BIND 9.4.x vs 9.6.x - pid-file check and creation

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Mon Jan 26 09:29:00 UTC 2009


In message <200901260800.n0Q80lkH017744 at mail49.nsc.no>, Jan Arild =?iso-8859-1?
Q?Lindstr=F8m?= writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> just to clarify that Solaris really is different from Linux:
> 
>         ns12(root) / 503# su - named
>         Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.10      Generic January 2005
>         -bash-3.00$ ls -la /var/run/named/
>         total 80
>         drwxr-s---   4 named    named        307 Jan 26 08:22 .
>         drwxr-xr-x   7 root     sys         1285 Jan 26 00:52 ..
>         -rw-r--r--   1 named    named          6 Jan 26 06:41 named.pid
>         -bash-3.00$ mkdir /var/run/named
>         mkdir: Failed to make directory "/var/run/named"; Permission denied
> 
>         dns-nms(root) ~ 1003# su - named
>         -bash-3.1$ uname -sr
>         Linux 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5
>         (reverse-i-search)`': =
> 
>         -bash-3.1$ ls -la /var/run/named/
>         total 20
>         drwxr-s---  3 named named 4096 Jan 26 08:48 .
>         drwxr-sr-x 24 root  root    4096 Jan 26 08:22 ..
>         -rw-r--r--  1 named named    6 Jan 26 08:48 named.pid
>         -bash-3.1$ mkdir /var/run/named
>         mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/run/named': File exists
> 
> That is, when the diretory exists and is fully writable on Solaris 10, you =
> still get
> "Permission denied", while you on Linux get "File exists". =
> 
> 
> I'd say Solaris 10 first checks if the user have permissions to create the =
> directory =
> 
> before it checks if it exists.
> 
> So I would say the code for creating the pid-file has been changed between =
> 9.4.3 =
> 
> and 9.6.0-P1, and that a bug has been introduced on Solaris.

	It was changed as part of this change.

2486.   [func]          The default locations for named.pid and lwresd.pid
                        are now /var/run/named/named.pid and
                        /var/run/lwresd/lwresd.pid respectively.

                        This allows the owner of the containing directory
                        to be set, for "named -u" support, and allows there
                        to be a permanent symbolic link in the path, for
                        "named -t" support.  [RT #18306]

> Regards
> Jan Arild Lindstr=F8m
> 
> 
> 
> At 08:42 26/01/2009, Jan Arild Lindstr=F8m wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I was going to upgrade from BIND 9.4.3 to BIND 9.6.0-P1, but run into a =
> 
> >strange "bug" in BIND 9.6.0-P1.
> >
> >Exact same config for 9.4.3 and 9.6.0-P1, only added "new" to files that =
> 
> >are written to (namednew.log, confignew.log and namednew.pid).
> >
> >OS: Solaris 10.
> >
> >Using:
> >        pid-file "/var/run/named/namednew.pid";
> >
> >.. result in the following:
> >
> >namednew.log:
> >26-Jan-2009 08:14:22.723 general: couldn't mkdir /var/run/named/namednew.p=
> id': Permission denied
> >26-Jan-2009 08:14:22.728 general: exiting (due to early fatal error)
> >
> >BIND 9.6.0-P1 truss.out:
> >--CUT--
> >25123/65:       stat("/dev/urandom", 0xFFFFFFFF79D0FA00)        =3D 0
> >25123/65:       open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK)       =3D 9
> >25123/65:       fcntl(9, F_GETFL)                               =3D 8320
> >25123/65:       fcntl(9, F_SETFL, FOFFMAX|FNONBLOCK)            =3D 0
> >25123/65:       setgid(21)                                      =3D 0
> >25123/65:       setuid(21)                                      =3D 0
> >25123/65:       access(".", W_OK)                               =3D 0
> >25123/65:       open("/var/log/namednew.log", O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_CREAT, 0=
> 666) =3D 10
> >25123/65:       lseek(10, 0, SEEK_END)                          =3D 332
> >25123/65:       close(10)                                       =3D 0
> >25123/65:       open("/var/log/confignew.log", O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_CREAT, =
> 0666) =3D 10
> >25123/65:       lseek(10, 0, SEEK_END)                          =3D 0
> >25123/65:       close(10)                                       =3D 0
> >25123/65:       mkdir("/var/run/named", 0755)                   Err#13 EAC=
> CES [ALL]
> >25123/65:       stat("/var/log/namednew.log", 0xFFFFFFFF79D0F3C0) =3D 0
> >25123/65:       open("/var/log/namednew.log", O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_CREAT, 0=
> 666) =3D 10
> >25123/65:       lseek(10, 0, SEEK_END)                          =3D 332
> >25123/65:       fstat(10, 0xFFFFFFFF79D0E540)                   =3D 0
> >25123/65:       fstat(10, 0xFFFFFFFF79D0E410)                   =3D 0
> >25123/65:       ioctl(10, TCGETA, 0xFFFFFFFF79D0E47C)           Err#25 ENO=
> TTY
> >25123/65:       write(10, 0x10502E754, 97)                      =3D 97
> >25123/65:          2 6 - J a n - 2 0 0 9   0 8 : 1 4 : 2 2 . 7 2 3   g e n=
>  e r a l
> >25123/65:          :   c o u l d n ' t   m k d i r   / v a r / r u n / n a=
>  m e d /
> >25123/65:          n a m e d n e w . p i d ' :   P e r m i s s i o n   d e=
>  n i e d
> >25123/65:         \n
> >25123/65:       write(10, 0x10502E754, 69)                      =3D 69
> >25123/65:          2 6 - J a n - 2 0 0 9   0 8 : 1 4 : 2 2 . 7 2 8   g e n=
>  e r a l
> >25123/65:          :   e x i t i n g   ( d u e   t o   e a r l y   f a t a=
>  l   e r
> >25123/65:          r o r )\n
> >25123/65:       _exit(1)
> >
> >It fails because it tries to just create the /var/run/named directory inst=
> ead
> >of cheking if the directory exist and if it can write to it. =
> 
> >
> >ns12(root) named 515# ls -la /var/run/named
> >total 40
> >drwxr-s---    4 named    named         307 Jan 26 06:51 ./
> >drwxr-xr-x    7 root     sys          1285 Jan 26 00:52 ../
> >-rw-r--r--    1 named    named           6 Jan 26 06:41 named.pid
> >
> >So /var/run/named exists and is fully writable by user named.
> >
> >User "named" should of course not be able to crate diretories below
> >"/var/run". Especially since many other things on Solaris 10 uses that
> >directory also.
> >
> >
> >If I use:
> >        pid-file "/var/run/named/named/namednew.pid";
> >
> >... everything works fine, since it now can run mkdir without getting "EAC=
> CES". =
> 
> >Instead it gets "EEXIST" and is OK with that.
> >
> >BIND 9.6.0-P1 truss.out:
> >--CUT--
> >25404/65:       stat("/dev/urandom", 0xFFFFFFFF79D0FA00)        =3D 0
> >25404/65:       open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK)       =3D 9
> >25404/65:       fcntl(9, F_GETFL)                               =3D 8320
> >25404/65:       fcntl(9, F_SETFL, FOFFMAX|FNONBLOCK)            =3D 0
> >25404/65:       setgid(21)                                      =3D 0
> >25404/65:       setuid(21)                                      =3D 0
> >25404/65:       access(".", W_OK)                               =3D 0
> >25404/65:       open("/var/log/namednew.log", O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_CREAT, 0=
> 666) =3D 10
> >25404/65:       lseek(10, 0, SEEK_END)                          =3D 498
> >25404/65:       close(10)                                       =3D 0
> >25404/65:       open("/var/log/confignew.log", O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_CREAT, =
> 0666) =3D 10
> >25404/65:       lseek(10, 0, SEEK_END)                          =3D 0
> >25404/65:       close(10)                                       =3D 0
> >25404/65:       mkdir("/var/run/named/named", 0755)             Err#17 EEX=
> IST
> >25404/65:       stat("/var/run/named/named/namednew.pid", 0xFFFFFFFF79D0F9=
> 80) Err#2 ENOENT
> >25404/65:       unlink("/var/run/named/named/namednew.pid")     Err#2 ENOE=
> NT
> >25404/65:       open("/var/run/named/named/namednew.pid", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT=
> |O_EXCL, 0644) =3D 10
> >25404/65:       fcntl(10, F_GETFD, 0x000001A4)                  =3D 0
> >25404/65:       getpid()                                        =3D 25404 =
> [25403]
> >25404/65:       fstat(10, 0xFFFFFFFF79D0E9D0)                   =3D 0
> >25404/65:       fstat(10, 0xFFFFFFFF79D0E8A0)                   =3D 0
> >25404/65:       ioctl(10, TCGETA, 0xFFFFFFFF79D0E90C)           Err#25 ENO=
> TTY
> >25404/65:       write(10, " 2 5 4 0 4\n", 6)                    =3D 6
> >25404/65:       close(10)                                       =3D 0
> >--CUT--
> >
> >
> >Trussing 9.4.3 I see that it does it differently:
> >
> >--CUT--
> >25730/10:       access(".", W_OK)                               =3D 0
> >25730/10:       open("/var/log/namednew.log", O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_CREAT, 0=
> 666) =3D 10
> >25730/10:       lseek(10, 0, SEEK_END)                          =3D 2625
> >25730/10:       close(10)                                       =3D 0
> >25730/10:       open("/var/log/confignew.log", O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_CREAT, =
> 0666) =3D 10
> >25730/10:       lseek(10, 0, SEEK_END)                          =3D 0
> >25730/10:       close(10)                                       =3D 0
> >25730/10:       stat("/var/run/named/namednew.pid", 0xFFFFFFFF7D90F660) Er=
> r#2 ENOENT
> >25730/10:       unlink("/var/run/named/namednew.pid")           Err#2 ENOE=
> NT
> >25730/10:       open("/var/run/named/namednew.pid", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXC=
> L, 0644) =3D 10
> >25730/10:       fcntl(10, F_GETFD, 0x000001A4)                  =3D 0
> >25730/10:       getpid()                                        =3D 25730 =
> [25729]
> >25730/10:       fstat(10, 0xFFFFFFFF7D90E6B0)                   =3D 0
> >25730/10:       fstat(10, 0xFFFFFFFF7D90E580)                   =3D 0
> >25730/10:       ioctl(10, TCGETA, 0xFFFFFFFF7D90E5EC)           Err#25 ENO=
> TTY
> >25730/10:       write(10, " 2 5 7 3 0\n", 6)                    =3D 6
> >--CUT--
> >
> >
> >It seems that someone has "shorted" the code to create and/or check the pi=
> d-file.
> >
> >Maybe that "shortcut" will work on Linux, but it for sure does not work on=
>  Solaris 10.
> >
> >Having to use .../named/named/... in the pid-file option is of course poss=
> ible, but I =
> 
> >guess that it is not the way it is supposed to be...(?)...
> >
> >Help? Ideas?
> >
> >Regards
> >Jan Arild Lindstr=F8m
> >
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