Miroslav Lichvar [Thu, 14 Jan 2021 13:12:54 +0000 (14:12 +0100)]
ntp: allow replacement of sources specified by IP address
For sources specified by an IP address, keep the original address as the
source's name and pass it to the NCR instance. Allow the sources to go
through the replacement process if their address has changed.
This will be useful with NTS-KE negotiation.
The IP-based source names are now provided via cmdmon. This means
chronyc -n and -N can show two different addresses for a source.
Miroslav Lichvar [Wed, 13 Jan 2021 15:25:08 +0000 (16:25 +0100)]
test: make 120-selectoptions more reliable
Remove packet interval checks with long delays as the tests are much
more likely to end when the client is waiting for a response. Increase
the base delay to make selection with two sources more reliable.
Reported-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
Miroslav Lichvar [Wed, 13 Jan 2021 12:36:13 +0000 (13:36 +0100)]
socket: check length of received control messages
Make sure each processed control messages has the expected length.
Beside improved safety, this should prevent potential issues with broken
timestamps on systems that support both 64-bit and 32-bit time_t.
Miroslav Lichvar [Wed, 13 Jan 2021 11:32:38 +0000 (12:32 +0100)]
sched: improve infinite loop detection
The "infinite loop in scheduling" fatal error was observed on a system
running out of memory. Presumably, the execution of the process slowed
down due to memory thrashing so much that the dispatching loop wasn't
able to break with a single server polled at a 16-second interval.
To allow recovery in such a case, require for the error more than
20 handled timeouts and a rate higher than 100 per second.
Fortunately, the Linux kernel can be built with software emulation of
these hardware requests, by enabling the following config variable:
CONFIG_RTC_INTF_DEV_UIE_EMUL
Provides an emulation for RTC_UIE if the underlying rtc chip
driver does not expose RTC_UIE ioctls. Those requests generate
once-per-second update interrupts, used for synchronization.
The emulation code will read the time from the hardware
clock several times per second, please enable this option
only if you know that you really need it.
This commit records these facts for the benefit of the user.
If ntsdumpdir is specified and the server NTS keys are not reloaded from
the file, save the generated keys on start instead of waiting for the
first rotation or exit. This allows the keys to be shared with another
server without having to use the dump command.
In the initial resolving of pool sources try to assign each address only
once. If it fails, it means the address is already used (DNS provided
the same address) or the address is not connectable. The same result can
be expected for other unresolved sources of the pool as they don't have
a real address yet.
The NTS-KE helper doesn't need to bind sockets or adjust the clock.
Don't start the privops helper, or keep the capabilities, when dropping
root privileges in its context.
Update the monotonic time before the timestamps are corrected for
unexpected jumps, e.g. due to the computer being suspended and resumed,
and switch to the raw timestamps. This should allow the NTS refresh
interval to better follow real time, but it will not be corrected for
a frequency offset if the clock is not synchronized (e.g. with -x).
Even if a received message will not be returned to the caller (e.g.
because it is truncated), process its control messages to avoid leaking
received descriptors.
Fixes: f231efb811ee ("socket: add support for sending and receiving descriptors")
Miroslav Lichvar [Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:49:27 +0000 (14:49 +0200)]
nts: update client state earlier
Generate a new uniq ID on each client poll to invalidate responses to
the previous request, even if a new request cannot be generated (e.g.
due to missing cookies). Reset the NAK indicator earlier in the request
sequence. Also, drop the cookie even if it's not included in the request
to prevent the client from getting stuck with a cookie that has an
invalid length. Rely on the exponentially increasing interval to avoid
frequent NTS-KE sessions due to a client bug.
Miroslav Lichvar [Wed, 23 Sep 2020 12:59:22 +0000 (14:59 +0200)]
ntp: improve NTS check in NAU_DestroyInstance()
Check the mode instead of the nts pointer to make it clear the pointer
is not expected to be NULL in an NTS instance (unless the NTS support is
stubbed).
Miroslav Lichvar [Tue, 15 Sep 2020 10:11:08 +0000 (12:11 +0200)]
main: add option to disable check for root
The -U option can be used to start chronyd under a non-root user if it
is provided with all capabilities and access to files, directories, and
devices, needed to operate correctly in the specified configuration. It
is not recommended in cases where the configuration is unknown.
Miroslav Lichvar [Thu, 10 Sep 2020 08:22:27 +0000 (10:22 +0200)]
ntp: drop support for long NTPv4 MACs
Don't accept NTPv4 packets which have a MAC longer than 24 octets to
strictly follow RFC 7822, which specifies the maximum length of a MAC
and the minimum length of the last extension field to avoid an ambiguity
in parsing of the packet.
This removes an ugly hack that was needed to accept packets that
contained one or more extension fields without a MAC, before RFC 7822
was written and NTP implementations started using truncated MACs.
The long MACs were used by chrony in versions 2.x when configured to
authenticate a server or peer with a key using a 256-bit or longer hash
(e.g. SHA256). For compatibility with chrony >= 4.0, these clients/peers
will need to have "version 3" added to the server/peer line in
chrony.conf.
sources: don't report untrusted sources as selectable
Show untrusted sources with the '?' symbol instead of '-' to make them
consistent with not selectable and selectable sources in the selectdata
description.
Log an error message when SCK_OpenTcpSocket() fails in the NTS-KE
client, e.g. when connect() fails due to the port not being allowed in
the SELinux policy.
Before sending a cmdmon response, make sure it is not longer than the
request to avoid amplification in case the response/padding length is
incorrectly specified for a request.
Make the precision of the system clock configurable. This can be useful
on servers using hardware timestamping to reduce the amount of noise
added to the NTP timestamps and improve stability of NTP measurements.
Miroslav Lichvar [Mon, 31 Aug 2020 13:13:39 +0000 (15:13 +0200)]
sys_linux: allow lstat and readlink in seccomp filter
These syscalls seem to be needed when gnutls is loading system trusted
certificates due to p11-kit >= 0.23.21 getting the program name from
/proc/self/exe.
sys_timex: add workaround for broken ntp_adjtime() on macOS
On macOS 11.0 (Big Sur) beta, ntp_adjtime() incorrectly returns
timex.freq as an unsigned number. This patch is a workaround for the bug
and should be removed when Apple fix the problem (assuming they will).
Miroslav Lichvar [Tue, 25 Aug 2020 07:39:59 +0000 (09:39 +0200)]
util: don't open symlink when appending to file
When opening a file for appending (i.e. a log file), use the O_NOFOLLOW
flag to get an error if the path is a symlink. Opening log files through
symlinks is no longer supported.
This is a protection against symlink attacks if chronyd is misconfigured
to write a log in a world-writable directory (e.g. /tmp). That is not
meant to become a recommended practice. Log messages will be lost, or
chronyd won't start, if a symlink exists at the location of the log
file.
Miroslav Lichvar [Wed, 19 Aug 2020 11:31:48 +0000 (13:31 +0200)]
nts: explicitly disable session tickets
Session tickets should never be enabled with the currect code on both
clients and servers. Set the GNUTLS_NO_TICKETS flag when opening a TLS
session in case this understanding is wrong, or it changes in future, to
reduce the TLS attack surface.