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.
The _nss_*_getnetgrent_r query populates the netgroup results in the
allocated buffer and then sets the result triplet to point to strings
in the buffer. This is a problem when the buffer is reallocated since
the pointers to the triplet strings are no longer valid. The pointers
need to be adjusted so that they now point to strings in the
reallocated buffer.
addgetnetgrentX has a buffer which is grown as per the needs of the
requested size either by using alloca or by falling back to malloc if
the size is larger than 1K. There are two problems with the alloca
bits: firstly, it doesn't really extend the buffer since it does not
use the return value of the extend_alloca macro, which is the location
of the reallocated buffer. Due to this the buffer does not actually
extend itself and hence a subsequent write may overwrite stuff on the
stack.
The second problem is more subtle - the buffer growth on the stack is
discontinuous due to block scope local variables. Combine that with
the fact that unlike realloc, extend_alloca does not copy over old
content and you have a situation where the buffer just has garbage in
the space where it should have had data.
This could have been fixed by adding code to copy over old data
whenever we call extend_alloca, but it seems unnecessarily
complicated. This code is not exactly a performance hotspot (it's
called when there is a cache miss, so factors like network lookup or
file reads will dominate over memory allocation/reallocation), so this
premature optimization is unnecessary.
Thanks Brad Hubbard <bhubbard@redhat.com> for his help with debugging
the problem.
Usage output for option --invalidate=TABLE is not helpful without
list of tables. The list is also missing from nscd(8) manual which
made it pretty difficult to know what are the tables.
nscd incorrectly returns a success even when the netgroup in question
is not found and adds a positive result in the cache. this patch
fixes this behaviour by adding a negative lookup entry to cache and
returning an error when the netgroup is not found.
Currently, when a user looks up a netgroup that does not have any
members, nscd goes into an infinite loop trying to find members in the
group. This is because it does not handle cases when getnetgrent
returns an NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND (which is what it does on empty group).
Fixed to handle this in the same way as NSS_STATUS_RETURN, similar to
what getgrent does by itself.
Autoconf has been deprecating configure.in for quite a long time.
Rename all our configure.in and preconfigure.in files to .ac.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
These prototypes are duplicated in many places. Add a dedicated
header for holding prototypes for program-specific functions to
avoid that.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
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.
* nscd/grpcache.c (cache_addgr): Rename alloca_used to
dataset_temporary. Track alloca usage into alloca_used.
If dataset is large allocate and release it via malloc/free.
Commit 61653dfb81 added support for
compilers predefining _FORTIFY_SOURCE by adding -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE to
CPPFLAGS for these compilers, but that change doesn't work quite well in
case of nscd: its Makefile sets _FORTIFY_SOURCE using CFLAGS instead of
CPPFLAGS and, thanks to compilation rules defined in Makerules, CPPFLAGS
are passed to compiler after CFLAGS, resulting to a build with
_FORTIFY_SOURCE turned off.
This change implements a more safe method of passing preprocessor and
compiler flags so that no nscd modules could be accidentally forgotten.
2012-05-09 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
* nscd/nscd.c (run_modes): Make named enum, reorder so that
default is first entry.
(run_mode): Set type.
(main): Remove informal message about syslog.
(options): Fix typo.
For a better integration of nscd with systemd, we should run nscd not as
daemon but in the foreground. A new --foreground option should be added.
2012-05-09 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
* nscd/nscd.c (go_background): Replaced with...
(run_mode): ... this.
(RUN_FOREGROUND, RUN_DAEMONIZE, RUN_DEBUG): Add.
(options): Add -F --foreground.
(main): Implement it.
(parse_opt): Parse it.
