By iterating over the servers and sending the master's charset we are
guaranteed a "known good" charset. This also solves the problem where a
deactivated server reference would be used as the charset and server
version source.
If the authentication process fails due to an inability to start a
session, it should not be counted towards the number of failed
authentication attempts.
All GWBUF macros that address a single link in a chain are now
simple wrappers for equivalent gwbuf_link-functions.
Next step is to drop the macros and replace their use with calls
to the functions.
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 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.
If the DCB was closed before the handshake for the LocalCliet connection
was received, the gw_decode_mysql_server_handshake would use the closed
DCB to log the connection ID. Clearing out the pointer prevents it.
Added core functionality for UNIX domain sockets in servers. Currently the
address parameter accepts them both but a separate `socket` parameter is
needed.
The largest part of the code deals with the start of a response. Moving
this into a subfunction makes the function clearer as the switch statement
inside a switch statement is removed.
By processing the packets one at a time, the reply state is updated
correctly regardless of how many packets are received. This removes the
need for the clunky code that used modutil_count_signal_packets to detect
the end of the result set.
Given the assumption that queries are rarely 16MB long and that
realistically the only time that happens is during a large dump of data,
we can limit the size of a single read to at most one MariaDB/MySQL packet
at a time. This change allows the network throttling to engage a lot
sooner and reduces the maximum overshoot of throtting to 16MB.
By logging the connection ID for each created connection, failures can be
traced back from the backend server all the way up to the client
application.
Some SQL clients may default to a different authentication plugin than
"mysql_native_password". Since this is the only one supported by MySQL-
authenticator, the client is instructed to swap its plugin.
If a result consists of only OK packets, they would be processed
recursively which most of the time leads to a stack overflow. This can be
prevented by consuming all OK packets in the result in one go.
