The pytest "cacheprovider" plugin produces a .cache/v/cache/lastfailed
file, which holds a Python dictionary structure with failed tests.
However, on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) the file is created even though the
test passed and the file contains just an empty dictionary ("{}").
Given that we are not interested in this feature, disabling the
"cacheprovider" plugin globally and removing per-test removals of the
.cache directory seems like the best course of action.
Define a :gl: Sphinx role that takes a GitLab issue/MR number as an
argument and creates a hyperlink to the relevant ISC GitLab URL. This
makes it easy to reach ISC GitLab pages directly from the release notes.
Make all GitLab references in the release notes use the new Sphinx role.
When the `named` would hang on startup it would be killed with SIGKILL
leaving us with no information about the state the process was in.
This commit changes the start.pl script to send SIGABRT instead, so we
can properly collect and process the coredump from the hung named
process.
When reducing the number of NSEC3 iterations to 150, commit
aa26cde2aea459d682f6f609a7c902ef9a7a35eb added tests for dnssec-policy
to check that a too high iteration count is a configuration failure.
The test is not sufficient because 151 was always too high for
ECDSAP256SHA256. The test should check for a different algorithm.
There was an existing test case that checks for NSEC3 iterations.
Update the test with the new maximum values.
Update the code in 'kaspconf.c' to allow at most 150 iterations.
[CVE-2021-25215] Properly answer queries for DNAME records that require the DNAME to be processed to resolve itself
See merge request isc-private/bind9!253
When answering a query, named should never attempt to add the same RRset
to the ANSWER section more than once. However, such a situation may
arise when chasing DNAME records: one of the DNAME records placed in the
ANSWER section may turn out to be the final answer to a client query,
but there is no way to know that in advance. Tweak the relevant INSIST
assertion in query_respond() so that it handles this case properly.
qctx->rdataset is freed later anyway, so there is no need to clean it up
in query_respond().
If a zone transfer results in a zone not having any NS records, named
stops serving it because such a zone is broken. Do the same if an
incoming zone transfer results in a zone lacking an SOA record at the
apex or containing more than one SOA record.
An IXFR containing SOA records with owner names different than the
transferred zone's origin can result in named serving a version of that
zone without an SOA record at the apex. This causes a RUNTIME_CHECK
assertion failure the next time such a zone is refreshed. Fix by
immediately rejecting a zone transfer (either an incremental or
non-incremental one) upon detecting an SOA record not placed at the apex
of the transferred zone.
While working on the serve-stale backports, I noticed the following
oddities:
1. In the serve-stale system test, in one case we keep track of the
time how long it took for dig to complete. In commit
aaed7f9d8c2465790d769221dfe8378c7147f5eb, the code removed the
exception to check for result == ISC_R_SUCCESS on stale found
answers, and adjusted the test accordingly. This failed to update
the time tracking accordingly. Move the t1/t2 time track variables
back around the two dig commands to ensure the lookups resolved
faster than the resolver-query-timeout.
2. We can remove the setting of NS_QUERYATTR_STALEOK and
DNS_RDATASETATTR_STALE_ADDED on the "else if (stale_timeout)"
code path, because they are added later when we know we have
actually found a stale answer on a stale timeout lookup.
3. We should clear the NS_QUERYATTR_STALEOK flag from the client
query attributes instead of DNS_RDATASETATTR_STALE_ADDED (that
flag is set on the rdataset attributes).
4. In 'bin/named/config.c' we should set the configuration options
in alpabetical order.
5. In the ARM, in the backports we have added "(stale)" between
"cached" and "RRset" to make more clear a stale RRset may be
returned in this scenario.
Exerting excessive I/O load on the host running system tests should be
avoided in order to limit the number of false positives reported by the
system test suite. In some cases, running named with "-d 99" (which is
the default for system tests) results in a massive amount of logs being
generated, most of which are useless. Implement a log file size check
to draw developers' attention to overly verbose named instances used in
system tests. The warning threshold of 200,000 lines was chosen
arbitrarily.
The regression test for CVE-2020-8620 causes a lot of useless messages
to be logged. However, globally decreasing the log level for the
affected named instance would be a step too far as debugging information
may be useful for troubleshooting other checks in the "tcp" system test.
Starting a separate named instance for a single check should be avoided
when possible and thus is also not a good solution. As a compromise,
run "rndc trace 1" for the affected named instance before starting the
regression test for CVE-2020-8620.
The system test framework starts all named instances with the "-d 99"
command line option (unless it is overridden by a named.args file in a
given instance's working directory). This causes a lot of log messages
to be written to named.run files - currently over 5 million lines for a
single test suite run. While debugging information preserved in the log
files is essential for troubleshooting intermittent test failures, some
system tests involve sending hundreds or even thousands of queries,
which causes the relevant log files to explode in size. When multiple
tests (or even multiple test suites) are run in parallel, excessive
logging contributes considerably to the I/O load on the test host,
increasing the odds of intermittent test failures getting triggered.
Decrease the debug level for the seven most verbose named instances:
- use "-d 3" for ns2 in the "cacheclean" system test (it is the lowest
logging level at which the test still passes without the need to
apply any changes to tests.sh),
- use "-d 1" for the other six named instances.
This roughly halves the number of lines logged by each test suite run
while still leaving enough information in the logs to allow at least
basic troubleshooting in case of test failures.
This approach was chosen as it results in a greater decrease in the
number of lines logged than running all named instances with "-d 3",
without causing any test failures.
