Trusty has 0034-fix_dovecot_authentication.patch, but it lacks the above
fix as well.
** Also affects: cyrus-sasl2 (Ubuntu Trusty)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags removed: precise
** Tags added: server-next
** Changed in: cyrus-sasl2 (Ubuntu Trusty)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: cyrus-sasl2 (Ubuntu Xenial)
Status: New => Triaged
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/997217
Title:
salsauthd maxes cpu
Status in cyrus-sasl2 package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in cyrus-sasl2 source package in Precise:
Won't Fix
Status in cyrus-sasl2 source package in Trusty:
Triaged
Status in cyrus-sasl2 source package in Xenial:
Triaged
Bug description:
sasl2-bin version 2.1.24~rc1.dfsg1+cvs2011-05-23-4ubuntu contains a
bug that causes heavy cpu utilization, impacting normal operation of
one of our mail servers following an upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04.
We are running the daemon with the following options:
/usr/sbin/saslauthd -a rimap -O our.imap.server -r -m
/var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -n 5
We noticed that users were unable to send mail and that the saslauthd
processes were using approximately 100% of each cpu core. An strace of one of
the runaway process showed that it was stuck in the following behaviour:
select(9, [8], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 1 (in [8], left {0, 0})
read(8, "", 940) = 0
select(9, [8], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 1 (in [8], left {0, 0})
read(8, "", 940) = 0
select(9, [8], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 1 (in [8], left {0, 0})
read(8, "", 940) = 0
select(9, [8], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 1 (in [8], left {0, 0})
read(8, "", 940) = 0
select(9, [8], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 1 (in [8], left {0, 0})
read(8, "", 940) = 0
select(9, [8], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 1 (in [8], left {0, 0})
read(8, "", 940) = 0
select(9, [8], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 1 (in [8], left {0, 0})
read(8, "", 940) = 0
.....
with further inspection showing that the file descriptor in question was a
socket connected to our imap server in CLOSE_WAIT.
Browsing saslauthd/auth_rimap.c in the source package for sasl2-bin,
we came across the following code, repeated in two locations:
while( select (fds, &perm, NULL, NULL, &timeout ) >0 ) {
if ( FD_ISSET(s, &perm) ) {
ret = read(s, rbuf+rc, sizeof(rbuf)-rc);
if ( ret<0 ) {
rc = ret;
break;
} else {
rc += ret;
}
}
}
It looks like this loop is expected to run until a read error is encountered
or the timeout of 1 second is reached. There is no test to check that 0 bytes
were read, indicating that the connection was closed by the remote peer. Since
select() will immediately return the size of the set of the partially closed
descriptor (1, which is >0), and calls to read() will always yield 0 bytes,
there's the potential for execution to get stuck in this non blocking loop and
I'm presuming that that's what's happening here.
We've not performed any further analysis to prove that this is really
what's happening but if my intuition is correct then our IMAP server
(an nginx imap proxy) most liklely closes the connection at an
unexpected time under as yet undetermined conditions.
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