The rewrite of BIND 9 build system is a large work and cannot be reasonable
split into separate merge requests. Addition of the automake has a positive
effect on the readability and maintainability of the build system as it is more
declarative, it allows conditional and we are able to drop all of the custom
make code that BIND 9 developed over the years to overcome the deficiencies of
autoconf + custom Makefile.in files.
This squashed commit contains following changes:
- conversion (or rather fresh rewrite) of all Makefile.in files to Makefile.am
by using automake
- the libtool is now properly integrated with automake (the way we used it
was rather hackish as the only official way how to use libtool is via
automake
- the dynamic module loading was rewritten from a custom patchwork to libtool's
libltdl (which includes the patchwork to support module loading on different
systems internally)
- conversion of the unit test executor from kyua to automake parallel driver
- conversion of the system test executor from custom make/shell to automake
parallel driver
- The GSSAPI has been refactored, the custom SPNEGO on the basis that
all major KRB5/GSSAPI (mit-krb5, heimdal and Windows) implementations
support SPNEGO mechanism.
- The various defunct tests from bin/tests have been removed:
bin/tests/optional and bin/tests/pkcs11
- The text files generated from the MD files have been removed, the
MarkDown has been designed to be readable by both humans and computers
- The xsl header is now generated by a simple sed command instead of
perl helper
- The <irs/platform.h> header has been removed
- cleanups of configure.ac script to make it more simpler, addition of multiple
macros (there's still work to be done though)
- the tarball can now be prepared with `make dist`
- the system tests are partially able to run in oot build
Here's a list of unfinished work that needs to be completed in subsequent merge
requests:
- `make distcheck` doesn't yet work (because of system tests oot run is not yet
finished)
- documentation is not yet built, there's a different merge request with docbook
to sphinx-build rst conversion that needs to be rebased and adapted on top of
the automake
- msvc build is non functional yet and we need to decide whether we will just
cross-compile bind9 using mingw-w64 or fix the msvc build
- contributed dlz modules are not included neither in the autoconf nor automake
Previously, the dns_dt API used isc_thread_key API for TLS, which is
fairly complicated and requires initialization of memory contexts, etc.
This part of code was refactored to use a ISC_THREAD_LOCAL pointer which
greatly simplifies the whole code related to storing TLS variables.
Related scan-build report:
dnstap_test.c:169:2: warning: Value stored to 'result' is never read
result = dns_test_makeview("test", &view);
^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
dnstap_test.c:193:2: warning: Value stored to 'result' is never read
result = dns_compress_init(&cctx, -1, dt_mctx);
^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2 warnings generated.
All unit tests define the UNIT_TESTING macro, which causes <cmocka.h> to
replace malloc(), calloc(), realloc(), and free() with its own functions
tracking memory allocations. In order for this not to break
compilation, the system header declaring the prototypes for these
standard functions must be included before <cmocka.h>.
Normally, these prototypes are only present in <stdlib.h>, so we make
sure it is included before <cmocka.h>. However, musl libc also defines
the prototypes for calloc() and free() in <sched.h>, which is included
by <pthread.h>, which is included e.g. by <isc/mutex.h>. Thus, unit
tests including "dnstest.h" (which includes <isc/mem.h>, which includes
<isc/mutex.h>) after <cmocka.h> will not compile with musl libc as for
these programs, <sched.h> will be included after <cmocka.h>.
Always including <cmocka.h> after all other header files is not a
feasible solution as that causes the mock assertion macros defined in
<isc/util.h> to mangle the contents of <cmocka.h>, thus breaking
compilation. We cannot really use the __noreturn__ or analyzer_noreturn
attributes with cmocka assertion functions because they do return if the
tested condition is true. The problem is that what BIND unit tests do
is incompatible with Clang Static Analyzer's assumptions: since we use
cmocka, our custom assertion handlers are present in a shared library
(i.e. it is the cmocka library that checks the assertion condition, not
a macro in unit test code). Redefining cmocka's assertion macros in
<isc/util.h> is an ugly hack to overcome that problem - unfortunately,
this is the only way we can think of to make Clang Static Analyzer
properly process unit test code. Giving up on Clang Static Analyzer
being able to properly process unit test code is not a satisfactory
solution.
Undefining _GNU_SOURCE for unit test code could work around the problem
(musl libc's <sched.h> only defines the prototypes for calloc() and
free() when _GNU_SOURCE is defined), but doing that could introduce
discrepancies for unit tests including entire *.c files, so it is also
not a good solution.
All in all, including <sched.h> before <cmocka.h> for all affected unit
tests seems to be the most benign way of working around this musl libc
quirk. While quite an ugly solution, it achieves our goals here, which
are to keep the benefit of proper static analysis of unit test code and
to fix compilation against musl libc.
The common construct seen in the BIND 9 source is func(isc_mem_t *mctx, ...).
Unfortunately, the dnstest.{h,c} has been using mctx as a global symbol, which
in turn generated a lot of errors when update.c got included in update_test.c.
As a rule of thumb, we should avoid naming global symbols with generic names
(like mctx) and we should prefix them with "namespace" (like dt_mctx).
Change to cmocka broken initialization of TZ environment. This time,
commit 1cf12540515e4a3fc93ace02b81815209f1e709e is not soon enough. Has
to be moved more forward, before any other tests. It library is not full
reinitialized on each test.
Replace dns_fixedname_init() calls followed by dns_fixedname_name()
calls with calls to dns_fixedname_initname() where it is possible
without affecting current behavior and/or performance.
This patch was mostly prepared using Coccinelle and the following
semantic patch:
@@
expression fixedname, name;
@@
- dns_fixedname_init(&fixedname);
...
- name = dns_fixedname_name(&fixedname);
+ name = dns_fixedname_initname(&fixedname);
The resulting set of changes was then manually reviewed to exclude false
positives and apply minor tweaks.
It is likely that more occurrences of this pattern can be refactored in
an identical way. This commit only takes care of the low-hanging fruit.
4235. [func] Added support in named for "dnstap", a fast method of
capturing and logging DNS traffic, and a new command
"dnstap-read" to read a dnstap log file. Use
"configure --enable-dnstap" to enable this
feature (note that this requires libprotobuf-c
and libfstrm). See the ARM for configuration details.
Thanks to Robert Edmonds of Farsight Security.
[RT #40211]
