We used to update the iprop log and HDB in different orders depending on
the kadm5 operation, which then led to various race conditions.
The iprop log now functions as a two-phase commit (with roll forward)
log for HDB changes. The log is auto-truncated, keeping the latest
entries that fit in a configurable maximum number of bytes (defaults to
50MB). See the log-max-size parameter description in krb5.conf(5).
The iprop log format and the protocol remain backwards-compatible with
earlier versions of Heimdal. This is NOT a flag-day; there is NO need
to update all the slaves at once with the master, though it is advisable
in general. Rolling upgrades and downgrades should work.
The sequence of updates is now (with HDB and log open and locked):
a) check that the HDB operation will succeed if attempted,
b) append to iprop log and fsync() it,
c) write to HDB (which should fsync()),
d) mark last log record committed (no fsync in this case).
Every kadm5 write operation recover transactions not yet confirmed as
committed, thus there can be at most one unconfirmed commit on a master
KDC.
Reads via kadm5_get_principal() also attempt to lock the log, and if
successful, recover unconfirmed transactions; readers must have write
access and must win any race to lock the iprop log.
The ipropd-master daemon also attempts to recover unconfirmed
transactions when idle.
The log now starts with a nop record whose payload records the offset of
the logical end of the log: the end of the last confirmed committed
transaction. This is kown as the "uber record". Its purpose is
two-fold: act as the confirmation of committed transactions, and provide
an O(1) method of finding the end of the log (i.e., without having to
traverse the entire log front to back).
Two-phase commit makes all kadm5 writes single-operation atomic
transactions (though some kadm5 operations, such as renames of
principals, and changes to principals' aliases, use multiple low-level
HDB write operations, but still all in one transaction). One can still
hold a lock on the HDB across many operations (e.g., by using the lock
command in a kadmin -l or calling kadm5_lock()) in order to push
multiple transactions in sequence, but this sequence will not be atomic
if the process or host crashes in the middle.
As before, HDB writes which do not go through the kadm5 API are excluded
from all of this, but there should be no such writes.
Lastly, the iprop-log(1) command is enhanced as follows:
- The dump, last-version, truncate, and replay sub-commands now have an
option to not lock the log. This is useful for inspecting a running
system's log file, especially on slave KDCs.
- The dump, last-version, truncate, and replay sub-commands now take an
optional iprop log file positional argument, so that they may be used
to inspect log files other than the running system's
configured/default log file.
Extensive code review and some re-writing for clarity by Viktor Dukhovni.
Before this change Heimdal could read KDBs. Now it can write to
them too.
Heimdal can now also dump HDBs (including KDBs) in MIT format, which
can then be imported with kdb5_util load.
This is intended to help in migrations from MIT to Heimdal by
allowing migrations from Heimdal to MIT so that it is possible
to rollback from Heimdal to MIT should there be any issues. The
idea is to allow a) running Heimdal kdc/kadmind with a KDB, or
b) running Heimdal with an HDB converted from a KDB and then
rollback by dumping the HDB and loading a KDB.
Note that not all TL data types are supported, only two: last
password change and modify-by. This is the minimum necessary.
PKINIT users may need to add support for KRB5_TL_USER_CERTIFICATE,
and for databases with K/M history we may need to add KRB5_TL_MKVNO
support.
Support for additional TL data types can be added in
lib/hdb/hdb-mitdb.c:_hdb_mdb_value2entry() and
lib/hdb/print.c:entry2mit_string_int().
We have some cross-realm principals in an MIT KDB with one kind of
1DES enctype, but the other realm's KDCs issue x-realm TGTs where
the ticket encpart key enctype is a different 1DES enctype. We need
this to work if we use Heimdal with the MIT HDB backend.
An alternative would be to check for similar (or, rather,
compatible) enctypes in the KDC (and elsewhere?). This patch avoids
the need to make such ugly changes elsewhere.
Also: add support for ignoring null enctype / zero-length keys,
which *can* be found in MIT DB entries created in pre-historic
times.
Also: make the mitdb HDB backend more elegant (e.g., use the ASN.1
compiler's generated sequence/array utility functions.
Also: add a utility function needed for kadm5 kvno change
improvements and make kadmin's mod --kvno work correctly and
naturally.
Signed-off-by: Love Hornquist Astrand <lha@h5l.org>
Fixed a double-free bug that was triggered by MIT KDB entries with
multiple kvnos in non-increasing order.
Added lots of comments regarding the MIT KDB entry format.
Signed-off-by: Love Hornquist Astrand <lha@h5l.org>
