ubusd: convert tx_queue to linked list

ubusd maintains a per-client tx_queue containing references to message
buffers that have not been sent yet (due to the socket blocking). This
is a fixed-size, 64-element queue.

When more than 64 elements are queued, subsequent elements are simply
dropped. Thus, a client that is waiting for those messages will block
indefinitely. In particular, this happens when more than +- 250 objects
are registered on the bus and either "ubus list" or "ubus wait_for" is
called. The responses to these requests consist of a message buffer per
object. Since in practice, ubusd will not yield between the sends of
these message buffers, the client has no time to process them and
eventually the output socket blocks. After 64 more objects, the rest is
dropped, including the final message that indicates termination. Thus,
the client waits indefinitely for the termination message.

To solve this, turn the tx_queue into a variable-sized linked list
instead of a fixed-size queue.

To maintain the linked list, an additional structure ubus_msg_buf_list
is created. It is not possible to add the linked list to ubus_msg_buf,
because that is shared between clients.

Note that this infinite tx_queue opens the door to a DoS attack. You can
open a client and a server connection, then send messages from the
client to the server without ever reading anything on the server side.
This will eventually lead to an out-of-memory. However, such a DoS
already existed anyway, it just requires opening multiple server
connections and filling up the fixed-size queue on each one. To protect
against such DoS attacks, we'd need to:
- keep a global maximum queue size that applies to all rx and tx queues
  together;
- stop reading from any connection when the maximum is reached;
- close any connection when it hasn't become writeable after some
  timeout.

Fixes: https://bugs.openwrt.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=1525

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/ubusd.h b/ubusd.h
index 923e43d..f34cba1 100644
--- a/ubusd.h
+++ b/ubusd.h
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 #include "ubusmsg.h"
 #include "ubusd_acl.h"
 
-#define UBUSD_CLIENT_BACKLOG	32
 #define UBUS_OBJ_HASH_BITS	4
 
 extern struct blob_buf b;
@@ -36,6 +35,11 @@ struct ubus_msg_buf {
 	int len;
 };
 
+struct ubus_msg_buf_list {
+	struct list_head list;
+	struct ubus_msg_buf *msg;
+};
+
 struct ubus_client {
 	struct ubus_id id;
 	struct uloop_fd sock;
@@ -48,8 +52,8 @@ struct ubus_client {
 
 	struct list_head objects;
 
-	struct ubus_msg_buf *tx_queue[UBUSD_CLIENT_BACKLOG];
-	unsigned int txq_cur, txq_tail, txq_ofs;
+	struct list_head tx_queue;
+	unsigned int txq_ofs;
 
 	struct ubus_msg_buf *pending_msg;
 	struct ubus_msg_buf *retmsg;
@@ -72,6 +76,7 @@ struct ubus_msg_buf *ubus_msg_new(void *data, int len, bool shared);
 void ubus_msg_send(struct ubus_client *cl, struct ubus_msg_buf *ub);
 ssize_t ubus_msg_writev(int fd, struct ubus_msg_buf *ub, size_t offset);
 void ubus_msg_free(struct ubus_msg_buf *ub);
+void ubus_msg_list_free(struct ubus_msg_buf_list *ubl);
 struct blob_attr **ubus_parse_msg(struct blob_attr *msg, size_t len);
 
 struct ubus_client *ubusd_proto_new_client(int fd, uloop_fd_handler cb);