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repeated `rndc reload` or `rndc reconfig` on bind 9.11.3 and 9.11.4 causes named memory usage to grow.

Summary

Each run of rndc reload or rndc reconfig, with bind 9.11.3 and 9.11.4, in our configuration, causes named memory usage to grow.

Steps to reproduce

Run rndc reload or rndc reconfig repeatedly, without changing the configuration.

What is the current bug behavior?

Memory usage increases per run of rndc reload.

What is the expected correct behavior?

Memory usage should remain relatively constant.

Relevant configuration files

$ sudo named-checkconf -t /var/named/chroot -px
acl "real_localhost" {
	127.0.0.1/32;
};
acl "lan_hosts" {
	10.0.0.0/8;
	172.16.0.0/12;
	192.168.0.0/16;
};
acl "dns_resolvers" {
	"lan_hosts";
};
controls {
	inet 127.0.0.1 port 953 allow {
		"localhost";
	} keys {
		"rndckey";
	};
};
logging {
	channel "general" {
		file "/var/log/named.log";
		severity notice;
		print-time yes;
		print-severity yes;
		print-category yes;
	};
	channel "verbose" {
		file "/var/log/verbose.log";
		severity debug 1;
		print-time yes;
		print-severity yes;
		print-category yes;
	};
	channel "query" {
		file "/var/log/query.log";
		severity info;
		print-time yes;
		print-severity no;
		print-category no;
	};
	category "default" {
		"general";
		"verbose";
	};
	category "queries" {
		"query";
	};
};
options {
	directory "/var/named";
	dump-file "data/cache_dump.db";
	listen-on {
		"any";
	};
	listen-on-v6 {
		"any";
	};
	memstatistics-file "data/named_mem_stats.txt";
	pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid";
	querylog no;
	statistics-file "data/named_stats.txt";
	use-v4-udp-ports {
		range 57345 61000;
	};
	auth-nxdomain no;
	max-cache-size 15728640;
	no-case-compress {
		"localhost";
		"lan_hosts";
	};
	recursion yes;
	rrset-order {
		order random;
	};
	allow-query {
		"localhost";
	};
	allow-transfer {
		"none";
	};
	forward only;
	forwarders {
		10.86.100.108;
		10.86.110.129;
		10.86.144.123;
		10.86.95.123;
		10.86.96.101;
		10.86.97.126;
	};
	notify no;
};
key "rndckey" {
	algorithm "hmac-md5";
	secret "????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????";
};
zone "twitter.com.smf1.twitter.com" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "twttr.net.smf1.twitter.com" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "twitter.com.atla.twitter.com" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "twttr.net.atla.twitter.com" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "twitter.com.atla.twttr.net" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "twttr.net.atla.twttr.net" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "twitter.com.atlb.twitter.com" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "twttr.net.atlb.twitter.com" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "twitter.com.atlb.twttr.net" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "twttr.net.atlb.twttr.net" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "twitter.com.smfc.twitter.com" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "twttr.net.smfc.twitter.com" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "twitter.com.atlc.twitter.com" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "twttr.net.atlc.twitter.com" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "twitter.com.atlc.twttr.net" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "twttr.net.atlc.twttr.net" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "twitter.com.prod.twitter.com" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "twitter.com.prod.twttr.net" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "twttr.net.prod.twitter.com" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "twttr.net.prod.twttr.net" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "twitter.com.corpdc.twitter.com" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "twitter.com.corpdc.twttr.net" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "twttr.net.corpdc.twitter.com" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "twttr.net.corpdc.twttr.net" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "twtter.com" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "twitter.com.twttr.net" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "twttr.net.twttr.net" {
	type master;
	file "db.empty";
};
zone "." {
	type hint;
	file "root.hint";
};
zone "localhost" {
	type master;
	file "db.localhost";
};
zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
	type master;
	file "db.127.0.0";
};

Relevant logs and/or screenshots

We created core dumps by sending signal 11 to named, from several machines with varying memory usage.

first-pass naïve analysis shows that the strings 'KSATtstA' and 'udpdispatch' loosely correlate with memory usage of the process. These hosts represent bind 9.11.3.

$ for i in smf* ; do echo = $i = ; strings -a $i | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n10 ; done
= smf1-azg-31-sr1 =
  65978 KSATtstA 
  64625 udpdispatch
   6475 tSeD
   2624 pMEMlpmA
   2253 nSND
   1710 !fuB
   1492 twitter
   1257 CmeMxcmA
   1197 L'jh
   1197 disp_sepool
= smf1-dha-15-sr1 =
   8297 KSATtstA
   7168 udpdispatch
   2212 tSeD
   1088 CmeMxcmA
    584 twitter
    564 nSND
    406 kLWR
    375 !fuB
    326 pMEMlpmA`
    279 ONBR
= smf1-duy-24-sr1 =
  24776 KSATtstA 
  23596 udpdispatch
   3224 tSeD
   1251 nSND
   1136 CmeMxcmA
    982 pMEMlpmA
    910 !fuB
    838 twitter
    437 psiD
    437 disp_sepool
= smf1-duz-23-sr1 =
  24777 KSATtstA 7
  23579 udpdispatch
   4300 tSeD
   1278 nSND
   1136 CmeMxcmA
    982 pMEMlpmA
    928 !fuB
    856 twitter
    437 psiD
    437 disp_sepool

We also tested out 9.11.4:

$ ps auxww | grep \[n]amed
named    205598  5.9  0.0 1282692 229648 ?      Ssl  21:30   0:02 /usr/sbin/named -u named -c /etc/named.conf -t /var/named/chroot -c /etc/named.conf
$ sudo rndc reload
server reload successful
$ ps auxww | grep \[n]amed
named    205598  9.8  0.1 1282172 291564 ?      Ssl  21:30   0:04 /usr/sbin/named -u named -c /etc/named.conf -t /var/named/chroot -c /etc/named.conf
$ sudo rndc reload
server reload successful
$ ps auxww | grep \[n]amed
named    205598 14.3  0.1 1282172 346904 ?      Ssl  21:30   0:07 /usr/sbin/named -u named -c /etc/named.conf -t /var/named/chroot -c /etc/named.conf
$ sudo rndc reload
server reload successful
$ ps auxww | grep \[n]amed
named    205598 18.9  0.1 1282172 291992 ?      Ssl  21:30   0:09 /usr/sbin/named -u named -c /etc/named.conf -t /var/named/chroot -c /etc/named.conf

After six more rndc reload commands:

$ ps auxww | grep \[n]amed
named    205598 31.6  0.1 1348028 409972 ?      Ssl  21:30   0:38 /usr/sbin/named -u named -c /etc/named.conf -t /var/named/chroot -c /etc/named.conf

We forced a core and found similar results:

$ strings -a core.205598  | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n10
  65972 KSATtstA
  64699 udpdispatch
   5480 tSeD
   2612 pMEMlpmA`
   1667 nSND
   1522 !fuB
   1251 CmeMxcmA
   1197 psiD
   1197 disp_sepool
   1008 disp_portpool

Possible fixes

These strings correspond to various magic values, suggesting that some path rndc reload and rndc reconfig take is leaking udpdispatch structures tagged with ISCAPI_TASK_MAGIC and ONDESTROY_MAGIC. We have a valgrind report, which was inconclusive.

lib/isc/ondestroy.c:23:#define ONDESTROY_MAGIC          ISC_MAGIC('D', 'e', 'S', 't')
lib/isc/task.c:89:#define TASK_MAGIC                    ISC_MAGIC('T', 'A', 'S', 'K')
lib/isc/include/isc/task.h:166:#define ISCAPI_TASK_MAGIC        ISC_MAGIC('A','t','s','t')