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CP-43755: Pam: avoid sleep(1) call when multithreaded
This enables PAM to be used in multithreaded mode (currently XAPI has a global lock around auth). Using an off-cpu flamegraph I identified that concurrent PAM calls are slow due to a call to `sleep(1)`. `pam_authenticate` calls `crypt_r` which calls `NSSLOW_Init` which on first use will try to initialize the just `dlopen`-ed library. If it encounters a race condition it does a `sleep(1)`. This race condition can be quite reliably reproduced when performing a lot of PAM authentications from multiple threads in parallel. GDB can also be used to confirm this by putting a breakpoint on `sleep`: ``` #0 __sleep (seconds=seconds@entry=1) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sleep.c:42 #1 0x00007ffff1548e22 in freebl_RunLoaderOnce () at lowhash_vector.c:122 #2 0x00007ffff1548f31 in freebl_InitVector () at lowhash_vector.c:131 #3 NSSLOW_Init () at lowhash_vector.c:148 #4 0x00007ffff1b8f09a in __sha512_crypt_r (key=key@entry=0x7fffd8005a60 "pamtest-edvint", salt=0x7ffff31e17b8 "dIJbsXKc0", xapi-project#5 0x00007ffff1b8d070 in __crypt_r (key=key@entry=0x7fffd8005a60 "pamtest-edvint", salt=<optimized out>, xapi-project#6 0x00007ffff1dc9abc in verify_pwd_hash (p=p@entry=0x7fffd8005a60 "pamtest-edvint", hash=<optimized out>, nullok=nullok@entry=0) at passverify.c:111 xapi-project#7 0x00007ffff1dc9139 in _unix_verify_password (pamh=pamh@entry=0x7fffd8002910, name=0x7fffd8002ab0 "pamtest-edvint", p=0x7fffd8005a60 "pamtest-edvint", ctrl=ctrl@entry=8389156) at support.c:777 xapi-project#8 0x00007ffff1dc6556 in pam_sm_authenticate (pamh=0x7fffd8002910, flags=<optimized out>, argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at pam_unix_auth.c:178 xapi-project#9 0x00007ffff7bcef1a in _pam_dispatch_aux (use_cached_chain=<optimized out>, resumed=<optimized out>, h=<optimized out>, flags=1, pamh=0x7fffd8002910) at pam_dispatch.c:110 xapi-project#10 _pam_dispatch (pamh=pamh@entry=0x7fffd8002910, flags=1, choice=choice@entry=1) at pam_dispatch.c:426 xapi-project#11 0x00007ffff7bce7e0 in pam_authenticate (pamh=0x7fffd8002910, flags=flags@entry=1) at pam_auth.c:34 xapi-project#12 0x00000000005ae567 in XA_mh_authorize (username=username@entry=0x7fffd80028d0 "pamtest-edvint", password=password@entry=0x7fffd80028f0 "pamtest-edvint", error=error@entry=0x7ffff31e1be8) at xa_auth.c:83 xapi-project#13 0x00000000005adf20 in stub_XA_mh_authorize (username=<optimized out>, password=<optimized out>) at xa_auth_stubs.c:42 ``` `pam_start` and `pam_end` doesn't help here, because on `pam_end` the library is `dlclose`-ed, so on next `pam_authenticate` it will have to go through the initialization code again. (This initialization code would've belonged into `pam_start`, not `pam_authenticate`, but there are several layers here including a call to `crypt_r`). Upstream has fixed this problem >5 years ago by switching to libxcrypt instead. Signed-off-by: Edwin Török <[email protected]>
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