[SSSD-users] timeout and offline mode behaviour

Jakub Hrozek jhrozek at redhat.com
Thu May 29 11:40:48 UTC 2014


On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:05:58AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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> On 04/17/2014 04:13 AM, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:47:10PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2014-04-16 at 19:49 -0400, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> >> 
> >>> I had some interesting experience during Red Hat summit. The
> >>> network was significantly overloaded. The VPN was slow and
> >>> probably bleeding packets on the way like crazy. Any access to
> >>> internal web page took a while and was happening in multiple
> >>> steps. When screen was locking it was taking about 30 sec (I
> >>> have not measured but that was a feeling) to log in. I am not
> >>> sure we can do much about it but the flaky network is probably
> >>>  going to lead to some timeouts and bad user experience.
> >> 
> >> I think this may be a recent regression. We are never supposed to
> >> wait more than a handful of seconds, but I am noticing that with
> >> latest RHEL6 updates my RHEL desktop also sometimes gets stuck a
> >> while on authentication (VPN). I have not experienced this in F20
> >> (but my domain controller is local).
> > 
> > Simo, if you can reproduce the error locally, would you mind
> > enabling debug logs or trying out the 6.6 preview packages?
> > 
> > I only have headless VMs with RHEL6 and I'm not sure I could
> > reproduce the bug there. But it sounds like something we should
> > fix, so any debug information would be welcome, at least to know
> > where to start with local debugging.
> > 
> > btw when I tried to reproduce the bug Thomas was seeing, I saw
> > some blocking DNS calls in openldap's initialization path, but that
> > was on F-20.
> 
> OpenLDAP isn't supposed to be calling DNS at all. That's the entire
> reason we open the port ourselves now and then pass the FD to it. If
> it suddenly started running DNS, that's probably a regression in the
> openldap libraries.

I had a bit of time to dig into the issue today, here is a snippet of
the backtrace I'm seeing, after I started an IPA client with a faulty DNS
entry in /etc/resolv.conf

#8  0x00007fda39c9e163 in __gethostbyname_r (
    name=name at entry=0x7fff2548d140 "client.example.com", 
    resbuf=resbuf at entry=0x7fff2548d120, buffer=0x1f33590 "\177", buflen=buflen at entry=992, 
    result=result at entry=0x7fff2548d118, h_errnop=h_errnop at entry=0x7fff2548d10c)
    at ../nss/getXXbyYY_r.c:266
#9  0x00007fda3bb1b3de in ldap_pvt_gethostbyname_a (
    name=name at entry=0x7fff2548d140 "client.example.com", 
    resbuf=resbuf at entry=0x7fff2548d120, buf=buf at entry=0x7fff2548d110, 
    result=result at entry=0x7fff2548d118, herrno_ptr=herrno_ptr at entry=0x7fff2548d10c)
    at util-int.c:350
#10 0x00007fda3bb1b5d0 in ldap_pvt_get_fqdn (name=0x7fff2548d140 "client.example.com", 
    name at entry=0x0) at util-int.c:748
#11 0x00007fda3bb19b47 in ldap_int_initialize (
    gopts=gopts at entry=0x7fda3bd40000 <ldap_int_global_options>, dbglvl=dbglvl at entry=0x0)
    at init.c:645
#12 0x00007fda3bb1a627 in ldap_set_option (ld=0x0, option=24582, invalue=0x7fff2548d2b0)
    at options.c:446
#13 0x00007fda30951cf6 in setup_tls_config (basic_opts=0x1f30450)
    at src/providers/ldap/sdap.c:533
#14 0x00007fda308214b3 in ldap_id_init_internal (bectx=0x1f12b40, ops=0x1f12cb0, 
    pvt_data=0x7fff2548d5e8) at src/providers/ldap/ldap_init.c:146
#15 0x00007fda30821ba0 in sssm_ldap_id_init (bectx=0x1f12b40, ops=0x1f12cb0, 
    pvt_data=0x1f12cb8) at src/providers/ldap/ldap_init.c:199
#16 0x000000000041b227 in load_backend_module (ctx=0x1f12b40, bet_type=BET_ID, 
    bet_info=0x1f12ca8, default_mod_name=0x0) at src/providers/data_provider_be.c:2346
#17 0x000000000041ce4c in be_process_init (mem_ctx=0x1f0ba80, 
    be_domain=0x1f093f0 "localipaldap", ev=0x1f0a630, cdb=0x1f0bb90)
    at src/providers/data_provider_be.c:2520
#18 0x000000000041fde6 in main (argc=3, argv=0x7fff2548e008)
    at src/providers/data_provider_be.c:2743


Do you agree this is an openldap bug? I don't like that ldap_set_option
triggers a blocking DNS resolution call..


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