[PATCH] debuginfod: PR27917 - protect against federation loops
Frank Ch. Eigler
fche@redhat.com
Wed Aug 18 22:55:41 GMT 2021
Hi -
> This patch aims to reduce the risk by adding an option to debuginfod
> that functions kind of like an IP packet's TTL: a limit on the
> length of XFF: header that debuginfod is willing to process. If
> X-Forwarded-For: exceeds N hops, it will not delegate a local lookup
> miss to upstream debuginfods. [...]
Thank you very much!
> Commit ab38d167c40c99 causes federation loops for non-existent
> resources to result in multiple temporary livelocks, each lasting
> for $DEBUGINFOD_TIMEOUT seconds. [...]
(FWIW, the term "livelock" is not quite right here, try just
"deadlock".)
The patch looks functional, and thank you also for including the
docs and test case. Thorough enough!
> @@ -1862,6 +1869,12 @@ handle_buildid (MHD_Connection* conn,
> // We couldn't find it in the database. Last ditch effort
> // is to defer to other debuginfo servers.
>
> + // if X-Forwarded-For: exceeds N hops,
> + // do not delegate a local lookup miss to upstream debuginfods.
> + if (disable_query_server)
> + throw reportable_exception(MHD_HTTP_NOT_FOUND, "not found,
> --forwared-ttl-limit reached \
> +and will not query the upstream servers");
One part I don't understand is why you added the code to check for XFF
length into handler_cb(), and then passed the disable_query_server
result flag to this function. Was there some reason not to perform
the XFF comma-counting right here?
- FChE
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