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Date:      Sat, 9 Jan 2021 20:27:57 +0300
From:      Vasily Postnicov <shamaz.mazum@gmail.com>
To:        Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DNS using Name Service Switch module and Casper
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Oh, I almost forgot. I am on f2b794e now

=D1=81=D0=B1, 9 =D1=8F=D0=BD=D0=B2. 2021 =D0=B3. =D0=B2 20:25, Vasily Postn=
icov <shamaz.mazum@gmail.com>:
>
> Brilliant! It took me almost a day to dive into ZeroMQ to reassure
> myself that there is nothing wrong with it. When I tried to write
> minimal test programs which call fork after pthread_create() in all
> combinations. When I realized that NSS stub module is what I need.
>
> Instructions:
>
> 1) Compile NSS stub module: cc -shared -fPIC -pthread -o
> nss_zerodns.so.1 test.c (Note '.1' at the end).
> 2) Copy nss_zerodns.so.1 to /usr/local/lib
> 3) Apply the patch src_sbin_ping_main.c to ping source code. With this
> patch ping will not quit too early when the initial call to
> getaddrinfo() fails.
> 4) Add stub module to /etc/nsswitch.conf: edit 'hosts' line to be
> 'hosts: files dns zerodns'
> 5) Ping non-existent host, like 'ping foo.bar'
> 6) Ping will hang. The child process which it creates cannot be killed
> even with killall -9 ping
>
> =D1=81=D0=B1, 9 =D1=8F=D0=BD=D0=B2. 2021 =D0=B3. =D0=B2 19:46, Mark Johns=
ton <markj@freebsd.org>:
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 09, 2021 at 04:16:49PM +0300, Vasily Postnicov wrote:
> > > Turns out, if you do not specify either -4 or -6 to ping, unsandboxed
> > > getaddrinfo() will be called in /usr/src/sbin/ping/main.c, line 139.
> > > (what's the point in sandboxing then, lol?) This somehow affects
> > > sandboxing.
> >
> > Indeed, that seems to be an issue with the recent merge of ping and
> > ping6.
> >
> > I guess the initial call to getaddrinfo() causes nsswitch.conf to be
> > parsed and your module is loaded before we fork().  The module is linke=
d
> > with libthr but obviously ping itself is not.  I'm sure this kind of
> > configuration worked at some point, there might have been a regression.
> >
> > If you can provide a stub NSS module that links libthr and demonstrates
> > the issue, it would be useful.
> >
> > > Look at the screenshot, it explains where fork() gets stuck.
> > > https://photos.app.goo.gl/T1B3Fo1hg6z7r3vZ6
> >
> > And there are no other threads in the process?



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