We have to mention that every option within a "tls" clause has
defaults out of our control as some platforms have means for defining
encryption policies globally for any application on the system.
In order to comply with these policies, we have not to modify TLS
contexts settings, unless we have to do so according to the options
specified within "tls" clauses.
This commit adds the ability to enable or disable stateless TLS
session resumption tickets (see RFC5077). Having this ability is
twofold.
Firstly, these tickets are encrypted by the server, and the algorithm
might be weaker than the algorithm negotiated during the TLS session
establishment (it is in general the case for TLSv1.2, but the generic
principle applies to TLSv1.3 as well, despite it having better ciphers
for session tickets). Thus, they might compromise Perfect Forward
Secrecy.
Secondly, disabling it might be necessary if the same TLS key/cert
pair is supposed to be used by multiple servers to achieve, e.g., load
balancing because the session ticket by default gets generated in
runtime, while to achieve successful session resumption ability, in
this case, would have required using a shared key.
The proper alternative to having the ability to disable stateless TLS
session resumption tickets is to implement a proper session tickets
key rollover mechanism so that key rotation might be performed
often (e.g. once an hour) to not compromise forward secrecy while
retaining the associated performance benefits. That is much more work,
though. On the other hand, having the ability to disable session
tickets allows having a deployable configuration right now in the
cases when either forward secrecy is wanted or sharing the TLS
key/cert pair between multiple servers is needed (or both).
This commit adds support for enforcing the preference of server
ciphers over the client ones. This way, the server attains control
over the ciphers priority and, thus, can choose more strong cyphers
when a client prioritises less strong ciphers over the more strong
ones, which is beneficial when trying to achieve Perfect Forward
Secrecy.
This commit adds support for setting TLS cipher list string in the
format specified in the OpenSSL
documentation (https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.1/man1/ciphers.html).
The syntax of the cipher list is verified so that specifying the wrong
string will prevent the configuration from being loaded.
This commit adds support for loading DH-parameters (Diffie-Hellman
parameters) via the new "dhparam-file" option within "tls" clause. In
particular, Diffie-Hellman parameters are needed to enable the range
of forward-secrecy enabled cyphers for TLSv1.2, which are getting
silently disabled otherwise.
This commit adds the ability to specify allowed TLS protocols versions
within the "tls" clause. If an unsupported TLS protocol version is
specified in a file, the configuration file will not pass
verification.
Also, this commit adds strict checks for "tls" clauses verification,
in particular:
- it ensures that loading configuration files containing duplicated
"tls" clauses is not allowed;
- it ensures that loading configuration files containing "tls" clauses
missing "cert-file" or "key-file" is not allowed;
- it ensures that loading configuration files containing "tls" clauses
named as "ephemeral" or "none" is not allowed.
Previously a missing/deleted zone which was referenced by a catalog
zone was causing a crash when doing a reload.
This commit will make `named` to ignore the fact that the zone is
missing, and make sure to restore it later on.
It was discovered that named could crash due to a segmentation fault
when jemalloc was in use and memory allocation failed. This was not
intended to happen as jemalloc's "xmalloc" option was set to "true" in
the "malloc_conf" configuration variable. However, that variable was
only set after jemalloc was already done with parsing it, which
effectively caused setting that variable to have no effect.
While investigating this issue, it was also discovered that enabling the
"xmalloc" option makes jemalloc use a slow processing path, decreasing
its performance by about 25%. [1]
Additionally, further testing (carried out after fixing the way
"malloc_conf" was set) revealed that the non-default configuration
options do not have any measurable effect on either authoritative or
recursive DNS server performance.
Replace code setting various jemalloc options to non-default values with
assertion checks of mallocx()/rallocx() return values.
[1] https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc/pull/523
This commit fixes heap use after free when checking BIND's
configuration files for errors with http clauses. The old code
was unnecessarially copying the http element name and freeing
it to early. The name is now used directly.
zone.c:integrity_checks() acquires a read lock while iterating the
zone database, and calls zone_check_mx() which acquires another
read lock. If another thread tries to acquire a write lock in the
meantime, it can deadlock. Calling dns_dbiterator_pause() to release
the first read lock prevents this.
check for type "master" / "slave" at the same time as checking
for "primary" / "secondary" as we step through the maps.
Checking "primary" then "master" or "master" then "primary" does
not work as the synomym is not checked for to stop the search.
Similarly with "secondary" and "slave".
On TCPDNS/TLSDNS read callback, the socket buffer could be reallocated
if the received contents would be larger than the buffer. The existing
code would not preserve the contents of the existing buffer which lead
to the loss of the already received data.
This commit changes the isc_mem_put()+isc_mem_get() with isc_mem_reget()
to preserve the existing contents of the socket buffer.
The netmgr, has an internal cache for freed active handles. This cache
was allocated using isc_mem_allocate()/isc_mem_free() API because it was
simpler to reallocate the cache when we needed to grow it. The new
isc_mem_reget() function could be used here reducing the need to use
isc_mem_allocate() API which is tad bit slower than isc_mem_get() API.
Previously, we cannot use isc_mem_reallocate() for growing the buffer
dynamically, because the memory was allocated using the
isc_mem_get()/isc_mem_put() API. With the introduction of the
isc_mem_reget() function, we can use grow/shrink the memory directly
without always moving the memory around as the allocator might have
reserved some extra space after the initial allocation.
Previously, the zero-sized allocations would return NULL pointer and the
caller had to make sure to not dereference such pointer. The C standard
defines the zero-sized calls to malloc() as implementation specific and
jemalloc mallocx() with zero size would be undefined behaviour. This
complicated the code as it had to handle such cases in a special manner
in all allocator and deallocator functions.
Now, for realloc(), the situation is even more complicated. In C
standard up to C11, the behavior would be implementation defined, and
actually some implementation would free to orig ptr and some would not.
Since C17 (via DR400) would deprecate such usage and since C23, the
behaviour would be undefined.
This commits changes helper mem_get(), mem_put() and mem_realloc()
functions to grow the zero-allocation from 0 to sizeof(void *).
This way we get a predicable behaviour that all the allocations will
always return valid pointer.
The isc_mem_get() and isc_mem_put() functions are leaving the memory
allocation size tracking to the users of the API, while
isc_mem_allocate() and isc_mem_free() would track the sizes internally.
This allowed to have isc_mem_rellocate() to manipulate the memory
allocations by the later set, but not the former set of the functions.
This commit introduces isc_mem_reget(ctx, old_ptr, old_size, new_size)
function that operates on the memory allocations with external size
tracking completing the API.
