This commit ensures that only a limited number of requests is going to
be sent over a single HTTP/2 connection. Before that change was
introduced, it was possible to complete all of the planned sends via
only one transport connection, which undermines the purpose of the
tests using the quota facility.
The function should not be called here because it is, in general,
supposed to be called at the end of the transport level callbacks to
perform I/O, and thus, calling it here is clearly a mistake because it
breaks other code expectations. As a result of the call to
http_do_bio() from within isc__nm_http_request() the unit tests were
running slower than expected in some situations.
In this particular situation http_do_bio() is going to be called at
the end of the transport_connect_cb() (initially), or http_readcb(),
sending all of the scheduled requests at once.
This change affects only the test suite because it is the only place
in the codebase where isc__nm_http_request() is used in order to
ensure that the server is able to handle multiple HTTP/2 streams at
once.
This commit fixes a crash in DoH caused by transport handle to be
detached too early when sending outgoing data.
We need to attach to the session->handle earlier because as an
indirect result of the nghttp2_session_mem_send() the session might
get closed and the handle detached. However, there is still might be
some outgoing data to handle. Besides, even when the underlying socket
was closed via the handle, we still should try to attempt to send
outgoing data via isc_nm_send() to let it call write callback, passed
to the http_send_outgoing().
This commit gets rid of custom code taking care of response buffering
by replacing the custom code with isc_buffer_t. Also, it gets rid of
an unnecessary memory copying when sending a response.
This commit replaces the ad-hoc 64K buffer for incoming POST data with
isc_buffer_t backed by dynamically allocated buffer sized accordingly
to the value in the "Content-Length" header.
The commit replaces an ad-hoc incoming DNS-message buffer in the
client-side DoH code with isc_buffer_t.
The commit also fixes a timing issue in the unit tests revealed by the
change.
This commit replaces a static ad-hoc HTTP/2 session's temporary buffer
with a realloc-able isc_buffer_t object, which is being allocated on
as needed basis, lowering the memory consumption somewhat. The buffer
is needed in very rare cases, so allocating it prematurely is not
wise.
Also, it fixes a bug in http_readcb() where the ad-hoc buffer appeared
to be improperly used, leading to a situation when the processed data
from the receiving regions can be processed twice, while unprocessed
data will never be processed.
This commit gets rid of RW locks in a hot path of the DoH code. In the
original design, it was implied that we add new endpoints after the
HTTP listener was created. Such a design implies some locking. We do
not need such flexibility, though. Instead, we could build a set of
endpoints before the HTTP listener gets created. Such a design does
not need RW locks at all.
On the isc_mem water change the old water_t structure could be used
after free. Instead of introducing reference counting on the hot-path
we are going to introduce additional constraints on the
isc_mem_setwater. Once it's set for the first time, the additional
calls have to be made with the same water and water_arg arguments.
This commit makes number of concurrent HTTP/2 streams per connection
configurable as a mean to fight DDoS attacks. As soon as the limit is
reached, BIND terminates the whole session.
The commit adds a global configuration
option (http-streams-per-connection) which can be overridden in an
http <name> {...} statement like follows:
http local-http-server {
...
streams-per-connection 100;
...
};
For now the default value is 100, which should be enough (e.g. NGINX
uses 128, but it is a full-featured WEB-server). When using lower
numbers (e.g. ~70), it is possible to hit the limit with
e.g. flamethrower.
This commit adds support for http-listener-clients global options as
well as ability to override the default in an HTTP server description,
like:
http local-http-server {
...
listener-clients 100;
...
};
This way we have ability to specify per-listener active connections
quota globally and then override it when required. This is exactly
what AT&T requested us: they wanted a functionality to specify quota
globally and then override it for specific IPs. This change
functionality makes such a configuration possible.
It makes sense: for example, one could have different quotas for
internal and external clients. Or, for example, one could use BIND's
internal ability to serve encrypted DoH with some sane quota value for
internal clients, while having un-encrypted DoH listener without quota
to put BIND behind a load balancer doing TLS offloading for external
clients.
Moreover, the code no more shares the quota with TCP, which makes
little sense anyway (see tcp-clients option), because of the nature of
interaction of DoH clients: they tend to keep idle opened connections
for longer periods of time, preventing the TCP and TLS client from
being served. Thus, the need to have a separate, generally larger,
quota for them.
Also, the change makes any option within "http <name> { ... };"
statement optional, making it easier to override only required default
options.
By default, the DoH connections are limited to 300 per listener. I
hope that it is a good initial guesstimate.
This commit adds the code (and some tests) which allows verifying
validity of HTTP paths both in incoming HTTP requests and in BIND's
configuration file.
An unhandled code path left GET query string data uninitialised (equal
to NULL) and led to a crash during the requests' base64 data
decoding. This commit fixes that.
It was discovered that setting the thread affinity on both the netmgr
and netthread threads lead to inconsistent recursive performance because
sometimes the netmgr and netthread threads would compete over single
resource and sometimes not.
Removing setting the affinity causes a slight dip in the authoritative
performance around 5% (the measured range was from 3.8% to 7.8%), but
the recursive performance is now consistently good.
On OpenBSD and more generally on platforms without either jemalloc or
malloc_(usable_)size, we need to increase the alignment for the memory
to sizeof(max_align_t) as with plain sizeof(void *), the compiled code
would be crashing when accessing the returned memory.
It was discovered that on some platforms (f.e. Alpine Linux with MUSL)
the result of isc_os_ncpus() call differ when called before and after we
drop privileges. This commit changes the isc_os_ncpus() call to cache
the result from the first call and thus always return the same value
during the runtime of the named. The first call to isc_os_ncpus() is
made as soon as possible on the library initalization.
The isc_mem_get(), isc_mem_allocate() and isc_mem_reallocate() can
return NULL ptr in case where the allocation size is NULL. Remove the
nonnull attribute from the functions' declarations.
This stems from the following definition in the C11 standard:
> If the size of the space requested is zero, the behavior is
> implementation-defined: either a null pointer is returned, or the
> behavior is as if the size were some nonzero value, except that the
> returned pointer shall not be used to access an object.
In this case, we return NULL as it's easier to detect errors when
accessing pointer from zero-sized allocation which should obviously
never happen.
In the rallocx() shim for OpenBSD (that's the only platform that doesn't
have malloc_size() or malloc_usable_size() equivalent), the newly
allocated size was missing the extra size_t member for storing the
allocation size leading to size_t sized overflow at the end of the
reallocated memory chunk.
In the jemalloc merge request, we missed the fact that ah_frees and ah_handles
are reallocated which is not compatible with using isc_mem_get() for allocation
and isc_mem_put() for deallocation. This commit reverts that part and restores
use of isc_mem_allocate() and isc_mem_free().
Previously, the isc_mem_allocate() and isc_mem_free() would be used for
isc_mem_total test, but since we now use the real allocation
size (sallocx, malloc_size, malloc_usable_size) to track the allocation
size, it's impossible to get the test value right. Changing the test to
use isc_mem_get() and isc_mem_put() will use the exact size provided, so
the test would work again on all the platforms even when jemalloc is not
being used.
This commit refactors the water mechanism in the isc_mem API to use
single pointer to a water_t structure that can be swapped with
atomic_exchange operation instead of having four different
values (water, water_arg, hi_water, lo_water) in the flat namespace.
This reduces the need for locking and prevents a race when water and
water_arg could be desynchronized.
Calls to jemalloc extended API with size == 0 ends up in undefined
behaviour. This commit makes the isc_mem_get() and friends calls
more POSIX aligned:
If size is 0, either a null pointer or a unique pointer that can be
successfully passed to free() shall be returned.
We picked the easier route (which have been already supported in the old
code) and return NULL on calls to the API where size == 0.
This commit adds support for systems where the jemalloc library is not
available as a package, here's the quick summary:
* On Linux - the jemalloc is usually available as a package, if
configured --without-jemalloc, the shim would be used around
malloc(), free(), realloc() and malloc_usable_size()
* On macOS - the jemalloc is available from homebrew or macports, if
configured --without-jemalloc, the shim would be used around
malloc(), free(), realloc() and malloc_size()
* On FreeBSD - the jemalloc is *the* system allocator, we just need
to check for <malloc_np.h> header to get access to non-standard API
* On NetBSD - the jemalloc is *the* system allocator, we just need to
check for <jemalloc/jemalloc.h> header to get access to non-standard
API
* On a system hostile to users and developers (read OpenBSD) - the
jemalloc API is emulated by using ((size_t *)ptr)[-1] field to hold
the size information. The OpenBSD developers care only for
themselves, so why should we care about speed on OpenBSD?
- isc_mempool_get() can no longer fail; when there are no more objects
in the pool, more are always allocated. checking for NULL return is
no longer necessary.
- the isc_mempool_setmaxalloc() and isc_mempool_getmaxalloc() functions
are no longer used and have been removed.
Current mempools are kind of hybrid structures - they serve two
purposes:
1. mempool with a lock is basically static sized allocator with
pre-allocated free items
2. mempool without a lock is a doubly-linked list of preallocated items
The first kind of usage could be easily replaced with jemalloc small
sized arena objects and thread-local caches.
The second usage not-so-much and we need to keep this (in
libdns:message.c) for performance reasons.
Previously, we only had capability to trace the mempool gets and puts,
but for debugging, it's sometimes also important to keep track how many
and where do the memory pools get created and destroyed. This commit
adds such tracking capability.
The isc_mem_allocate() comes with additional cost because of the memory
tracking. In this commit, we replace the usage with isc_mem_get()
because we track the allocated sizes anyway, so it's possible to also
replace isc_mem_free() with isc_mem_put().
The jemalloc non-standard API fits nicely with our memory contexts, so
just rewrite the memory context internals to use the non-public API.
There's just one caveat - since we no longer track the size of the
allocation for isc_mem_allocate/isc_mem_free combination, we need to use
sallocx() to get real allocation size in both allocator and deallocator
because otherwise the sizes would not match.
The ISC_MEM_DEBUGSIZE and ISC_MEM_DEBUGCTX did sanity checks on matching
size and memory context on the memory returned to the allocator. Those
will no longer needed when most of the allocator will be replaced with
jemalloc.
There's global variable called `malloc_conf` that can be used to
configure jemalloc behaviour at the program startup. We use following
configuration:
* xmalloc:true - abort-on-out-of-memory enabled.
* background_thread:true - Enable internal background worker threads
to handle purging asynchronously.
* metadata_thp:auto - allow jemalloc to use transparent huge page
(THP) for internal metadata initially, but may begin to do so when
metadata usage reaches certain level.
* dirty_decay_ms:30000 - Approximate time in milliseconds from the
creation of a set of unused dirty pages until an equivalent set of
unused dirty pages is purged and/or reused.
* muzzy_decay_ms:30000 - Approximate time in milliseconds from the
creation of a set of unused muzzy pages until an equivalent set of
unused muzzy pages is purged and/or reused.
More information about the specific meaning can be found in the jemalloc
manpage or online at http://jemalloc.net/jemalloc.3.html
The jemalloc allocator is scalable high performance allocator, this is
the first in the series of commits that will add jemalloc as a memory
allocator for BIND 9.
This commit adds configure.ac check and Makefile modifications to use
jemalloc as BIND 9 allocator.
Previously, we only had capability to trace the memory gets and puts,
but for debugging, it's sometimes also important to keep track how many
and where do the memory contexts get created and destroyed. This commit
adds such tracking capability.
This commit makes BIND return HTTP status codes for malformed or too
small requests.
DNS request processing code would ignore such requests. Such an
approach works well for other DNS transport but does not make much
sense for HTTP, not allowing it to complete the request/response
sequence.
Suppose execution has reached the point where DNS message handling
code has been called. In that case, it means that the HTTP request has
been successfully processed, and, thus, we are expected to respond to
it either with a message containing some DNS payload or at least to
return an error status code. This commit ensures that BIND behaves
this way.
This error code fits better than the more generic "Internal Server
Error" (500) which implies that the problem is on the server.
Also, do not end the whole HTTP/2 session on a bad request.
We were too strict regarding the value and presence of "Accept" HTTP
header, slightly breaking compatibility with the specification.
According to RFC8484 client SHOULD add "Accept" header to the requests
but MUST be able to handle "application/dns-message" media type
regardless of the value of the header. That basically suggests we
ignore its value.
Besides, verifying the value of the "Accept" header is a bit tricky
because it could contain multiple media types, thus requiring proper
parsing. That is doable but does not provide us with any benefits.
Among other things, not verifying the value also fixes compatibility
with clients, which could advertise multiple media types as supported,
which we should accept. For example, it is possible for a perfectly
valid request to contain "application/dns-message", "application/*",
and "*/*" in the "Accept" header value. Still, we would treat such a
request as invalid.
The commit fixes BIND hanging when browsers end HTTP/2 streams
prematurely (for example, by sending RST_STREAM). It ensures that
isc__nmsocket_prep_destroy() will be called for an HTTP/2 stream,
allowing it to be properly disposed.
The problem was impossible to reproduce using dig or DoH benchmarking
software (e.g. flamethrower) because these do not tend to end HTTP/2
streams prematurely.
This commit adds two new autoconf options `--enable-doh` (enabled by
default) and `--with-libnghttp2` (mandatory when DoH is enabled).
When DoH support is disabled the library is not linked-in and support
for http(s) protocol is disabled in the netmgr, named and dig.
The isc/platform.h header was left empty which things either already
moved to config.h or to appropriate headers. This is just the final
cleanup commit.
The last remaining defines needed for platforms without NAME_MAX and
PATH_MAX (I'm looking at you, GNU Hurd) were moved to isc/dir.h where
it's prevalently used.
The ISC_STRERRORSIZE was defined in isc/platform.h header as the
value was different between Windows and POSIX platforms. Now that
Windows is gone, move the define to where it belongs.
