the pattern `for (x = ISC_LIST_HEAD(...); x != NULL; ISC_LIST_NEXT(...)`
has been changed to `ISC_LIST_FOREACH` throughout BIND, except in a few
cases where the change would be excessively complex.
in most cases this was a straightforward change. in some places,
however, the list element variable was referenced after the loop
ended, and the code was refactored to avoid this necessity.
also, because `ISC_LIST_FOREACH` uses typeof(list.head) to declare
the list elements, compilation failures can occur if the list object
has a `const` qualifier. some `const` qualifiers have been removed
from function parameters to avoid this problem, and where that was not
possible, `UNCONST` was used.
previously, dns_name_fromtext() took both a target name and an
optional target buffer parameter, which could override the name's
dedicated buffer. this interface is unnecessarily complex.
we now have two functions, dns_name_fromtext() to convert text
into a dns_name that has a dedicated buffer, and dns_name_wirefromtext()
to convert text into uncompressed DNS wire format and append it to a
target buffer.
in cases where it really is necessary to have both, we can use
dns_name_fromtext() to load the dns_name, then dns_name_towire()
to append the wire format to the target buffer.
the isc_mem allocation functions can no longer fail; as a result,
ISC_R_NOMEMORY is now rarely used: only when an external library
such as libjson-c or libfstrm could return NULL. (even in
these cases, arguably we should assert rather than returning
ISC_R_NOMEMORY.)
code and comments that mentioned ISC_R_NOMEMORY have been
cleaned up, and the following functions have been changed to
type void, since (in most cases) the only value they could
return was ISC_R_SUCCESS:
- dns_dns64_create()
- dns_dyndb_create()
- dns_ipkeylist_resize()
- dns_kasp_create()
- dns_kasp_key_create()
- dns_keystore_create()
- dns_order_create()
- dns_order_add()
- dns_peerlist_new()
- dns_tkeyctx_create()
- dns_view_create()
- dns_zone_setorigin()
- dns_zone_setfile()
- dns_zone_setstream()
- dns_zone_getdbtype()
- dns_zone_setjournal()
- dns_zone_setkeydirectory()
- isc_lex_openstream()
- isc_portset_create()
- isc_symtab_create()
(the exception is dns_view_create(), which could have returned
other error codes in the event of a crypto library failure when
calling isc_file_sanitize(), but that should be a RUNTIME_CHECK
anyway.)
coccinelle v1.1 trips over a superfluous isc_mem_get() NULL check in
tests/libtest/ns.c and reports the following failure in CI:
EXN: Failure("rule starting on line 26: already tagged token:\nC code context\nFile \"./tests/libtest/ns.c\", line 350, column 1, charpos = 7939\n around = 'if',\n whole content = \tif (qctx != NULL) {") in ./tests/libtest/ns.c
Instead of cleaning the dns_badcache opportunistically, add per-loop
LRU, so each thread-loop can clean the expired entries. This also
allows removal of the atomic operations as the badcache entries are now
immutable, instead of updating the badcache entry in place, the old
entry is now deleted from the hashtable and the LRU list, and the new
entry is inserted in the LRU.
Stop using ns_listenlist_default() to set the default listen-on
and listen-on-v6 configuration. Instead, configure these options
using the default values in config.c.
Remove the complicated mechanism that could be (in theory) used by
external libraries to register new categories and modules with
statically defined lists in <isc/log.h>. This is similar to what we
have done for <isc/result.h> result codes. All the libraries are now
internal to BIND 9, so we don't need to provide a mechanism to register
extra categories and modules.
New version of clang (19) has introduced a stricter checks when mixing
integer (and float types) with enums. In this case, we used enum {}
as C17 doesn't have constexpr yet. Change the time conversion constants
to be static const unsigned int instead of enum values.
dns_difftuple_create() could only return success, so change
its type to void and clean up all the calls to it.
other functions that only returned a result value because of it
have been cleaned up in the same way.
When automatic-interface-scan is disabled, the route socket was still
being opened. Add new API to connect / disconnect from the route socket
only as needed.
Additionally, move the block that disables periodic interface rescans to
a place where it actually have access to the configuration values.
Previously, the values were being checked before the configuration was
loaded.
As ns_query_init() cannot fail now, remove the error paths, especially
in ns__client_setup() where we now don't have to care what to do with
the connection if setting up the client could fail. It couldn't fail
even before, but now it's formal.
View matching on an incoming query checks the query's signature,
which can be a CPU-heavy task for a SIG(0)-signed message. Implement
an asynchronous mode of the view matching function which uses the
offloaded signature checking facilities, and use it for the incoming
queries.
In order to protect from a malicious DNS client that sends many
queries with a SIG(0)-signed message, add a quota of simultaneously
running SIG(0) checks.
This protection can only help when named is using more than one worker
threads. For example, if named is running with the '-n 4' option, and
'sig0checks-quota 2;' is used, then named will make sure to not use
more than 2 workers for the SIG(0) signature checks in parallel, thus
leaving the other workers to serve the remaining clients which do not
use SIG(0)-signed messages.
That limitation is going to change when SIG(0) signature checks are
offloaded to "slow" threads in a future commit.
The 'sig0checks-quota-exempt' ACL option can be used to exempt certain
clients from the quota requirements using their IP or network addresses.
The 'sig0checks-quota-maxwait-ms' option is used to define a maximum
amount of time for named to wait for a quota to appear. If during that
time no new quota becomes available, named will answer to the client
with DNS_R_REFUSED.
if we had a method to get the running loop, similar to how
isc_tid() gets the current thread ID, we can simplify loop
and loopmgr initialization.
remove most uses of isc_loop_current() in favor of isc_loop().
in some places where that was the only reason to pass loopmgr,
remove loopmgr from the function parameters.
by default, QPDB is the database used by named and all tools and
unit tests. the old default of RBTDB can now be restored by using
"configure --with-zonedb=rbt --with-cachedb=rbt".
some tests have been fixed so they will work correctly with either
database.
CHANGES and release notes have been updated to reflect this change.
replace the string "rbt" throughout BIND with "qp" so that
qpdb databases will be used by default instead of rbtdb.
rbtdb databases can still be used by specifying "database rbt;"
in a zone statement.
Because we don't use jemalloc functions directly, but only via the
libisc library, the dynamic linker might pull the jemalloc library
too late when memory has been already allocated via standard libc
allocator.
Add a workaround round isc_mem_create() that makes the dynamic linker
to pull jemalloc earlier than libc.
- make iterators reversible: refactor dns_qpiter_next() and add a new
dns_qpiter_prev() function to support iterating both forwards and
backwards through a QP trie.
- added a 'name' parameter to dns_qpiter_next() (as well as _prev())
to make it easier to retrieve the nodename while iterating, without
having to construct it from pointer value data.
- the helper functions for accessing twigs beneath a branch
(branch_twig_pos(), branch_twig_ptr(), etc) were somewhat confusing
to read, since several of them were implemented by calling other
helper functions. they now all show what they're really doing.
- branch_twigs_vector() has been renamed to simply branch_twigs().
- revised some unrelated comments in qp_p.h for clarity.
add a 'foundname' parameter to dns_qp_findname_ancestor(),
and use it to set the found name in dns_nametree.
this required adding a dns_qpkey_toname() function; that was
done by moving qp_test_keytoname() from the test library to qp.c.
added some more test cases and fixed bugs with the handling of
relative and empty names.
Instead of creating new memory pools for each new dns_message, change
dns_message_create() method to optionally accept externally created
dns_fixedname_t and dns_rdataset_t memory pools. This allows us to
preallocate the memory pools in ns_client and dns_resolver units for the
lifetime of dns_resolver_t and ns_clientmgr_t.
Reusing TCP connections with dns_dispatch_gettcp() used linear linked
list to lookup existing outgoing TCP connections that could be reused.
Replace the linked list with per-loop cds_lfht hashtable to speedup the
lookups. We use cds_lfht because it allows non-unique node insertion
that we need to check for dispatches in different connection states.
The dns_dispatchmgr object was only set in the dns_view object making it
prone to use-after-free in the dns_xfrin unit when shutting down named.
Remove dns_view_setdispatchmgr() and optionally pass the dispatchmgr
directly to dns_view_create() when it is attached and not just assigned,
so the dns_dispatchmgr doesn't cease to exist too early.
The dns_view_getdnsdispatchmgr() is now protected by the RCU lock, the
dispatchmgr reference is incremented, so the caller needs to detach from
it, and the function can return NULL in case the dns_view has been
already shut down.
Move registration and deregistration of the main thread from
`isc_loopmgr_run()` into `isc__initialize()` / `isc__shutdown()`:
liburcu-qsbr fails an assertion if we try to use it from an
unregistered thread, and we need to be able to use it when the
event loops are not running.
Use `rcu_assign_pointer()` and `rcu_dereference()` in qp-trie
transactions so that they properly mark threads as online. The
RCU-protected pointer is no longer declared atomic because
liburcu does not (yet) use standard C atomics.
Fix the definition of `isc_qsbr_rcu_dereference()` to return
the referenced value, and to call the right function inside
liburcu.
Change the thread sanitizer suppressions to match any variant of
`rcu_*_barrier()`
The workers variable might be needed even to tests not using
loopmgr. Split the workers initialization into setup_workers() function
and always call it from the default main loop.
When shutting down TCP sockets, the read callback calling logic was
flawed, it would call either one less callback or one extra. Fix the
logic in the way:
1. When isc_nm_read() has been called but isc_nm_read_stop() hasn't on
the handle, the read callback will be called with ISC_R_CANCELED to
cancel active reading from the socket/handle.
2. When isc_nm_read() has been called and isc_nm_read_stop() has been
called on the on the handle, the read callback will be called with
ISC_R_SHUTTINGDOWN to signal that the dormant (not-reading) socket
is being shut down.
3. The .reading and .recv_read flags are little bit tricky. The
.reading flag indicates if the outer layer is reading the data (that
would be uv_tcp_t for TCP and isc_nmsocket_t (TCP) for TLSStream),
the .recv_read flag indicates whether somebody is interested in the
data read from the socket.
Usually, you would expect that the .reading should be false when
.recv_read is false, but it gets even more tricky with TLSStream as
the TLS protocol might need to read from the socket even when sending
data.
Fix the usage of the .recv_read and .reading flags in the TLSStream
to their true meaning - which mostly consist of using .recv_read
everywhere and then wrapping isc_nm_read() and isc_nm_read_stop()
with the .reading flag.
4. The TLS failed read helper has been modified to resemble the TCP code
as much as possible, clearing and re-setting the .recv_read flag in
the TCP timeout code has been fixed and .recv_read is now cleared
when isc_nm_read_stop() has been called on the streaming socket.
5. The use of Network Manager in the named_controlconf, isccc_ccmsg, and
isc_httpd units have been greatly simplified due to the improved design.
6. More unit tests for TCP and TLS testing the shutdown conditions have
been added.
Co-authored-by: Ondřej Surý <ondrej@isc.org>
Co-authored-by: Artem Boldariev <artem@isc.org>
This change makes the zone table lock-free for reads. Previously, the
zone table used a red-black tree, which is not thread safe, so the hot
read path acquired both the per-view mutex and the per-zonetable
rwlock. (The double locking was to fix to cleanup races on shutdown.)
One visible difference is that zones are not necessarily shut down
promptly: it depends on when the qp-trie garbage collector cleans up
the zone table. The `catz` system test checks several times that zones
have been deleted; the test now checks for zones to be removed from
the server configuration, instead of being fully shut down. The catz
test does not churn through enough zones to trigger a gc, so the zones
are not fully detached until the server exits.
After this change, it is still possible to improve the way we handle
changes to the zone table, for instance, batching changes, or better
compaction heuristics.
The isc_time_now() and isc_time_now_hires() were used inconsistently
through the code - either with status check, or without status check,
or via TIME_NOW() macro with RUNTIME_CHECK() on failure.
Refactor the isc_time_now() and isc_time_now_hires() to always fail when
getting current time has failed, and return the isc_time_t value as
return value instead of passing the pointer to result in the argument.
Instead of marking the unused entities with UNUSED(x) macro in the
function body, use a `ISC_ATTR_UNUSED` attribute macro that expans to
C23 [[maybe_unused]] or __attribute__((__unused__)) as fallback.
The first working multi-threaded qp-trie was stuck with an unpleasant
trade-off:
* Use `isc_rwlock`, which has acceptable write performance, but
terrible read scalability because the qp-trie made all accesses
through a single lock.
* Use `liburcu`, which has great read scalability, but terrible
write performance, because I was relying on `rcu_synchronize()`
which is rather slow. And `liburcu` is LGPL.
To get the best of both worlds, we need our own scalable read side,
which we now have with `isc_qsbr`. And we need to modify the write
side so that it is not blocked by readers.
Better write performance requires an async cleanup function like
`call_rcu()`, instead of the blocking `rcu_synchronize()`. (There
is no blocking cleanup in `isc_qsbr`, because I have concluded
that it would be an attractive nuisance.)
Until now, all my multithreading qp-trie designs have been based
around two versions, read-only and mutable. This is too few to
work with asynchronous cleanup. The bare minimum (as in epoch
based reclamation) is three, but it makes more sense to support an
arbitrary number. Doing multi-version support "properly" makes
fewer assumptions about how safe memory reclamation works, and it
makes snapshots and rollbacks simpler.
To avoid making the memory management even more complicated, I
have introduced a new kind of "packed reader node" to anchor the
root of a version of the trie. This is simpler because it re-uses
the existing chunk lifetime logic - see the discussion under
"packed reader nodes" in `qp_p.h`.
I have also made the chunk lifetime logic simpler. The idea of a
"generation" is gone; instead, chunks are either mutable or
immutable. And the QSBR phase number is used to indicate when a
chunk can be reclaimed.
Instead of the `shared_base` flag (which was basically a one-bit
reference count, with a two version limit) the base array now has a
refcount, which replaces the confusing ad-hoc lifetime logic with
something more familiar and systematic.
This change adds a number of support routines for the unit tests, and
for benchmarks and fuzz tests to be added later. It isn't necessary to
include the support routines in libdns, since they are not needed by
BIND's installed programs. So `libtest` seems like the best place for
them.
The tests themselves verify that dns_qpkey_fromname() behaves as
expected.
as there is no further use of isc_task in BIND, this commit removes
it, along with isc_taskmgr, isc_event, and all other related types.
functions that accepted taskmgr as a parameter have been cleaned up.
as a result of this change, some functions can no longer fail, so
they've been changed to type void, and their callers have been
updated accordingly.
the tasks table has been removed from the statistics channel and
the stats version has been updated. dns_dyndbctx has been changed
to reference the loopmgr instead of taskmgr, and DNS_DYNDB_VERSION
has been udpated as well.