Luca Boccassi [Wed, 21 Aug 2024 19:21:47 +0000 (20:21 +0100)]
conf: do not check, write and delete PID file if set to '/'
If the pid file path is specified as '/', skip handling it,
as it is not only unnecessary but complicates managing the
service. A systemd unit can manage the program without any
need for this functionality, and it makes process tracking
simpler and more robust.
The implementation matches the bindcmdaddress directive.
Luca Boccassi [Wed, 21 Aug 2024 18:54:47 +0000 (19:54 +0100)]
doc: explain how to disable DNSSEC validation with sd-resolved in FAQ
DNSSEC requires the system time to be synced in order to work,
as the signature date and expiration need to be checked by
resolvers. But it is possible that syncing the times requires
doing DNS queries. Add a paragraph to the FAQ explaining how
to break this cycle by asking nss-resolved to always avoid
DNSSEC when chronyd tries to resolve hostnames.
Miroslav Lichvar [Thu, 22 Aug 2024 07:26:59 +0000 (09:26 +0200)]
ntp: fix finalization for async resolver
If an attempt to resolve addresses of an NTP server is made right before
starting the termination sequence, the asynchronous resolver thread
could read the server name when it was already freed.
Leave unresolved sources allocated in NSR_Finalise() if the async
resolver did not finish yet, at least for now. Waiting for the resolving
result or cancelling the thread would complicate the code. The scheduler
is not expected to be running at this point.
conf: don't repeat error message when adding sourcedir source
When a source from a configured sourcedir cannot be added (e.g. it is a
duplicate of another source), log the error message only on the first
attempt adding the source, until the source is removed and added to a
sourcedir again.
This avoids spamming of the system log with error messages if the
reload sources command is called frequently (e.g. from a DHCP renewal
networking script).
Miroslav Lichvar [Mon, 29 Jul 2024 12:33:14 +0000 (14:33 +0200)]
ntp: make sure new configuration IDs are unused
The configuration IDs assigned to individual sources (used when they
don't have a resolved IP address) and pools of sources are 32-bit. The
ID could overflow if some sources were very frequently removed and added
again. Two unrelated sources could end up with the same ID, causing some
operations to unexpectedly impact only one or both sources.
Make sure the ID is currently unused before assigning it to a new source.
On start, if the foreground process waiting for the daemon process to
close the pipe (after finishing the RTC initialization, initstepslew,
etc) is killed, terminate the daemon too assuming that whatever killed
the foreground process it wanted all chronyd processes to stop.
In the daemon, before closing the pipe file descriptor, send an empty
message to check if the pipe isn't already closed on the other end.
Miroslav Lichvar [Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:31:04 +0000 (14:31 +0200)]
ntp: make NTP-over-PTP domain configurable
Add ptpdomain directive to set the domain number of transmitted and
accepted NTP-over-PTP messages. It might need to be changed in networks
using a PTP profile with the same domain number. The default domain
number of 123 follows the current NTP-over-PTP specification.
Miroslav Lichvar [Thu, 20 Jun 2024 07:31:31 +0000 (09:31 +0200)]
ntp: update NTP-over-PTP support
Following the latest version of the draft, accept NTP messages in both
PTPv2 and PTPv2.1 messages, accept sync messages in addition to delay
request messages, and check the minorSdoId field in PTPv2.1 messages.
Transmitted messages are still PTPv2 delay requests.
Don't switch to the organization-specific TLV yet. Wait for the NTP TLV
subtype and Network Correction extension field to be assigned by IANA to
avoid an additional break in compatibility.
ntp: limit offset correction to supported NTP interval
When an NTP source is specified with the offset option, the corrected
offset may get outside of the supported NTP interval (by default -50..86
years around the build date). If the source passed the source selection,
the offset would be rejected only later in the adjustment of the local
clock.
Check the offset validity as part of the NTP test A to make the source
unselectable and make it visible in the measurements log and ntpdata
report.
reference: switch is_leap_close() from time_t to double
Avoid undefined behavior in the timestamp conversion from double to
time_t in REF_IsLeapSecondClose() with NTP sources configured with a
large offset correction.
Miroslav Lichvar [Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:00:58 +0000 (16:00 +0200)]
sources: allow logging one selection failure on start
Allow one message about failed selection (e.g. no selectable sources)
to be logged before first successful selection when a source has
full-size reachability register (8 polls with a received or missed
response).
This should make it more obvious that chronyd has a wrong configuration
or there is a firewall/networking issue.
Miroslav Lichvar [Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:42:16 +0000 (15:42 +0200)]
sources: update source selection with unreachable sources
When updating the reachability register of a source with zero, call the
source selection even if the source is not the currently selected as the
best source. But do that only if all reachability bits are zero, i.e.
there was no synchronized response for last 8 polls.
This will enable the source selection to log a message when only
unreachable sources are updating reachability and it decreases the
number of unnecessary source selections.
Miroslav Lichvar [Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:45:23 +0000 (14:45 +0200)]
sources: reorder unsynchronised source status
In the source selection, check for the unsynchronized leap status after
getting sourcestats data. The unsynchronized source status is supposed
to indicate an unsynchronized source that is providing samples, not a
source which doesn't have any samples.
Also, fix the comment describing the status.
Fixes: 4c29f8888c76 ("sources: handle unsynchronized sources in selection")
Miroslav Lichvar [Mon, 29 Apr 2024 09:21:45 +0000 (11:21 +0200)]
ntp: improve copying of server status
When a server specified with the copy option responds with an
unsynchronized status (e.g. due to selection failure), reset the
source instance to immediately switch the local reference status
instead of waiting for the source to become unreachable after 8 polls.
Miroslav Lichvar [Mon, 15 Apr 2024 14:19:06 +0000 (16:19 +0200)]
ntp: log failed connection to Samba signd socket
Log an error message (in addition to the socket-specific debug message)
when the connection to signd socket fails, but only once before a
successful signd exchange to avoid flooding the system log.
Miroslav Lichvar [Wed, 10 Apr 2024 10:05:57 +0000 (12:05 +0200)]
sys_linux: disable other external timestamping channels
Use new ioctls added in Linux 6.7 to disable receiving events from other
channels when enabling external timestamping on a PHC. This should save
some CPU time when other applications or chronyd instances are using
other channels of the same PHC.
Add two reserved fields initialized to zero to the new REQ_LOCAL3
command to allow adding more options (e.g. delay in activation) without
changing the command number again.
Andy Fiddaman [Mon, 25 Mar 2024 19:05:52 +0000 (19:05 +0000)]
reference: add "local activate" option
This option sets an activating root distance for the local reference. The
local reference will not be used until the root distance drops below the
configured value for the first time. This can be used to prevent the local
reference from being activated on a server which has never been synchronised
with an upstream server. The default value of 0.0 causes no activating
distance to be used, such that the local reference is always eligible for
activation.
leapdb: fix leapsec list processing with 32-bit time_t
A 32-bit time_t value overflows when converted to the Y1900 epoch used
in the leapsec list. Use a 64-bit variable in get_list_leap() to fix the
comparisons on systems using 32-bit time_t.
Fixes: 53823b9f1c07 ("leapdb: support leap-seconds.list as second source")
Add "kod" option to the ratelimit directive to respond with the KoD
RATE code to randomly selected requests exceeding the configured limit.
This complements the client support of KoD RATE. It's disabled by
default.
There can be only one KoD code in one response. If both NTS NAK and RATE
codes are triggered, drop the response. The KoD RATE code can be set in
an NTS-authenticated response.
Add a third return value to CLG_LimitServiceRate() to indicate the
server should send a response requesting the client to reduce its
polling rate. It randomly selects from a fraction (configurable to 1/2,
1/4, 1/8, 1/16, or disabled) of responses which would be dropped
(after selecting responses for the leak option).
Miroslav Lichvar [Thu, 14 Mar 2024 14:37:15 +0000 (15:37 +0100)]
ntp: avoid unnecessary restart of resolving round on refresh
Don't call NSR_ResolveSources() when a resolving round is already
started. This cuts the number of calls of the system resolver made due
to the refresh command to half.
Miroslav Lichvar [Thu, 14 Mar 2024 14:32:28 +0000 (15:32 +0100)]
ntp: don't keep refresh requests in list of unresolved sources
The refresh command adds requests to reresolve addresses of all sources.
If some sources didn't have an IP address resolved yet, the
corresponding requests were not removed after failed resolving. Repeated
refresh commands increased the number of requests and number of calls of
the system resolver, which might not be caching DNS responses.
Remove all refresh requests from the list after resolving attempt to fix
that.
Reported-by: t.barnewski@avm.de Fixes: d7e3ad17ff7a ("ntp: create sources for unresolved addresses")
Miroslav Lichvar [Tue, 12 Mar 2024 13:30:27 +0000 (14:30 +0100)]
conf: don't load sourcedir during initstepslew and RTC init
If the reload sources command was received in the chronyd start-up
sequence with initstepslew and/or RTC init (-s option), the sources
loaded from sourcedirs caused a crash due to failed assertion after
adding sources specified in the config.
Ignore the reload sources command until chronyd enters the normal
operation mode.
Even though mktime() is documented as ignoring the tm_wday field, the
coverity static analyzer complains about passing an uninitialized value.
Set the field to zero to make it happy.
Use leapseclist instead of leapsectz and test also negative leap
seconds. Add a test for leapsectz when the date command indicates
right/UTC is available on the system and mktime() works as expected.
Check TAI offset in the server's log.
leapdb: support leap-seconds.list as second source
The existing implementation of getting leap second information from a
timezone in get_tz_leap() relies on non-portable C library behaviour.
Specifically, mktime is not required to return '60' in the tm_sec field
when a leap second is inserted leading to "Timezone right/UTC failed
leap second check, ignoring" errors on musl based systems.
This patch adds support for getting leap second information from the
leap-seconds.list file included with tzdata and adds a new configuration
directive leapseclist to switch on the feature.
conf: add ipv4 and ipv6 options to server/pool/peer directive
Accept "ipv4" and "ipv6" options in the server/pool/peer directive to
use only IPv4 or IPv6 addresses respectively.
The configuration is different from the "server [-4|-6] hostname" syntax
supported by ntpd to avoid breaking existing scripts which expect the
hostname to always be the first argument of the directives.
Add a new parameter to the NSR_AddSourceByName() function to allow
individual sources to be limited to IPv4 or IPv6 addresses. This doesn't
change the options passed to the resolver. It's just an additional
filter in the processing of resolved addresses following the -4/-6
command-line option of chronyd.
Miroslav Lichvar [Tue, 28 Nov 2023 10:28:03 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
sources: rework logging of selection loss
The commit 5dd288dc0cbd ("sources: reselect earlier when removing
selected source") didn't cover all paths that can lead to a missing log
message when all sources are removed.
Add a flag to track the loss of selection and postpone the log message
in transient states where no message is logged to avoid spamming in
normal operation. Call SRC_SelectSource() after removing the source
to get a log message if there are no (selectable) sources left.
Miroslav Lichvar [Tue, 21 Nov 2023 10:25:10 +0000 (11:25 +0100)]
sources: drop unreachable log message
With forced reselection during source removal selected_source_index
can only be INVALID_SOURCE if there are no sources. The "Can't
synchronise: no sources" message couldn't be logged even before that as
SRC_ReselectSource() resets the index before calling SRC_SelectSource().
Miroslav Lichvar [Tue, 21 Nov 2023 10:10:23 +0000 (11:10 +0100)]
sources: reselect earlier when removing selected source
When a selected source is being removed, reset the instance and rerun
the selection while the source is still marked as selected. This forces
a "Can't synchronise" message to be logged when all sources are removed.
Miroslav Lichvar [Tue, 21 Nov 2023 08:28:40 +0000 (09:28 +0100)]
ntp: allow reusing timestamps of unused samples
When switching from basic mode to interleaved mode following a response
which wasn't accumulated due to failed test A, B, C, or D, allow
timestamps of the failed sample to be reused in interleaved mode, i.e.
replacing the server's less accurate transmit timestamp with a more
accurate timestamp server can turn a failed sample into acceptable one.
Move the presend check into test A to simplify the code.
Miroslav Lichvar [Tue, 21 Nov 2023 06:51:37 +0000 (07:51 +0100)]
ntp: fix presend in interleaved mode
The presend option in interleaved mode uses two presend requests instead
of one to get an interleaved response from servers like chrony which
delay the first interleaved response due to an optimization saving
timestamps only for clients actually using the interleaved mode.
After commit 0ae6f2485b97 ("ntp: don't use first response in interleaved
mode") the first interleaved response following the two presend
responses in basic mode is dropped as the preferred set of timestamps
minimizing error in delay was already used by the second sample in
basic mode. There are only three responses in the burst and no sample is
accumulated.
Increasing the number of presend requests to three to get a fourth
sample would be wasteful. Instead, allow reusing timestamps of the
second presend sample in basic mode, which is never accumulated.
Reported-by: Aaron Thompson Fixes: 0ae6f2485b97 ("ntp: don't use first response in interleaved mode")
Miroslav Lichvar [Mon, 20 Nov 2023 12:34:59 +0000 (13:34 +0100)]
nts: close reusable sockets in helper process
Close all reusable sockets when the NTS-KE server helper is forked. It
is not supposed to have access to any of the server sockets, just the
socket for getting requests from the main process and the syslog socket.
Miroslav Lichvar [Mon, 20 Nov 2023 12:25:27 +0000 (13:25 +0100)]
socket: set close-on-exec on all reusable sockets
Set the CLOEXEC flag on all reusable sockets in the initialization to
avoid leaking them to sendmail (mailonchange directive) in case the
chrony configuration doesn't use all sockets provided by systemd.
Luke Valenta [Thu, 26 Oct 2023 16:48:56 +0000 (12:48 -0400)]
socket: add support for systemd sockets
Before opening new IPv4/IPv6 server sockets, chronyd will check for
matching reusable sockets passed from the service manager (for example,
passed via systemd socket activation:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/sd_listen_fds.html)
and use those instead.
Aside from IPV6_V6ONLY (which cannot be set on already-bound sockets),
the daemon sets the same socket options on reusable sockets as it would
on sockets it opens itself.
Unit tests test the correct parsing of the LISTEN_FDS environment
variable.
Add 011-systemd system test to test socket activation for DGRAM and
STREAM sockets (both IPv4 and IPv6). The tests use the
systemd-socket-activate test tool, which has some limitations requiring
workarounds discussed in inline comments.
ntp: initialize network correction of transmitted packets
Initialize the unused value of network correction parsed from
own transmitted packets to avoid a use-of-uninitialized-value error
in NIO_UnwrapMessage() reported by clang.
Fixes: 6372a9f93f59 ("ntp: save PTP correction from NTP-over-PTP messages")
Miroslav Lichvar [Tue, 26 Sep 2023 10:52:39 +0000 (12:52 +0200)]
ntp: add client support for network correction
If the network correction is known for both the request and response,
and their sum is not larger that the measured peer delay, allowing the
transparent clocks to be running up to 100 ppm faster than the client's
clock, apply the corrections to the NTP offset and peer delay. Don't
correct the root delay to not change the estimated maximum error.
Miroslav Lichvar [Tue, 26 Sep 2023 10:39:25 +0000 (12:39 +0200)]
ntp: add server support for network correction
Provide the network correction (PTP correction + RX duration) of the
request in the new extension field if included in the request and
NTP-over-PTP is enabled.
Miroslav Lichvar [Tue, 26 Sep 2023 10:30:10 +0000 (12:30 +0200)]
ntp: add extension field to provide network correction
To be able to verify PTP corrections, the client will need to know both
the correction of the request received by the server and the correction
of the response. Add a new experimental NTP extension field that the
clients will use to request the correction and servers return the
value.
Miroslav Lichvar [Tue, 26 Sep 2023 10:14:56 +0000 (12:14 +0200)]
ntp: extend local timestamp for PTP correction
Add two new fields to the NTP_Local_Timestamp structure:
- receive duration as the time it takes to receive the ethernet frame,
currently known only with HW timestamping
- network correction as a generalized PTP correction
The PTP correction is provided by transparent clocks in the correction
field of PTP messages to remove the receive, processing and queueing
delays of network switches and routers. Only one-step end-to-end unicast
transparent clocks are useful for NTP-over-PTP. Two-step transparent
clocks use follow-up messages and peer-to-peer transparent clocks don't
handle delay requests.
The RX duration will be included in the network correction to compensate
for asymmetric link speeds of the server and client as the NTP RX
timestamp corresponds to the end of the reception (in order to
compensate for the asymmetry in the normal case when no corrections
are applied).
Miroslav Lichvar [Tue, 12 Sep 2023 10:19:03 +0000 (12:19 +0200)]
ntp: rename exp1 extension field
Rename the exp1 extension field to exp_mono_root (monotonic timestamp +
root delay/dispersion) to better distinguish it from future experimental
extension fields.