Re: Server ignores contents of SASLInitialResponse

On 05/25/2017 06:36 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Michael Paquier
> <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Actually, I don't think that we are completely done here. Using the
>> patch of upthread to enforce a failure on SASLInitialResponse, I see
>> that connecting without SSL causes the following error:
>> psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "mpaquier"
>> But connecting with SSL returns that:
>> psql: duplicate SASL authentication request
>>
>> I have not looked at that in details yet, but it seems to me that we
>> should not take pg_SASL_init() twice in the scram authentication code
>> path in libpq for a single attempt.
>
> Gotcha. This happens because of sslmode=prefer, on which
> pqDropConnection is used to clean up the connection state. So it seems
> to me that the correct fix is to move the cleanup of sasl_state to
> pqDropConnection() instead of closePGconn(). Once I do so the failures
> are correct, showing to the user two FATAL errors because of the two
> attempts:
> psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "mpaquier"
> FATAL: password authentication failed for user "mpaquier"

Hmm, the SASL state cleanup is done pretty much the same way that
GSS/SSPI cleanup is. Don't we have a similar problem with GSS?

I tested that, and I got an error from glibc, complaining about a
double-free:

> *** Error in `/home/heikki/pgsql.master/bin/psql': double free or corruption (out): 0x000056157d13be00 ***
> ======= Backtrace: =========
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x70bcb)[0x7f6a460b7bcb]
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x76f96)[0x7f6a460bdf96]
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x7778e)[0x7f6a460be78e]
> /home/heikki/pgsql.master/lib/libpq.so.5(+0xa1dc)[0x7f6a46d651dc]
> /home/heikki/pgsql.master/lib/libpq.so.5(+0xa4b3)[0x7f6a46d654b3]
> /home/heikki/pgsql.master/lib/libpq.so.5(+0xacb9)[0x7f6a46d65cb9]
> /home/heikki/pgsql.master/lib/libpq.so.5(PQconnectPoll+0x14e7)[0x7f6a46d6ae81]
> /home/heikki/pgsql.master/lib/libpq.so.5(+0xe895)[0x7f6a46d69895]
> /home/heikki/pgsql.master/lib/libpq.so.5(PQconnectdbParams+0x4f)[0x7f6a46d675b9]
> /home/heikki/pgsql.master/bin/psql(+0x3daa9)[0x56157ccafaa9]
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf1)[0x7f6a460672b1]
> /home/heikki/pgsql.master/bin/psql(+0x1163a)[0x56157cc8363a]

I bisected that; the culprit was commit 61bf96cab0, where I refactored
the libpq authentication code in preparation for SCRAM. The logic around
that free() was always a bit wonky, but the refactoring made it outright
broken. Attached is a patch for that, see commit message for details.
(Review of that would be welcome.)

So, after fixing that, back to the original question; don't we have a
similar "duplicate authentication request" problem with GSS? Yes, turns
out that we do, even on stable branches:

psql "sslmode=prefer dbname=postgres hostaddr=127.0.0.1
krbsrvname=postgres host=localhost user=krbtestuser"
psql: duplicate GSS authentication request

To fix, I suppose we can do what you did for SASL in your patch, and
move the cleanup of conn->gctx from closePGconn to pgDropConnection. And
I presume we need to do the same for the SSPI state too, but I don't
have a Windows set up to test that at the moment.

- Heikki