The __builtin_expect() can be used to provide the compiler with branch
prediction information. The Gcc manual says[1] on the subject:
In general, you should prefer to use actual profile feedback for
this (-fprofile-arcs), as programmers are notoriously bad at
predicting how their programs actually perform.
Stop using __builtin_expect() and ISC_LIKELY() and ISC_UNLIKELY() macros
to provide the branch prediction information as the performance testing
shows that named performs better when the __builtin_expect() is not
being used.
1. https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html#index-_005f_005fbuiltin_005fexpect
This commit fixes a crash in DoT code when it was attempting to call a
read callback on the later stages of the connection when it is not
available.
It also fixes [GL #2884] (back-trace provided in the bug report is
exactly the same as was seen when fixing this problem).
This commit makes BIND verify that zone transfers are allowed to be
done over the underlying connection. Currently, it makes sense only
for DoT, but the code is deliberately made to be protocol-agnostic.
The intention of having this function is to have a predicate to check
if a zone transfer could be performed over the given handle. In most
cases we can assume that we can do zone transfers over any stream
transport except DoH, but this assumption will not work for zone
transfers over DoT (XoT), as the RFC9103 requires ALPN to happen,
which might not be the case for all deployments of DoT.
- The `timeout_action` parameter to dns_dispatch_addresponse() been
replaced with a netmgr callback that is called when a dispatch read
times out. this callback may optionally reset the read timer and
resume reading.
- Added a function to convert isc_interval to milliseconds; this is used
to translate fctx->interval into a value that can be passed to
dns_dispatch_addresponse() as the timeout.
- Note that netmgr timeouts are accurate to the millisecond, so code to
check whether a timeout has been reached cannot rely on microsecond
accuracy.
- If serve-stale is configured, then a timeout received by the resolver
may trigger it to return stale data, and then resume waiting for the
read timeout. this is no longer based on a separate stale timer.
- The code for canceling requests in request.c has been altered so that
it can run asynchronously.
- TCP timeout events apply to the dispatch, which may be shared by
multiple queries. since in the event of a timeout we have no query ID
to use to identify the resp we wanted, we now just send the timeout to
the oldest query that was pending.
- There was some additional refactoring in the resolver: combining
fctx_join() and fctx_try_events() into one function to reduce code
duplication, and using fixednames in fetchctx and fetchevent.
- Incidental fix: new_adbaddrinfo() can't return NULL anymore, so the
code can be simplified.
- The read timer must always be stopped when reading stops.
- Read callbacks can now call isc_nm_read() again in TCP, TCPDNS and
TLSDNS; previously this caused an assertion.
- The wrong failure code could be sent after a UDP recv failure because
the if statements were in the wrong order. the check for a NULL
address needs to be after the check for an error code, otherwise the
result will always be set to ISC_R_EOF.
- When aborting a read or connect because the netmgr is shutting down,
use ISC_R_SHUTTINGDOWN. (ISC_R_CANCELED is now reserved for when the
read has been canceled by the caller.)
- A new function isc_nmhandle_timer_running() has been added enabling a
callback to check whether the timer has been reset after processing a
timeout.
- Incidental netmgr fix: always use isc__nm_closing() instead of
referencing sock->mgr->closing directly
- Corrected a few comments that used outdated function names.
Previously isc_nm_read() required references on the handle to be at
least 2, under the assumption that it would only ever be called from a
connect or accept callback. however, it can also be called from a read
callback, in which case the reference count might be only 1.
On TCPDNS/TLSDNS read callback, the socket buffer could be reallocated
if the received contents would be larger than the buffer. The existing
code would not preserve the contents of the existing buffer which lead
to the loss of the already received data.
This commit changes the isc_mem_put()+isc_mem_get() with isc_mem_reget()
to preserve the existing contents of the socket buffer.
The netmgr, has an internal cache for freed active handles. This cache
was allocated using isc_mem_allocate()/isc_mem_free() API because it was
simpler to reallocate the cache when we needed to grow it. The new
isc_mem_reget() function could be used here reducing the need to use
isc_mem_allocate() API which is tad bit slower than isc_mem_get() API.
This commit adds new function isc_nm_http_makeuri() which is supposed
to unify DoH URI construction throughout the codebase.
It handles IPv6 addresses, hostnames, and IPv6 addresses given as
hostnames properly, and replaces similar ad-hoc code in the codebase.
this commit removes isc__nm_tcpdns_keepalive() and
isc__nm_tlsdns_keepalive(); keepalive for these protocols and
for TCP will now be set directly from isc_nmhandle_keepalive().
protocols that have an underlying TCP socket (i.e., TLS stream
and HTTP), now have protocol-specific routines, called by
isc_nmhandle_keeaplive(), to set the keepalive value on the
underlying socket.
previously, receiving a keepalive option had no effect on how
long named would keep the connection open; there was a place to
configure the keepalive timeout but it was never used. this commit
corrects that.
this also fixes an error in isc__nm_{tcp,tls}dns_keepalive()
in which the sense of a REQUIRE test was reversed; previously this
error had not been noticed because the functions were not being
used.
- fix some duplicated and out-of-order prototypes declared in
netmgr-int.h
- rename isc_nm_tcpdns_keepalive to isc__nm_tcpdns_keepalive as
it's for internal use
This commit changes the DoH code in such a way that it makes no
assumptions regarding which headers are expected to be processed
first. In particular, the code expected the :method: pseudo-header to
be processed early, which might not be true.
Instead of disabling the fragmentation on the UDP sockets, we now
disable the Path MTU Discovery by setting IP(V6)_MTU_DISCOVER socket
option to IP_PMTUDISC_OMIT on Linux and disabling IP(V6)_DONTFRAG socket
option on FreeBSD. This option sets DF=0 in the IP header and also
ignores the Path MTU Discovery.
As additional mitigation on Linux, we recommend setting
net.ipv4.ip_no_pmtu_disc to Mode 3:
Mode 3 is a hardend pmtu discover mode. The kernel will only accept
fragmentation-needed errors if the underlying protocol can verify
them besides a plain socket lookup. Current protocols for which pmtu
events will be honored are TCP, SCTP and DCCP as they verify
e.g. the sequence number or the association. This mode should not be
enabled globally but is only intended to secure e.g. name servers in
namespaces where TCP path mtu must still work but path MTU
information of other protocols should be discarded. If enabled
globally this mode could break other protocols.
This commit changes TLS stream behaviour in such a way, that it is now
optimised for small writes. In the case there is a need to write less
or equal to 512 bytes, we could avoid calling the memory allocator at
the expense of possibly slight increase in memory usage. In case of
larger writes, the behviour remains unchanged.
At least at this point doing memory copying is not required. Probably
it was a workaround for some problem in the earlier days of DoH, at
this point it appears to be a waste of CPU cycles.
This commit significantly simplifies the code in http_send_outgoing()
as it was unnecessary complicated, because it was dealing with
multiple statically and dynamically allocated buffers, making it
extremely hard to follow, as well as making it to do unnecessary
memory copying in some situations. This commit fixes these issues,
while retaining the high level buffering logic.
When an HTTP/2 client terminates a session it means that it is about
to close the underlying connection. However, we were not doing that.
As a result, with the latest changes to the test suite, which made it
to limit amount of requests per a transport connection, the tests
using quota would hang for quite a while. This commit fixes that.
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.
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 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.
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().
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.
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().
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.
In DNS Flag Day 2020, we started setting the DF (Don't Fragment socket
option on the UDP sockets. It turned out, that this code was incomplete
leading to dropping the outgoing UDP packets.
This has been now remedied, so it is possible to disable the
fragmentation on the UDP sockets again as the sending error is now
handled by sending back an empty response with TC (truncated) bit set.
This reverts commit 66eefac78c92b64b6689a1655cc677a2b1d13496.
When the fragmentation is disabled on UDP sockets, the uv_udp_send()
call can fail with UV_EMSGSIZE for messages larger than path MTU.
Previously, this error would end with just discarding the response. In
this commit, a proper handling of such case is added and on such error,
a new DNS response with truncated bit set is generated and sent to the
client.
This change allows us to disable the fragmentation on the UDP
sockets again.
Previously, each protocol (TCPDNS, TLSDNS) has specified own function to
disable pipelining on the connection. An oversight would lead to
assertion failure when opcode is not query over non-TCPDNS protocol
because the isc_nm_tcpdns_sequential() function would be called over
non-TCPDNS socket. This commit removes the per-protocol functions and
refactors the code to have and use common isc_nm_sequential() function
that would either disable the pipelining on the socket or would handle
the request in per specific manner. Currently it ignores the call for
HTTP sockets and causes assertion failure for protocols where it doesn't
make sense to call the function at all.
The warning was produced by an ASAN build:
runtime error: null pointer passed as argument 2, which is declared to
never be null
This commit fixes it by checking if nghttp2_session_mem_send() has
actually returned anything.
