The Listener::create method now takes a set of configuration parameters
from which it constructs a listener. This removes the duplicated code and
makes the behavior of listener creation similar to other objects in
MaxScale. It also allows the configuration parameters to be stored in the
listener object itself.
It is an error to register the same task multiple times, but
for a maintenance release it is simpler and less risky to simply
ignore an attempt (that BLR does) to do that.
Allowing a task to be registered anew causes behaviour akin
to a leak.
This makes iterating over packets in buffers faster while still
maintaining the requirements for forward iterators. Not using operator+=
makes it clear that this is not a random access iterator.
If there have been any changes in the bootstrap servers specified
for the Clustrix monitor, then the persistent connection information
is not used.
Otherwise, if the bootstrap server is changed and inaccessible, we
may connect to another cluster than the intended one.
Persisted information about dynamic nodes must be used only if
the bootrap information has not been changed, as otherwise we risk
using information that is not valid.
The functions that searched for listeners compared both sockets and
addresses in the same function. This made its use error prone and caused
false positives in some cases.
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter
how improbable, must be the truth." Arthur Conan Doyle
Since server objects are never destroyed, currently the only
explanation for the crash described in MXS-2446 is that a server
created at runtime could not, immediately after the creation, be
found using its name.
If the nodes change while a multi HTTP GET is in process, the
corresponding delayed called must be cancelled. Otherwise we
eventually would end up attempting to update the state of the
nodes using the wrong result.
Necessary if the firewall should be able to block columns when
'ANSI_QUOTES' as enabled and " instead of backticks are used.
Without this, the following
> set @@sql_mode='ANSI_QUOTES';
> select "ssn" from person;
will not be blocked if the database firewall has been configured
to block the column ssn.
The masking filter will now consider all string arguments to
functions to be fields. This in order to prevent bypassing of
the masking with
> set @@sql_mode='ANSI_QUOTES';
> select concat("ssn") from masking;
This may lead to false positives, but no can do.
Before this change, the masking could be bypassed simply by
> set @@sql_mode='ANSI_QUOTES';
> select concat("ssn") from person;
The reason is that as the query classifier is not aware of whether
'ANSI_QUOTES' is on or not, it will not know that what above appears
to be the string "ssn", actually is the field name `ssn`. Consequently,
the select will not be blocked and the result returned in cleartext.
It's now possible to instruct the query classifier to report all string
arguments of functions as fields, which will prevent the above. However,
it will also mean that there may be false positives.
Added a test that makes sure the transaction replay cap is respected. Also
improved the logging to show how many transaction replay attemps have been
done and to log if a replay is not done due to too many attempts.
In most cases it is reasonable to stop attempting transaction replays
after a certain number of failed attempts. This prevents transactions from
being repeatedly replayed on the same server over and over again if, for
example, it keeps crashing.
Duration values converted to JSON are now again returned as integers. This
keeps the REST API backwards compatible until suffixed durations are no
longer supported at which point all duration values can be represented in
milliseconds.
If a connection attempt is not accepted due to the host being blocked, the
protocol can now return an error message that is sent to the client. Only
mariadb_client implements this as it is the only one who calls the auth
failure methods in the first place.
The RateLimit class stores authentication failure data mapped by the
client IP addresses. The authentication failures are limited
per thread. The limits are still hard-coded and at least the number of
failures should be made configurable.
The simplest, most maintainable and acceptably efficient implementation
for DDoS protection is a thread-local unordered_map. The unwanted
side-effect of "scaling" of the number of allowed authentication failures
is unlikely to be problematic in most use-cases.
As the blocking of a host is only temporary, the behavior differs from the
one in the MariaDB server. This allows the number of failures to be set to
a much lower value negating some of the problems caused by the relatively
simple implementation.
Currently it's too laborious to use duration suffixes when saving
generated configs and also to handle suffixes when changes are made
dynamically using maxctrl.
It will be trivial to do that when the new configuration mechanism
has been taken into use everywhere. That will not happen before
MaxScale 2.5.
So, in MaxScale 2.4 duration suffixes will be accepted in manually
created configuration files, but no warning will be logged if a
suffix is not used.
