dns_packet_append_name() added every name it appends to the packet's
compression map, including names written at offsets >= 0x4000 that an
RFC 1035 compression pointer (14 bits) can never reference. Such
entries are not just useless -- when the same name occurs again, the
lookup finds it, the pointer cannot be emitted, the code falls through
to appending the labels again, and the re-insertion into the map then
fails the whole packet build with hashmap_ensure_put() returning
-EEXIST.
This is easily triggered with mDNS: an unsolicited DNS-SD announcement
covering a zone with a few hundred services exceeds 16KiB, and
dns_scope_announce() then fails with "Failed to build reply packet:
File exists".
This lifts the failure only: dns_scope_announce() still builds the whole
zone into one packet and hands it to the socket as a single datagram,
fragmented as the link requires. Splitting announcements across
MTU-sized packets, as RFC 6762 section 17 asks, is done separately.
Only insert a name into the map if its offset is pointer-expressible,
making "mapped implies referenceable" a map invariant. Re-occurrences of
out-of-range names are emitted as labels again -- the only encoding RFC
1035 section 4.1.4 permits in that case -- still compressed from the
first suffix that is mapped in range.
The lookup restates that range as control flow rather than asserting it.
Under -Db_ndebug=true, which CI builds, assert() is
__builtin_unreachable(), so an out-of-range entry would put 0xC000 | n
truncated to 14 bits on the wire -- a pointer to an arbitrary earlier
offset -- where falling through emits the labels instead. This layer is
shared with unicast DNS, DoT and LLMNR.
The pointer's tag bits and its offset bound are now named once, in
dns-def.h next to the other wire-format constants rather than in
dns-packet.h, since the format is RFC 1035's and not this packet
abstraction's -- dhcp-message.c open-codes the same two bits to parse
compressed names out of DHCP options. Compile-time checks pin that the
two partition the 16-bit field and that the tag is its top two bits,
which is what lets the reader take it from the first octet alone.
The offset's other bound becomes control flow along with it: it was an
assert(), which under -Db_ndebug=true is no check at all, for the bound
whose violation puts a pointer to the wrong bytes on the wire. It is
also tightened to the start of the name being appended rather than the
end of the packet, which is the "prior occurrence" RFC 1035 section
4.1.4 allows a pointer to address and what dns_packet_read_name()
enforces on the way in.
Add regression tests, including one through dns_packet_append_rr() --
the path the reported failure came from, where the name append is nested
inside the rdlength backpatch and two further rollbacks -- and one for
the reader's label-type dispatch, which the renamed constants touch.
Let's not leak details from src/shared and src/libsystemd into
src/basic, even though you can't actually do anything useful with
just forward declarations from src/shared.
The sd-forward.h header is put in src/libsystemd/sd-common as we
don't have a directory for shared internal headers for libsystemd
yet.
Let's also rename forward.h to basic-forward.h to keep things
self-explanatory.
DNS_HOSTNAME_MAX is used by sd-resolve, but it was defined in
src/shared/dns-domain.h. The library libsystemd should be independent
of source files under src/shared.
Christian Glombek
Yu Watanabe
Daan De Meyer