OpenSSH on NCR MPRAS

[Darren Tucker]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 01:21:19PM +0200, Rogan Dawes wrote:
> To update any of the IP or TCP configuration options, system 
> administrators should use the program "tcpconfig". This prompts the 
> admin for a bunch of options, and then, once they have been confirmed, 
> it resets the ENTIRE IP stack, and applies the new settings. Clearly, 
> this is not something that should be done remotely!
> 
> However, the net result of this is that OpenSSH generates thousands of 
> error messages in the "accept" loop, filling up the (prehistoric) syslog 
> facility that has no concept of "previous message repeated 122342234 times"!
> 
> This continues even after the IP stack has completed reloading.
> 
> Question:
> 
> Would it be unreasonable to add some kind of loop counter that tracks 
> the number of consecutive accept errors, and if it reaches a certain 
> threshold, restarts the daemon from a suitable point?

It would not be hard, but it seems like an awful hack.  How do the
native utilities behave under those circumstances?

The following patch ought to do it (against 4.2p1).  You will need
to either rebuild configure with autoconf or add "-DBROKEN_ACCEPT"
to your CFLAGS.

Index: configure.ac
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/src/security/openssh/cvs/openssh_cvs/configure.ac,v
retrieving revision 1.292
diff -u -p -r1.292 configure.ac
--- configure.ac	31 Aug 2005 16:59:49 -0000	1.292
+++ configure.ac	16 Nov 2005 12:44:59 -0000
@@ -418,6 +418,7 @@ mips-sony-bsd|mips-sony-newsos4)
 	AC_DEFINE(SETEUID_BREAKS_SETUID)
 	AC_DEFINE(BROKEN_SETREUID)
 	AC_DEFINE(BROKEN_SETREGID)
+	AC_DEFINE(BROKEN_ACCEPT, 1, [broken accept])
 	;;
 *-sni-sysv*)
 	# /usr/ucblib MUST NOT be searched on ReliantUNIX
Index: sshd.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/src/security/openssh/cvs/openssh_cvs/sshd.c,v
retrieving revision 1.313
diff -u -p -r1.313 sshd.c
--- sshd.c	26 Jul 2005 11:54:56 -0000	1.313
+++ sshd.c	16 Nov 2005 12:44:25 -0000
@@ -1434,6 +1434,14 @@ main(int ac, char **av)
 						error("accept: %.100s", strerror(errno));
 					continue;
 				}
+#ifdef BROKEN_ACCEPT
+				if (errno == ENXIO) {
+					static int enxio_count = 0;
+
+					if (enxio_count++ > 10000)
+						received_sighup = 1;
+				}
+#endif
 				if (unset_nonblock(newsock) == -1) {
 					close(newsock);
 					continue;

-- 
Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au)
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