As indicated by BZ#23178, concurrent access on some files read by nscd
may result non expected data send through service requisition. This is
due 'sendfile' Linux implementation where for sockets with zero-copy
support, callers must ensure the transferred portions of the the file
reffered by input file descriptor remain unmodified until the reader
on the other end of socket has consumed the transferred data.
I could not find any explicit documentation stating this behaviour on
Linux kernel documentation. However man-pages sendfile entry [1] states
in NOTES the aforementioned remark. It was initially pushed on man-pages
with an explicit testcase [2] that shows changing the file used in
'sendfile' call prior the socket input data consumption results in
previous data being lost.
From commit message it stated on tested Linux version (3.15) only TCP
socket showed this issues, however on recent kernels (4.4) I noticed the
same behaviour for local sockets as well.
Since sendfile on HURD is a read/write operation and the underlying
issue on Linux, the straightforward fix is just remove sendfile use
altogether. I am really skeptical it is hitting some hotstop (there
are indication over internet that sendfile is helpfull only for large
files, more than 10kb) here to justify that extra code complexity or
to pursuit other possible fix (through memory or file locks for
instance, which I am not sure it is doable).
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
[BZ #23178]
* nscd/nscd-client.h (sendfileall): Remove prototype.
* nscd/connections.c [HAVE_SENDFILE] (sendfileall): Remove function.
(handle_request): Use writeall instead of sendfileall.
* nscd/aicache.c (addhstaiX): Likewise.
* nscd/grpcache.c (cache_addgr): Likewise.
* nscd/hstcache.c (cache_addhst): Likewise.
* nscd/initgrcache.c (addinitgroupsX): Likewise.
* nscd/netgroupcache.c (addgetnetgrentX, addinnetgrX): Likewise.
* nscd/pwdcache.c (cache_addpw): Likewise.
* nscd/servicescache.c (cache_addserv): Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Makefile [$(subdir) == nscd]
(sysdep-CFLAGS): Remove -DHAVE_SENDFILE.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h (__ASSUME_SENDFILE):
Remove define.
[1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/sendfile.2.html
[2] 7b6a329977 (diff-efd6af3a70f0f07c578e85b51e83b3c3)
PTHREAD_RWLOCK_WRITER_NONRECURSIVE_INITIALIZER_NP is Linux-only.
* nscd/connections.c (RWLOCK_INITIALIZER): Define to
PTHREAD_RWLOCK_WRITER_NONRECURSIVE_INITIALIZER_NP or
PTHREAD_RWLOCK_INITIALIZER if that is not available.
(dbs): Use RWLOCK_INITIALIZER instead of
PTHREAD_RWLOCK_WRITER_NONRECURSIVE_INITIALIZER_NP.
Current GCC mainline detects that nscd calls readlink with the same
buffer for both input and output, which is not valid (those arguments
are both restrict-qualified in POSIX). This patch makes it use a
separate buffer for readlink's input (with a size that is sufficient
to avoid truncation, so there should be no problems with warnings
about possible truncation, though not strictly minimal, but much
smaller than the buffer for output) to avoid this problem.
Tested compilation for aarch64-linux-gnu with build-many-glibcs.py.
[BZ #22446]
* nscd/connections.c (handle_request) [SO_PEERCRED]: Use separate
buffers for readlink input and output.
Simplify the Linux accept4 implementation based on the assumption
that it is available in some way. __ASSUME_ACCEPT4_SOCKETCALL was
previously unused, so remove it.
For ia64, the accept4 system call (and socket call) were backported
in kernel version 3.2.18. Reflect this in the installation
instructions.
posix/wordexp-test.c used libc-internal.h for PTR_ALIGN_DOWN; similar
to what was done with libc-diag.h, I have split the definitions of
cast_to_integer, ALIGN_UP, ALIGN_DOWN, PTR_ALIGN_UP, and PTR_ALIGN_DOWN
to a new header, libc-pointer-arith.h.
It then occurred to me that the remaining declarations in libc-internal.h
are mostly to do with early initialization, and probably most of the
files including it, even in the core code, don't need it anymore. Indeed,
only 19 files actually need what remains of libc-internal.h. 23 others
need libc-diag.h instead, and 12 need libc-pointer-arith.h instead.
No file needs more than one of them, and 16 don't need any of them!
So, with this patch, libc-internal.h stops including libc-diag.h as
well as losing the pointer arithmetic macros, and all including files
are adjusted.
* include/libc-pointer-arith.h: New file. Define
cast_to_integer, ALIGN_UP, ALIGN_DOWN, PTR_ALIGN_UP, and
PTR_ALIGN_DOWN here.
* include/libc-internal.h: Definitions of above macros
moved from here. Don't include libc-diag.h anymore either.
* posix/wordexp-test.c: Include stdint.h and libc-pointer-arith.h.
Don't include libc-internal.h.
* debug/pcprofile.c, elf/dl-tunables.c, elf/soinit.c, io/openat.c
* io/openat64.c, misc/ptrace.c, nptl/pthread_clock_gettime.c
* nptl/pthread_clock_settime.c, nptl/pthread_cond_common.c
* string/strcoll_l.c, sysdeps/nacl/brk.c
* sysdeps/unix/clock_settime.c
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/get_clockfreq.c
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ia64/get_clockfreq.c
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/get_clockfreq.c
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/get_clockfreq.c:
Don't include libc-internal.h.
* elf/get-dynamic-info.h, iconv/loop.c
* iconvdata/iso-2022-cn-ext.c, locale/weight.h, locale/weightwc.h
* misc/reboot.c, nis/nis_table.c, nptl_db/thread_dbP.h
* nscd/connections.c, resolv/res_send.c, soft-fp/fmadf4.c
* soft-fp/fmasf4.c, soft-fp/fmatf4.c, stdio-common/vfscanf.c
* sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_lgamma_r.c
* sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/k_rem_pio2.c
* sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32/e_lgammaf_r.c
* sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32/k_rem_pio2f.c
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-128/k_tanl.c
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-128ibm/k_tanl.c
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96/e_lgammal_r.c
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96/k_tanl.c, sysdeps/nptl/futex-internal.h:
Include libc-diag.h instead of libc-internal.h.
* elf/dl-load.c, elf/dl-reloc.c, locale/programs/locarchive.c
* nptl/nptl-init.c, string/strcspn.c, string/strspn.c
* malloc/malloc.c, sysdeps/i386/nptl/tls.h
* sysdeps/nacl/dl-map-segments.h, sysdeps/x86_64/atomic-machine.h
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/spawni.c
* sysdeps/x86_64/nptl/tls.h:
Include libc-pointer-arith.h instead of libc-internal.h.
* elf/get-dynamic-info.h, sysdeps/nacl/dl-map-segments.h
* sysdeps/x86_64/atomic-machine.h:
Add multiple include guard.
In bug 14906 the user complains that the inotify support in nscd
is not sufficient when it comes to detecting changes in the
configurationfiles that should be watched for the various databases.
The current nscd implementation uses inotify to watch for changes in
the configuration files, but adds watches only for IN_DELETE_SELF and
IN_MODIFY. These watches are insufficient to cover even the most basic
uses by a system administrator. For example using emacs or vim to edit
a configuration file should trigger a reload but it might not if
the editors use move to atomically update the file. This atomic update
changes the inode and thus removes the notification on the file (as
inotify is based on inodes). Thus the inotify support in nscd for
configuration files is insufficient to account for the average use
cases of system administrators and users.
The inotify support is significantly enhanced and described here:
https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-02/msg00504.html
Tested on x86_64 with and without inotify support.
This patch avoids warnings for unused results of setuid and setgid in
nscd/connections.c using an ignore_value macro along the lines
suggested by Paul in
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-11/msg00733.html>.
Tested for x86_64.
* include/libc-internal.h (ignore_value): New macro.
* nscd/connections.c (restart): Wrap calls to setuid and setgid
with ignore_value.
Currently, the nscd parent process parses commandline options and
configuration, forks on startup and immediately exits with a success.
If the child process encounters some error after this, it goes
undetected and any services started up after it may have to repeatedly
check to make sure that the nscd service did actually start up and is
serving requests.
To make this process more reliable, I have added a pipe between the
parent and child process, through which the child process sends a
notification to the parent informing it of its status. The parent
waits for this status and once it receives it, exits with the
corresponding exit code. So if the child service sends a success
status (0), the parent exits with a success status. Similarly for
error conditions, the child sends the non-zero status code, which the
parent passes on as the exit code.
This, along with setting the nscd service type to forking in its
systemd configuration file, allows systemd to be certain that the nscd
service is ready and is accepting connections.
We refactor the inotify file checking code and the
database clearing code out of the main_loop_poll and
mail_loop_epoll functions. We document some the related
functions with appropriate comments.
Whenever getaddrinfo needed network interface information it used the
netlink interface to read the information every single time. The
problem is that this information can change at any time.
The patch implements monitoring of the network interfaces through
nscd. If no change is detected the previously read information can
be reused (which is the norm). This timestamp information is also
made available to other processes using the shared memory segment
between nscd and those processes.
nscd can clear caches when certain files change. The list of files
was hardcoded so far and worked for nss_files and nss_dns and those
modules which need no monitoring. nss_db, for instance, has its
own set of files to monitor. Now the NSS modules themselves can
request that certain files are monitored.
2009-02-13 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
[BZ #5381]
* nscd/nscd.h: Remove definitions and declarations for mem_in_flight.
Change mempool_alloc prototype.
* nscd/mem.c (gc): Don't handle mem_in_flight.
(mempool_alloc): Third parameter now only indicates whether this is the
first call (to allocate data) or not. If it is, get db rdlock.
Release it on error. Don't handle mem_in_flight.
* nscd/aicache.c (addhstaiX): Mark he parameter as const.
Adjust third parameter of mempool_alloc calls.
Nothing to do here in case mempool_alloc fails.
Avoid local variable shadowing parameter. No need to get db rdlock
before calling cache_add.
* nscd/cache.c (cache_add): Adjust call to mempool_alloc. There is
no mem_in_flight array anymore.
* nscd/connections.c: Remove definition and handling of mem_in_flight.
* nscd/grpcache.c (cache_addgr): Adjust third parameter of
mempool_alloc calls. Mark he parameter as const. Nothing to do here
in case mempool_alloc fails. No need to get db rdlock before calling
cache_add.
* nscd/hstcache.c (cache_addhst): Likewise.
* nscd/initgrcache.c (addinitgroupsX): Likewise.
* nscd/servicescache.c (cache_addserv): Likewise.
* nscd/pwdcache.c (cache_addpw): Likewise. Remove some debugging code.
2008-12-03 Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
[BZ #7067]
* nscd/connections.c (invalidate_cache): Use prune_run_lock
instead of prune_lock.
(nscd_run_prune): Before calling prune_cache, take prune_run_lock.
* nscd/nscd.h (database_dyn): Add prune_run_cache.
__ASSUME_PACCEPT, __ASSUME_IN_NONBLOCK, and __ASSUME_PACCEPT if
appropriate.
* nscd/connections.c: Avoid fcntl calls to set close-on-exec flag and
non-blocking mode by using socket, paccept, and inotify_init1.
