[tor-commits] [tor/release-0.4.0] Even more diagnostic messages for bug 28223.

asn at torproject.org asn at torproject.org
Thu Apr 18 10:23:55 UTC 2019


commit 99b87d7ca48c5ed80aec5f24902843f72975bfea
Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm at torproject.org>
Date:   Wed Apr 3 13:53:06 2019 -0400

    Even more diagnostic messages for bug 28223.
    
    Try to figure out _where exactly_ we are first encountering NULs in
    microdescriptors, and what we are doing when that happens.
---
 changes/diagnostic_28223_redux         |  4 ++++
 src/feature/dirparse/microdesc_parse.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 src/feature/nodelist/microdesc.c       | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/changes/diagnostic_28223_redux b/changes/diagnostic_28223_redux
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0d7499832
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/diagnostic_28223_redux
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+  o Minor features (diagnostic):
+    - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve
+      the issue of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache.
+      Related to ticket 28223.
diff --git a/src/feature/dirparse/microdesc_parse.c b/src/feature/dirparse/microdesc_parse.c
index 5a75af399..1e26901ce 100644
--- a/src/feature/dirparse/microdesc_parse.c
+++ b/src/feature/dirparse/microdesc_parse.c
@@ -159,7 +159,22 @@ microdescs_parse_from_string(const char *s, const char *eos,
 
     if (tokenize_string(area, s, start_of_next_microdesc, tokens,
                         microdesc_token_table, flags)) {
-      log_warn(LD_DIR, "Unparseable microdescriptor");
+      const char *location;
+      switch (where) {
+        case SAVED_NOWHERE:
+          location = "download or generated string";
+          break;
+        case SAVED_IN_CACHE:
+          location = "cache";
+          break;
+        case SAVED_IN_JOURNAL:
+          location = "journal";
+          break;
+        default:
+          location = "unknown location";
+          break;
+      }
+      log_warn(LD_DIR, "Unparseable microdescriptor found in %s", location);
       goto next;
     }
 
diff --git a/src/feature/nodelist/microdesc.c b/src/feature/nodelist/microdesc.c
index dafaabb5e..af4f608d2 100644
--- a/src/feature/nodelist/microdesc.c
+++ b/src/feature/nodelist/microdesc.c
@@ -221,6 +221,13 @@ dump_microdescriptor(int fd, microdesc_t *md, size_t *annotation_len_out)
   }
 
   md->off = tor_fd_getpos(fd);
+  const char *nulpos = memchr(md->body, 0, md->bodylen);
+  if (BUG(nulpos)) {
+    log_warn(LD_BUG, "About to dump a NUL into a microdescriptor file. "
+             "offset %"PRId64", bodylen %zu, nul position %zu",
+             (int64_t)md->off, md->bodylen,
+             (size_t)(nulpos - md->body));
+  }
   written = write_all_to_fd(fd, md->body, md->bodylen);
   if (written != (ssize_t)md->bodylen) {
     written = written < 0 ? 0 : written;
@@ -480,6 +487,17 @@ microdesc_cache_clear(microdesc_cache_t *cache)
   cache->bytes_dropped = 0;
 }
 
+static void
+warn_if_nul_found(const char *inp, size_t len, const char *description)
+{
+  const char *nul_found = memchr(inp, 0, len);
+  if (BUG(nul_found)) {
+    log_warn(LD_BUG, "Found unexpected NUL while reading %s, at "
+             "position %zu/%zu.",
+             description, (nul_found - inp), len);
+  }
+}
+
 /** Reload the contents of <b>cache</b> from disk.  If it is empty, load it
  * for the first time.  Return 0 on success, -1 on failure. */
 int
@@ -497,6 +515,7 @@ microdesc_cache_reload(microdesc_cache_t *cache)
 
   mm = cache->cache_content = tor_mmap_file(cache->cache_fname);
   if (mm) {
+    warn_if_nul_found(mm->data, mm->size, "microdesc cache");
     added = microdescs_add_to_cache(cache, mm->data, mm->data+mm->size,
                                     SAVED_IN_CACHE, 0, -1, NULL);
     if (added) {
@@ -509,6 +528,8 @@ microdesc_cache_reload(microdesc_cache_t *cache)
                                      RFTS_IGNORE_MISSING, &st);
   if (journal_content) {
     cache->journal_len = (size_t) st.st_size;
+    warn_if_nul_found(journal_content, cache->journal_len,
+                      "microdesc journal");
     added = microdescs_add_to_cache(cache, journal_content,
                                     journal_content+st.st_size,
                                     SAVED_IN_JOURNAL, 0, -1, NULL);





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