This required couple of internal changes to the isc_mem_debugging.
The isc_mem_debugging is now internal to isc_mem unit and there are
three new functions:
1. isc_mem_setdebugging() can change the debugging setting for an
individual memory context. This is need for the memory contexts used
for OpenSSL, libxml and libuv accounting as recording and tracing
memory is broken there.
2. isc_mem_debugon() / isc_mem_debugoff() can be used to change default
memory debugging flags as well as debugging flags for isc_g_mctx.
Additionally, the memory debugging is inconsistent across the code-base.
For now, we are keeping the existing flags, but three new environment
variables have been added 'ISC_MEM_DEBUGRECORD', 'ISC_MEM_DEBUGTRACE'
and 'ISC_MEM_DEBUGUSAGE' to set the global debugging flags at any
program using the memory contexts.
Instead of having individual memory contexts scattered across different
files and called different names, add a single memory context called
isc_g_mctx that replaces named_g_mctx and various other global memory
contexts in various utilities and tests.
Meson is a modern build system that has seen a rise in adoption and some
version of it is available in almost every platform supported.
Compared to automake, meson has the following advantages:
* Meson provides a significant boost to the build and configuration time
by better exploiting parallelism.
* Meson is subjectively considered to be better in readability.
These merits alone justify experimenting with meson as a way of
improving development time and ergonomics. However, there are some
compromises to ensure the transition goes relatively smooth:
* The system tests currently rely on various files within the source
directory. Changing this requirement is a non-trivial task that can't
be currently justified. Currently the last compiled build directory
writes into the source tree which is in turn used by pytest.
* The minimum version supported has been fixed at 0.61. Increasing this
value will require choosing a baseline of distributions that can
package with meson. On the contrary, there will likely be an attempt
to decrease this value to ensure almost universal support for building
BIND 9 with meson.
There were several methods how we used 'argv[0]'. Some programs had a
static value, some programs did use isc_file_progname(), some programs
stripped 'lt-' from the beginning of the name. And some used argv[0]
directly.
Unify the handling and all the variables into isc_commandline_progname
that gets populated by the new isc_commandline_init(argc, argv) call.
Instead of giving the memory context names with an explicit call to
isc_mem_setname(), add the name to isc_mem_create() call to have all the
memory contexts an unconditional name.
Instead of relying on unreliable order of execution of the library
constructors and destructors, move them to individual binaries. The
advantage is that the execution time and order will remain constant and
will not depend on the dynamic load dependency solver.
This requires more work, but that was mitigated by a simple requirement,
any executable using libisc and libdns, must include <isc/lib.h> and
<dns/lib.h> respectively (in this particular order). In turn, these two
headers must not be included from within any library as they contain
inlined functions marked with constructor/destructor attributes.
Since BIND 9 headers are not longer public, there's no reason to keep
the ISC_LANG_BEGINDECL and ISC_LANG_ENDDECL macros to support including
them from C++ projects.
Instead of calling dst_lib_init() and dst_lib_destroy() explicitly by
all the programs, create a separate memory context for the DST subsystem
and use the library constructor and destructor to initialize the DST
internals.
The OpenSSL 1.x Engines support has been deprecated in the OpenSSL 3.x
and is going to be removed. Remove the OpenSSL Engine support in favor
of OpenSSL Providers.
With _exit() instead of exit() in place, we don't need
isc__tls_setfatalmode() mechanism as the atexit() calls will not be
executed including OpenSSL atexit hooks.
Since the fatal() isn't a correct but rather abrupt termination of the
program, we want to skip the various atexit() calls because not all
memory might be freed during fatal() call, etc. Using _exit() instead
of exit() has this effect - the program will end, but no destructors or
atexit routines will be called.
When fatal is called we may be holding memory allocated by OpenSSL.
This may result in the reference count for the FIPS provider not
going to zero and the shared library not being unloaded during
OPENSSL_cleanup. When the shared library is ultimately unloaded,
when all remaining dynamically loaded libraries are freed, we have
already destroyed the memory context we where using to track memory
leaks / late frees resulting in INSIST being called.
Disable triggering the INSIST when fatal has being called.
C11 has builtin support for _Noreturn function specifier with
convenience noreturn macro defined in <stdnoreturn.h> header.
Replace ISC_NORETURN macro by C11 noreturn with fallback to
__attribute__((noreturn)) if the C11 support is not complete.
Previously, the unreachable code paths would have to be tagged with:
INSIST(0);
ISC_UNREACHABLE();
There was also older parts of the code that used comment annotation:
/* NOTREACHED */
Unify the handling of unreachable code paths to just use:
UNREACHABLE();
The UNREACHABLE() macro now asserts when reached and also uses
__builtin_unreachable(); when such builtin is available in the compiler.
Replace :manpage: with :iscman: to generate internal hyperlinks. That
way reader can use links even when offline, and jumps to man pages
for the same version.
Formerly HTML version of man pages did not have links in See Also
section because :manpage: role in Sphinx can generate only external
hyperlinks - and we do not have that enabled.
Enabling the Sphinx :manpage: linking could reliably create hyperlinks
only to external URLs, but that would take users to another version
of docs.
Generated by:
find bin -name '*.rst' | xargs sed -i -e 's/:manpage:`\([^(]\+\)(\([0-9]\))`/:iscman:`\1(\2) <\1>`/g'
+ hand-edit to revert change for mmencode reference which is
not provided in our source tree.
Use the new role :iscman: to replace all occurences or ``binary``
with :iscman:`binary`, creating a hyperlink to the manual page.
Generated using:
find bin -name *.rst | xargs fgrep --files-with-matches '.. iscman' | xargs -I{} -n1 basename {} .rst > /tmp/progs
for PROG in $(cat /tmp/progs); do find -name '*.rst' | xargs sed -i -e "s/\`\`$PROG\`\`/:iscman:\`$PROG\`/g"; done
Additional hand-edits were done mainly around filter-aaaa and
filter-a which are program names and and option names at the
same time. Couple more edits was neede to fix .rst syntax broken by
automatic replacement.
Sphinx has it's own :program: syntax for refering to program names.
Use it for self-references in manual pages. These self-references are
not clickable and not as eye-cathing as links, which is a good thing.
There is no point in attracting attention to ``dig`` several times on a
single page dedicated to dig itself.
Substituted automatically using:
find bin -name *.rst | xargs fgrep --files-with-matches '.. program' | xargs -n1 bash /tmp/repl.sh
With /tmp/repl.sh being:
BASE=$(basename "$1" .rst)
sed -i -e "s/\`\`$BASE\`\`/:program:\`$BASE\`/g" "$1"
The new directive and role "iscman" allow to tag & reference man pages in
our source tree. Essentially it is just namespacing for ISC man pages,
but it comes with couple benefits.
Differences from .. _man_program label we formerly used:
- Does not expand :ref:`man_program` into full text of the page header.
- Generates index entry with category "manual page".
- Rendering style is closer to ubiquitous to the one produced
by ``named`` syntax.
Differences from Sphinx built-in :manpage: role:
- Supports all builders with support for cross-references.
- Generates internal links (unlike :manpage: which generates external
URLs).
- Checks that target exists withing our source tree.
Side-effect of hyperlinking is that typos in program and option names
are now detected by Sphinx.
Candidate -options were detected using:
find -name *.rst | xargs grep '``-[^`]'
and then modified from ``-o`` to :option:`-o` using regex
s/``\(-[^`]\+\)``/:option:`\1`/
+ manual modifications where necessary.
Non-hyphenated options were detected by looking at context around
program names:
find bin -name *.rst | xargs -I{} -n1 basename {} .rst | sort -u
and grepping for program name with trailing whitespace.
Stand-alone program names like ``named`` are not hyperlinked in this
commit.
The markup allows referencing individual options, and also makes them
more legible (no more thin red text on gray background).
Most of the work was done using regexes:
s/^``-\(.*\)``$/.. option:: -\1\r/
s/^``+\(.*\)``$/.. option:: +\1\r/
on bin/**/*.rst files along with visual inspection and hand-edits,
mostly for positional arguments.
Regex for rndc.rst:
s/^``\(.*\)``/.. option:: \1\r/
+ hand edits to remove extra asterisk and whitespace here and there.
Both utilities were included as one man page, but this caused a problem:
Sphinx directive .. include was used twice on the same file, which
prevented us from using labels (or anything with unique identifier) in
the man pages. This effectivelly prevented linking to them.
Splitting man pages allows us to solve the linking problems and also
clearly make text easier to follow because it does not mention two tools
at the same time.
This change causes duplication of text, but given the frequecy of changes
to these tools I think it is acceptable.
Related: #2799
Replace the hard-coded paths for various BIND 9 files (configuration,
pid, etc.) in the man pages and ARM with compile-time values using the
sphinx-build replace system.
This is more complicated, because the restructured text specification
doesn't allow |substitions| inside ``code-blocks``, so for each specific
file we had to create own substition which is sub-optimal, but it is
only way how to do this without adding Sphinx extension.
This commit converts the license handling to adhere to the REUSE
specification. It specifically:
1. Adds used licnses to LICENSES/ directory
2. Add "isc" template for adding the copyright boilerplate
3. Changes all source files to include copyright and SPDX license
header, this includes all the C sources, documentation, zone files,
configuration files. There are notes in the doc/dev/copyrights file
on how to add correct headers to the new files.
4. Handle the rest that can't be modified via .reuse/dep5 file. The
binary (or otherwise unmodifiable) files could have license places
next to them in <foo>.license file, but this would lead to cluttered
repository and most of the files handled in the .reuse/dep5 file are
system test files.
Unify the header guard style and replace the inconsistent include guards
with #pragma once.
The #pragma once is widely and very well supported in all compilers that
BIND 9 supports, and #pragma once was already in use in several new or
refactored headers.
Using simpler method will also allow us to automate header guard checks
as this is simpler to programatically check.
For reference, here are the reasons for the change taken from
Wikipedia[1]:
> In the C and C++ programming languages, #pragma once is a non-standard
> but widely supported preprocessor directive designed to cause the
> current source file to be included only once in a single compilation.
>
> Thus, #pragma once serves the same purpose as include guards, but with
> several advantages, including: less code, avoidance of name clashes,
> and sometimes improvement in compilation speed. On the other hand,
> #pragma once is not necessarily available in all compilers and its
> implementation is tricky and might not always be reliable.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragma_once
Remove the dynamic registration of result codes. Convert isc_result_t
from unsigned + #defines into 32-bit enum type in grand unified
<isc/result.h> header. Keep the existing values of the result codes
even at the expense of the description and identifier tables being
unnecessary large.
Additionally, add couple of:
switch (result) {
[...]
default:
break;
}
statements where compiler now complains about missing enum values in the
switch statement.
The native PKCS#11 support has been removed in favour of better
maintained, more performance and easier to use OpenSSL PKCS#11 engine
from the OpenSC project.
The isc/platform.h header was left empty which things either already
moved to config.h or to appropriate headers. This is just the final
cleanup commit.
The Makefile.tests was modifying global AM_CFLAGS and LDADD and could
accidentally pull /usr/include to be listed before the internal
libraries, which is known to cause problems if the headers from the
previous version of BIND 9 has been installed on the build machine.
The Windows support has been completely removed from the source tree
and BIND 9 now no longer supports native compilation on Windows.
We might consider reviewing mingw-w64 port if contributed by external
party, but no development efforts will be put into making BIND 9 compile
and run on Windows again.
Both doc/man/ddns-confgen.rst and doc/man/tsig-keygen.rst include
bin/confgen/tsig-keygen.rst, which defines a "man_tsig-keygen" label.
This triggers the following warning when running sphinx-build with the
-W command line switch in the doc/man/ directory:
../../bin/confgen/tsig-keygen.rst:27: WARNING: duplicate label man_tsig-keygen, other instance in /tmp/bind9/doc/man/ddns-confgen.rst
Move the offending label from bin/confgen/tsig-keygen.rst to the proper
spot in doc/arm/manpages.rst to avoid effectively defining it twice in
different source documents while still allowing the relevant man page to
be referenced in the ARM. Also rename that label so that it more
closely matches the content it points to. As the label no longer
immediately precedes a section title in its new location, use
:ref:`Title <label>` syntax for the only reference to the
tsig-keygen/ddns-confgen man page in the ARM.
This commit extends the perl Configure script to also check for libssl
in addition to libcrypto and change the vcxproj source files to link
with both libcrypto and libssl.
Move BIND binaries which are neither daemons nor administrative programs
to $bindir. This results in only the following binaries being left in
$sbindir:
- ddns-confgen
- named
- rndc
- rndc-confgen
- tsig-confgen
The ARM and the manpages have been converted into Sphinx documentation
format.
Sphinx uses reStructuredText as its markup language, and many of its
strengths come from the power and straightforwardness of
reStructuredText and its parsing and translating suite, the Docutils.
