ { if (E) { S } }
@@
statement S;
expression E;
@@
for (...;...;...)
- if (E) S
+ { if (E) { S } }
@@
statement S;
expression E;
@@
if (...)
- if (E) S
+ { if (E) { S } }
There was a hard limit set on number of uvreq and nmhandles
that can be allocated by a pool, but we don't handle a situation
where we can't get an uvreq. Don't limit the number at all,
let the OS deal with it.
The memory ordering in the rwlock was all wrong, I am copying excerpts
from the https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/atomic/memory_order#Relaxed_ordering
for the convenience of the reader:
Relaxed ordering
Atomic operations tagged memory_order_relaxed are not synchronization
operations; they do not impose an order among concurrent memory
accesses. They only guarantee atomicity and modification order
consistency.
Release-Acquire ordering
If an atomic store in thread A is tagged memory_order_release and an
atomic load in thread B from the same variable is tagged
memory_order_acquire, all memory writes (non-atomic and relaxed atomic)
that happened-before the atomic store from the point of view of thread
A, become visible side-effects in thread B. That is, once the atomic
load is completed, thread B is guaranteed to see everything thread A
wrote to memory.
The synchronization is established only between the threads releasing
and acquiring the same atomic variable. Other threads can see different
order of memory accesses than either or both of the synchronized
threads.
Which basically means that we had no or weak synchronization between
threads using the same variables in the rwlock structure. There should
not be a significant performance drop because the critical sections were
already protected by:
while(1) {
if (relaxed_atomic_operation) {
break;
}
LOCK(lock);
if (!relaxed_atomic_operation) {
WAIT(sem, lock);
}
UNLOCK(lock)l
}
I would add one more thing to "Don't do your own crypto, folks.":
- Also don't do your own locking, folks.
Also disable the semantic patch as the code needs tweaks here and there because
some destroy functions might not destroy the object and return early if the
object is still in use.
