when building without ISC_BUFFER_USEINLINE (which is the default on
Windows) an assertion failure could occur when setting up a new
isc_httpd_t object for the statistics channel.
Whenever an exact match is found by dns_rbt_findnode(),
the highest level node in the chain will not be put into
chain->levels[] array, but instead the chain->end
pointer will be adjusted to point to that node.
Suppose we have the following entries in a rpz zone:
example.com CNAME rpz-passthru.
*.example.com CNAME rpz-passthru.
A query for www.example.com would result in the
following chain object returned by dns_rbt_findnode():
chain->level_count = 2
chain->level_matches = 2
chain->levels[0] = .
chain->levels[1] = example.com
chain->levels[2] = NULL
chain->end = www
Since exact matches only care for testing rpz set bits,
we need to test for rpz wild bits through iterating the nodechain, and
that includes testing the rpz wild bits in the highest level node found.
In the case of an exact match, chain->levels[chain->level_matches]
will be NULL, to address that we must use chain->end as the start point,
then iterate over the remaining levels in the chain.
Creation of EVP_MD_CTX and EVP_PKEY is quite expensive, so until we fix the code
to reuse the OpenSSL contexts and keys we'll use our own implementation of
siphash instead of trying to integrate with OpenSSL.
There were several problems with rbt hashtable implementation:
1. Our internal hashing function returns uint64_t value, but it was
silently truncated to unsigned int in dns_name_hash() and
dns_name_fullhash() functions. As the SipHash 2-4 higher bits are
more random, we need to use the upper half of the return value.
2. The hashtable implementation in rbt.c was using modulo to pick the
slot number for the hash table. This has several problems because
modulo is: a) slow, b) oblivious to patterns in the input data. This
could lead to very uneven distribution of the hashed data in the
hashtable. Combined with the single-linked lists we use, it could
really hog-down the lookup and removal of the nodes from the rbt
tree[a]. The Fibonacci Hashing is much better fit for the hashtable
function here. For longer description, read "Fibonacci Hashing: The
Optimization that the World Forgot"[b] or just look at the Linux
kernel. Also this will make Diego very happy :).
3. The hashtable would rehash every time the number of nodes in the rbt
tree would exceed 3 * (hashtable size). The overcommit will make the
uneven distribution in the hashtable even worse, but the main problem
lies in the rehashing - every time the database grows beyond the
limit, each subsequent rehashing will be much slower. The mitigation
here is letting the rbt know how big the cache can grown and
pre-allocate the hashtable to be big enough to actually never need to
rehash. This will consume more memory at the start, but since the
size of the hashtable is capped to `1 << 32` (e.g. 4 mio entries), it
will only consume maximum of 32GB of memory for hashtable in the
worst case (and max-cache-size would need to be set to more than
4TB). Calling the dns_db_adjusthashsize() will also cap the maximum
size of the hashtable to the pre-computed number of bits, so it won't
try to consume more gigabytes of memory than available for the
database.
FIXME: What is the average size of the rbt node that gets hashed? I
chose the pagesize (4k) as initial value to precompute the size of
the hashtable, but the value is based on feeling and not any real
data.
For future work, there are more places where we use result of the hash
value modulo some small number and that would benefit from Fibonacci
Hashing to get better distribution.
Notes:
a. A doubly linked list should be used here to speedup the removal of
the entries from the hashtable.
b. https://probablydance.com/2018/06/16/fibonacci-hashing-the-optimization-that-the-world-forgot-or-a-better-alternative-to-integer-modulo/
Make sure bin/tests/system/run.sh returns a non-zero exit code if any of
the following happens:
- the test being run produces a core dump,
- assertion failures are found in the test's logs,
- ThreadSanitizer reports are found after the test completes,
- the servers started by the test fail to shut down cleanly.
This change is necessary to always fail a test in such cases (before the
migration to Automake, test failures were determined based on the
presence of "R:<test-name>:FAIL" lines in the test suite output and thus
it was not necessary for bin/tests/system/run.sh to return a non-zero
exit code).
Add an item to the release checklist to make sure confidential issues
assigned to the relevant milestone are made public after the BIND
versions addressing them are released.
