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Version 8.39.0 [v8-stable] 2018-10-30
- imfile: improve truncation detection
previously, truncation was only detected at end of file. Especially with
busy files that could cause loss of data and possibly also stall imfile
reading. The new code now also checks during each read. Obviously, there
is some additional overhead associated with that, but this is unavoidable.
It still is highly recommended NOT to turn on "reopenOnTruncate" in imfile.
Note that there are also inherant reliability issues. There is no way to
"fix" these, as they are caused by races between the process(es) who truncate
and rsyslog reading the file. But with the new code, the "problem window"
should be much smaller and, more importantly, imfile should not stall.
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2659
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1605
- errmsg: remove no longer needed code
refectored code (over a long time) so that object-ish style is no longer
needed and could now finally be removed; We also refactored the last
component (omhttp contrib module) that used the old interface.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1684
- bugfix imrelp: regression with legacy configuration startup fail
Startup of a relp listener failed if legacy configuration was used.
caused by commit: 32b71daa8aadb8f16fe0ca2945e54d593f47a824
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/3106
- bugfix gcry crypto driver: small memleak
If a crypto key is specified directly via the key="" parameter,
the storage for that key is not freed, causing a small memleak.
Note that the problem occurs only once per context, so this
should not cause real issues. Even more so, as specifying a
key directly is meant only for testing purposes and is strongly
discouraged for production use.
Detected by internal testing, no actual fail case known.
- core bugfix: regex compile error messages could be incorrect
- bugfix core: potential hang on rsyslog termination
The root cause was a deadlock during worker startup. This could
happen for example when a DA queue needed to persist data during
shutdown.
Fail condition:
* startup request for a new worker
* initialization of that worker
* immediate detection that the worker can or must shutdown
* main thread waiting for worker running state, which it skips,
and so the main thread hangs inside a loop
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/3094
- bugfix imfile: file change was not reliably detected
A change in the inode was not detected under all circumstances,
most importantly not in some logrotate cases.
Includes new tests made by Andre Lorbach. They now use the
logrotate tool natively to reproduce the issue.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2659
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1605
- bugfix imrelp: do not fail build if librelp does not have relpSrvSetLstnAddr
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2938
- bugfix queue subsystem: DA queue did ignore encryption settings
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/3066
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2575
- bugfix KSI: lmsig-ksils12 module skips signing the last block
Thanks to Allan Park for the patch.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/3105
- bugfix fmhash: function hash64mod sometimes returned wrong result
Thanks to Harshvardhan Shrivastava for providing the patch
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/3025
- CI:
* some small improvements in testbench plumbing
e.g. (`cmd` replaced by $(cmd), removed useless use of cat, ...)
* testbench: improve plumbing for kafka tests
- Removed all sleeps where possible.
- Moved all kafka start/stop/download logic into functions.
- Moved kafka/zookeeper stop into error_exit and exit_test.
- Kafka/Zookeeper cleanup only done on success now.
- Kafka/Zookeeper logfiles automatically dumped on error_exit only now.
- Added cleanup for Kafka/Zookeeper instances into CI/buildbot_cleanup.sh
* testbench: fix incompatibility of one omprog test with Python3
Python3 writes to stderr immediately, and this caused the
captured output to differ with respect to Python2. Simplified
the test to do a single write to stderr. Also a cast to int
was needed when calculating 'numRepeats'.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/3030
* testbench: fixed imfile parallel issues
- Fixed timing issues in some imfile wildcard/regex tests
- Added touch command in imfile wildcard tests to make sure directories
exist before files are created in it if IO is under stress.
- changed content checking in some tests to use "content_check_with_count"
with check timeouts instead of using fixed sleeptimes.
* testbench: new basic tests
These ensure that for some modules that did not have any tests at all
we have at least a minimal coverage (module loads, activates, is able
to emit error messages). Of course, further improvements would make
much sense. Modules:
- ommail
- testbench: new tests for disk queue encryption
- testbench: improved auto-diagnostics for hanging instance
- testbench: hardened kafka test against failing kafka subsyste,
not in 100% of the cases, but at least in some that frequently occur
- failing tests now report failure status so that we can get stats
on unreliable tests
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Version 8.38.0 [v8-stable] 2018-09-18
- AIX: make basic modules work again
- make rsyslog build on AIX again
... at least for a limited set of default modules
- imfile: support for endmsg.regex
This adds support for endmsg.regex. It is similar to
startmsg.regex except that it matches the line that denotes
the end of the message, rather than the start of the next message.
This is primarily for container log file use cases such as this:
date stdout P start of message
date stdout P middle of message
date stdout F end of message
The `F` means this is the line which contains the final part of
the message. The fully assembled message should be
`start of message middle of message end of message`.
`startmsg.regex="^[^ ]+ stdout F "` will match.
Thanks to Richard Megginson for the patch.
- imkafka: add parameter "parseHostName"
This enables imkafka to parse the hostname from log message.
Previously that was not possible. It was most likely a bug, but
one that users may count on. The new parameter "ParseHostName"
(default is off) controls this behaviour. Default is to NOT
parse the hostname.
Thanks to github user snaix for the contribution.
- im[p]tcp: improve error message on connect failure
Now a message with the actual OS error is emitted, making things far
easier to troubleshoot.
- imkafka: implement multithreading support for kafka consumers.
Each consumer runs in it's own consumer thread now. New tests have also
been added for this.
- omelasticsearch: write all header metadata to $.omes for retries
Write all of the original request metadata fields to $.omes for
the retry, if present. This may include all of the following:
_index, _type, _id, _parent, pipeline
This is in addition to the fields from the response. If the same
field name exists in the request metadata and the response, the
field from the request will be used, in order to facilitate
retrying the exact same request.
Thanks to Richard Megginson for the patch.
- core: improve error message on module load fail
The error message now lists all dlopen() errors in depth. This is
especially useful if the error is due to missing symbols or file
format errors.
- core/queue: add error message if queue file cannot be accessed
When having a disk-assisted queue without permission to write to the specified
queue file an error will now be generated.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/323
- imtcp/imudp: new option preservecase for managing the case of FROMHOST value
default is left at current behavior
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/2774
see also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1309698
- omprog: add feedback timeout and keep-alive feature
- Restart the program if it does not respond within timeout.
- New setting 'confirmTimeout' (default 10 seconds).
- Allow the program to provide keep-alive feedback when a
message requires long-running processing.
- Improve efficiency when reading feedback line (use buffer).
Retry interrupted writes/reads to/from pipe.
- New setting 'reportFailures' for reporting error messages
from the program.
- Report child termination when writing to pipe.
- Minor refactor: renamed writePipe function to sendMessage,
renamed readPipe to readStatus.
Thanks to Joan Sala for contributing this.
- omprog: fix forceSingleInstance configuration option
The foriceSingleInstance option did not work as intended. Even
if set multiple instances were spawned. This most probably
was a regression from 0453b1670fc34c96d31ee7c9a370f0f5ec24744a
The code was broken roughly 3.5yrs ago, so it looks like the
issue was little-noticed. This also means that potentially some users
may see the bugfix as change of behaviour. If so, just remove
the option.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2813
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2468
Thanks to Joan Sala for contributing this.
- imfile: implement file-id, used in state file
This ensures that files with the same inodes are not accidently treated
as equal, at least within the limits of the file id hash (see doc for
details).
We use the siphash reference implementation to generate our non-cryptographic
hash.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2530
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2231
- imfile: experimental input throtteling feature
The new input parameter delay.message has been added. It specifies
a delay in microseconds after each line read.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2960
- core: emit TZ warning on startup not on Linux non-container
On Linux it seems common that the TZ variable is NOT properly set.
There are some concerns that the warning related to rsyslog correcting
this confuses users. It also seems that the corrective action rsyslog
takes is right, and so there is no hard need to inform users on that.
In Linux containers, however, the warning seems to be useful as the
timezone setup there seems to be frequently-enough different and
rsyslog's corrective action may not be correct.
So we now check if we are running under Linux and not within a container.
If so, we do not emit the warning. In all other case, we do. This is
based on the assumption that other unixoid systems still should have
TZ properly set.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2994
- omkafka:
* better debug information
* Fixed minor issue in omkafka producing wrong kafka timestamps when
msgTimestamp was NULL.
* Setting RD_KAFKA_V_KEY(NULL, 0) in rd_kafka_producev now when KEY is not
configured.
* Fixed minor issue when rsyslog is compiled with --enable-debug and
librdkafka is too old.
- omfile bugfix: errant error message when dynafile param needed
also fixes related message in contributed module omfile-hardened
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2975
Thanks to Frank Bicknell for the patch
- omhttp: new contribued module
Thanks to Christian Tramnitz for contributing it.
Some more info at https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/2782
- mmkubertnetes: action fails preparation cycle if kubernetes API ...
... destroys resource during bootup sequence
The plugin was not handling 404 Not Found correctly when looking
up pods and namespaces. In this case, we assume the pod/namespace
was deleted, annotate the record with whatever metadata we have,
and cache the fact that the pod/namespace is missing so we don't
attempt to look it up again.
In addition, the plugin was not handling error 429 Busy correctly.
In this case, it should also annotate the record with whatever
metadata it has, and _not_ cache anything. By default the plugin
will retry every 5 seconds to connect to Kubernetes. This
behavior is controlled by the new config param `busyretryinterval`.
This commit also adds impstats counters so that admins can
view the state of the plugin to see if the lookups are working
or are returning errors. The stats are reported per-instance
or per-action to facilitate using multiple different actions
for different Kubernetes servers.
This commit also adds support for client cert auth to
Kubernetes via the two new config params `tls.mycert` and
`tls.myprivkey`.
Thanks to Richard Megginson for the patch.
- bugfix pmnormalize/core: several memory leaks, invld property handling
- major memory leak which occurred once per message processed
So this could lead to OOM. Caused by improper free of json
structure
- another two major leaks of similar magnitued could occur if
"fromhost-ip" and/or "fromhost" properties were set
- minor leaks upon termination. these were unproblematic as
static and only occured immediately before shutdown.
But they triggered memory debugger errors.
- fixed test which did not check for mem leaks albeit it should
- core invalid handling of the "fromhost" property, if set via
the MsgSetPropsViaJSON() call. This was primarily of concern
for pmnormalize and mmexternal, and only if these properties
were used by either the rulebase or the external program
response.
Actually, most of the leaks go back to rsyslog core, but that
core functionality was not used by other modules in the same
way. But if some other would have used it, the effects would
have been the same (so be aware if you wrote custom modules).
- bugfix imptcp: fixed pointers for session counting
imptcp open, failedopen, and closed pstats counters were assigned the wrong
name, thus pstats values did provide a totally wrong picture of what was
going on.
Thanks to github user jeverakes for the patch.
- bugfix omprog: invalid memory access on partial writes to pipe
When sending logs to the program, in case of a partial write to the pipe,
invalid data was sent, or an invalid memory access could occur. (A
partial write can occur if the syscall is interrupted or the pipe is full.)
Thanks to Joan Sala for contributing this.
- bugfix omprog: rsyslog's environment was not passed to script
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2921
- bugfix omprog: severity of some log messages in waitForChild corrected
Log some messages related to child process termination as info/warn
instead of error.
- bugfix imfile: files which were loaded via symlink were not always followed
They were stopped watching after being rotated.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2229
Thanks to Jiri Vymazal for the patch.
- bugfix imfile: potential misadressing when processing symlinks
Fixed parent name when processing symlinks. Detected during code review.
There was a garbage byte left before which could cause errors down the
road.
Thanks to Jiri Vymazal for the patch.
- bugfix ommongodb: build issue if mongo-c-driver is not compiled with TLS
Let ommongodb module works even if mongo-c-driver is not compiled with SSL support.
Thanks to Jérémie Jourdin for the patch.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2907
- CI:
* many changes with the goal to support parallel test execution, e.g.
use dynamic ports and file names, changes to testing tools, etc.
* kafka tests re-enabled, as they should now no longer be racy. However,
this has yet to be prooven in practice.
* upgrading kafka server version to current
* Fixed server configuration issues holding the kafka tests back from working
* Fixed some config issues in all sndrcv kafka tests.
* Generating dynamically kafka topics now for each kafka test.
* Renabled kafka_multi test which runs a test on 3 kafka/zookeeper instances
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Version 8.37.0 [v8-stable] 2018-08-07
- build system: add --enable-default-tests ./configure option
This permits to control the "default tests" in testbench runs. These
are those tests that do not need a special configure option. There are
some situations where we really want to turn them of so that we can
run tests only for a specific component (e.g. ElasticSearch).
This commit also removes the --enable-testbench[12] configure switches,
which were introduced just to work-around travis runtime restrictions.
With the new CI setup and new options we could reduce the Travis runtime
dramatically and so we do not need them any longer.
- overall adaption to gcc 8 which emits new warnings
- fix some build warnings on 32bit systems, namely armhf architecture
- ommail change of behavior: "enable.body" default now "on"
This was always documented to be "on", but actually was "off". Usually, we
fix the doc, but after long discussion the agreement was that in this
specific case it was actually better to change the default.
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/2791
- core/omfile: race in async writing mode
mutex was not properly locked at all times when the async writing buffer
was flushed
Thanks to Radovan Sroka for the patch.
- core: provide a somewhat better default action name
We now inlcude the module name (e.g. "omelasticsearch" or "builtin:omfile")
as part of the name. This is still not perfect, but hopefully a bit
easier to grasp.
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/342
- new global() parameter "abortOnUncleanConfig"
This provides a new-style alternative to $AbortOnUncleanConfig.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2744
- tcpflood no longer links with -lgrcypt
as this is no longer necessary for GnuTLS
Thanks to Michael Biebl for the patch.
- imjournal: add journal-specific impstats counters
these provide some additional insight into journal operations
Thanks to Abdul Waheed for the patch.
- imjournal: fixed startup on missing state file
When starting rsyslog with imjournal for first time it outputs
an error and plugin does not run because no state file exists yet.
Now it skips the loading and creates state file on first persist.
Thanks to Jiri Vymazal for the patch.
- imjournal: fetching cursor on readJournal() and simplified pollJournal()
Fetching journal cursor in persistJournal could cause us to save
invalid cursor leading to duplicating messages further on, when new
WorkAroundJournalBug option is set we are saving it on each
readJournal() where we now that the state is good.
pollJournal() is now cleaner and faster, correctly handles INVALIDATE
status from journald and is able to continue polling after journal
flush. Also reduced POLL_TIMEOUT a bit as it caused rsyslog to exit
with error in corner cases for some ppc when left at full second.
re-factored imjournal CI tests with journal_print tool to have more
detailed error reporting.
Thanks to Jiri Vymazal for the patch.
- config: enhance backticks "echo" capability
This is now more along the lines of what bash does. We now support
multiple environment variable expansions as well as constant text
between them.
example:
env SOMEPATH is set to "/var/log/custompath"
config is: param=`echo $SOMEPATH/myfile`
param than is expaned to "/var/log/custompath/myfile"
among others, this is also needed inside the testbench to properly
support "make distcheck".
Note: testbench tests follows via separate commit. There will be
no special test, as the testbench itself requires the functionality
at several places, so the coverage will be very good even without
a dedicated test.
- imrelp: add support for seting address to bind to (#894)
This adds a new optional `address` parameter to `imrelp` inputs in order
to specify an address to bind to.
Based on support added by rsyslog/librelp@96eb5be
Thanks to Simon Wachter for the patch.
- omrelp: permit all authmodes; updated tests
omrelp for some time limited authentication modes to those
that were known. While this was OK, it prevented the easy
introduction of new auth modes into librel.
This has now been changed; omrelp now checks the validity of
the authmode directly via librelp by doing some librelp calls
upon processing the configuration.
Also, some tests have been updated to check this feature and
also ensure that the new librelp mode "certvalid" works
(if it is available).
- regexp.c: reduce lock contention when using glibc.
When using glibc, we enable per-thread regex to avoid lock contention.
See:
- https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2759
- https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/2786
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11159
This should not affect BSD as they don't seem to take a lock in regexec.
NOTE: it is assumed that we can craft an even better solution than
this patch, but it improves the situation and we do not have time to
craft more. So we decided to merge. For details see
https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/2786
- mmpstrucdata: better error message, support $! in var names
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1262#issuecomment-404773495
- more explicit error msg with message modification mod on queue
Message modification modules do not work if used with a non-direct queue.
We now make this more explicit in the config parsing error message.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1323
- omrabittmq: improve high-load performance
A different pthread mutex is created for each connection (action)
instead of a single one shared by all connections. This will
improve performance when using multiple concurrent connections
to a single (or multiple) RabbitMQ instance(s) (e.g. for load balancing)
Thanks to github user micoq for contributing the patch.
- imudp: replace select() calls by poll()
This improves reliability in extreme cases (more than 1024 fds open when
imudp begins to listen) and potentially improves performance a little.
- ommysql: support mysql unix domain socket:
via action(.. socket="/tmp/mysqld.sock" ..)
Thanks to JoungKyun Kim for contributing this.
- impstats: emit warning if log.syslog="off" and ruleset name given
With this config, "ruleset" is silently ignored, what probably is
not obvious to a user.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2821
- build system cleanup: remove no longer needed --enable-memcheck
This was used for a very old testing capability, no longer functional but
causes build to fail if enabled. Replaced by ASAN/valgrind.
Issue detected while testing some other CI settings.
- tools: Updated python based statslog analyzer sample scripts
- developer tools: make devcontainer tool more developer friendly
slight improvement for easy interactive use
- enable better testing via "make distcheck"
Also a couple of changes to testbench worth mentioning:
* use cp -f to ensure files can be overwirtten in VBUILD
* fix issue of missing include test file in EXTRA_DIST
* new supressions
* testbench: try to use local system dependency cache
avoid going to Internet repos if not absolutely necessary. For
development containers, they should be pre-populated with the
important dependencies.
* do not enable libfaketime if ASAN is selected
unfortunately, libfaketime does not work in that case
Note: for modules with non-standard dependencies (e.g. databases),
"make distcheck" only enables what on the original ./configure line
was enabled. This is done in order to ensure that "distcheck" adapts
to what is actually available on the system in question. Rsyslog's
own CI system installs the maximum set of possible dependencies and
so tries the maximum set "make distcheck" can support on a platform.
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/174
- add new global config parameter "inputs.timeout.shutdown"
- omusrmsg: do not fall back to max username length of 8
This happens if utmp.h and friends are not available and stems back to
the original syslogd. Nowadas, 32 is more appropriate and now being used
in that (now very unlikely) case. The detection logic for UT_NAMESIZE has
also been streamlined.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2834
- bugfix build system: fix race in parallel builds
If libgcry.la is built later than lmcry_gcry.la, there is a failure:
[snip]
|../aarch64-wrs-linux-libtool --tag=CC --mode=link aarch64-wrs-linux-gcc
-o lmcry_gcry.la lmcry_gcry_la-lmcry_gcry.lo libgcry.la -lgcrypt
|aarch64-wrs-linux-libtool: error: cannot find the library 'libgcry.la'
or unhandled argument 'libgcry.la'
|Makefile:1049: recipe for target 'lmcry_gcry.la' failed
|make[2]: *** [lmcry_gcry.la] Error 1
[snip]
The LIBADD of lmcry_gcry.la contains libgcry.la, we should also add libgcry.la
to lmcry_gcry.la's DEPENDENCIES.
Thanks to Hongxu Jia for the patch.
- bugfix imfile: memory leak upon shutdown (cosmetic)
When rsyslog shuts down and imfile is inside a change polling loop,
it does not properly free memory returned by glob(). This is a cosmetic
bug as the process terminates within the next few milliseconds. However,
it causes memory analyzer reports and thus makes CI fail.
- bugfix core msg: potential deadlock (and rsyslog hang)
can happen e.g. with headerless messages when app-name
property is used
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/3135
- bugfix core: do not abort startup on problems setting scheduling policy
rsyslog creates a default scheduling policy on startup. This code
invalidly used CHKiRet (our exception handler) to check pthreads
return codes, what this macro cannot do. This lead to hard to
diagnose startup problems in cases where there were problems
setting the scheduling defaults (e.g. when rsyslog is set to run
at idle priority). Even more so, this blocked startup altogether,
which is not the right thing to do. Actually, this can be considered
a regression from commit 7742b21. That commit was 8 years ago, so
in general this cannot be a big issues ;-)
The code now emits proper error messages (to stderr, as at this point
no other output is available as it is during the initial state of
rsyslog initialization) and continues the startup.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2855
- bugfix core: input shutdown timeout not properly applied
The timeout could be reduced by mutex wait time, which was not the
intended behaviour and could lead the the input thread being
cancelled while it would have been perfectly legal to shut it down
cleanly.
Noticed during working on the CI system. May explain some testbench
instability and may have caused trouble with state files (not)
properly being written by inputs.
- bugfix config optimizer: error in constant folding
did not work properly if a string and a number were to be folded.
Detected by gcc 8.
- build: fix improper function casts
no real issue, but generated warnings under gcc 8 and thus
broke CI
- bugfix omlibdbi: fix potential small memory leak
detected by clang static analyzer
- bugfix ommysql: unsafe use of strncpy()
also now reports oversize names as user error vs. silent trucation
overly long names only could affect config load phase
- bugfix omhttpfs: fix insecure usage if strncmp()
consequences not evaluated as this is a contributed module.
Detected by gcc 8.
- bugfix mmgrok: cosmetic build issue - compiler warings
caused build under gcc 7 to fail with warning
- bugfix mmkubernetes: stops working with non-kubernetes container names
When mmkubernetes encounters a record with a CONTAINER_NAME field,
but the value does not match the rulebase, mmkubernetes returns
an error, and mmkubernetes does not do any further processing
of any records.
The fix is to check the return value of ln_normalize to see if
it is a "hard" error or a "does not match" error.
This also adds a test for pod names with dots in them.
Thanks to Richard Megginson for the patch.
- bugfix mmkubernetes: potential NULL pointer access
If token file could not be opened, fclose() was passed a NULL pointer.
Thanks to github user jvymazal for finding and Richard Megginson
for fixing the issue.
- bugfix omsnmp: invalid traptype was not detected
this could leave config errors unreported and cause unexpected
behaviour
- bugfix mmkubernetes: default rules use container_name_and_id
also include rulebase files in dist and fix rule so that dot inside
pod name is supported.
Thanks to Richard Megginson for fixing the issue.
- bugfix omelasticsearch: build regression
Commit 6d4635efbb13907bf651b1a6e5a545effe84d9d9 introduced some compile
problems, which were only detected on CentOS6, which unfortunately did
not compile omelasticsearch during CI runs
- bugfix ommongodb: do not force MongoDB to use "PLAIN" auth mechanism
... which also seems not to be handled by current MongoDB.
Remove ?authMechanism=PLAIN URI part to let the mongo library chooses the
default mechanism. One can force a specific authentication mechanism by
adding ?authMechanism=XXX into the uristr argument of the module
Thanks to Jérémie Jourdin for the fix.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2753
- build system: do not disable tests via --disable-liblogging-stdlog
This setting controlled both the actual rsyslog functionality as well
as some testbench tests, which use liblogging-stdlog to provide some
specific functionality. This meant those tests were not run since
changing the default. Now untangling the dependency.
- CI:
* most test refactored to use newer testbench plumbing
while no functional change, this permits further enhancements
* ElasticSearch startup timeout in tests increased to care for
slower test systems
* imjournal: fixed tests to actually test plugin functionality
Thanks to Jiri Vymazal for the patch.
* new test for gnutls priority string in librelp
Thanks to github user jvymazal for the patch
* testbench: relax hanging instance detection
This does not work reliably if multiple instances of rsyslog
builds run on a single machine. We need to improve, but this
commit makes conflict less likely and provides some diagnostic
info to help guide us towards a final solution.
* testbench: fix tests that look awfully wrong
These tests indicated they terminate rsyslog forcefully without
drainging the queues, but then checked if they were drained (all
messages processed). That does not make sense, and we cannot
envison why this was written the first place. So we assume some
copy&paste problem was the root of that.
* testbench: refactor tests which used "nettester" tool
Some old tests are carried out via the nettester tool. This was
our initial shot at a testbench a couple of years ago. While it
worked back then, the testbench framework has been much enhanced.
These old tests are nowadays very hard to handle, as they miss
debug support etc. So it is time to refactor them to new style.
As a side-activity, the testbench plumbing has been enhanced to
support some operations commonly needed by these tests. Contrary
to pre-existing plumbing, these new operations are now crafted
using bash functions, which we consider superior to the current
method. So this is also the start of converting the older-style
functionality into bash functions. We just did this now because
it was required and we entangled it into the test refactoring
because it was really needed. Else we had to write old-style
operations and convert them in another commit, which would
have been a waste of time.
Special thanks to Pascal Withopf for the initial step of taking
old tests and putting config as well as test data together into
the refactored tests, on which Rainer Gerhards than could build
to create the new tests and update testbench plumbing.
* testbench: ensure uxsock test leaves no dangling listener instances
..in case the test aborts. We utilize the timeout utility for now
to prevent this.
* testbench: make port for imdiag dynamic
This is prep work to support parallel test runs
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Version 8.36.0 [v8-stable] 2018-06-26
- build system change:
Liblogging-stdlog was introduced to provide a broader ability to send rsyslog
internal logs to different sources. However, most distros did not pick up
that capability and so instead we do a regular syslog() call. We assume that
the actual functionality is never used in practice, so we plan to retire it.
That makes building rsyslog from source easier.
The plan is to disable use of liblogging-stdlog by default during
configure. So users (and distros!) can still opt-in to have it enabled if
they desire.
A couple of releases later, we want to completely remove the functionality,
except if there has desire been shown in the meantime which justifies to keep
liblogging-stdlog.
This version disabled liblogging-stdlog by default. We now also
emit a warning message ("liblogging-stdlog will go away") so that users
know what is going on and my react.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2705
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2706
- add openssl driver alongside GnuTLS one for TLS communication
The openssl driver is curently experimental. It will become the new preferred
driver as it permits us to provide much better end-user error message than
we could provide with GnuTLS. It is also less picky with certificate files
and provides specific error messages if there are certificate problems.
closes: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1390
closes: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1840
closes: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1352
closes: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1702
closes: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2547
- GnuTLS TLS driver: support intermediate certificates
this is necessary for certificate chains
Thanks to Arne Nordmark for providing the patch.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2762
- omelasticsearch: write op types; bulk rejection retries
* Add support for a 'create' write operation type in addition to
the default 'index'. Using create allows specifying a unique id
for each record, and allows duplicate document detection.
* Add support for checking each record returned in a bulk index
request response. Allow specifying a ruleset to send each failed
record to. Add a local variable `omes` which contains the
information in the error response, so that users can control how
to handle responses e.g. retry, or send to an error file.
* Add support for response stats - count successes, duplicates, and
different types of failures.
* Add testing for bulk index rejections.
Thanks to Richard Megginson for the patch.
- lookup tables: reload message now with "info" severity (was "error")
thanks to Adam Chalkley for the patch
- imptcp: add support for regex-based framing
for complex multi-line messages (XML in particular), the multiLine method
does not work well. We now have a capability to specify via a regex when
a frame starts (and the previous thus ends).
adds imptcp input parameter "framing.delimiter.regex"
- imjournal: add statistics counter
following statistics counter are now supported by imjournal
- submitted = total number of messages submitted for processing
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2549
- config: permit 4-digit file creation modes
permit 4-digit file creation modes (actually 5 with the leading zero) so
that the setgid bit can also be set (and anything else on that position.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1092
- ommongodb: add possibility to ignore some insertion error code
new config parameter "allowed_error_codes", which will be ignored if
they happen. For example, 11000 DuplicateKey in case of collection
containing a unique field.
Thanks to Hugo Soszynski for contributing this work
- omprog: simplify 'plugin-with-feedback.py' example
Make the skeleton easier to understand by removing transaction support.
Also, transaction failures did not work as explained in the skeleton,
because of issue #2420. In the future, a 'plugin-with-transactions.py'
example can be added, ideally once the issue is solved.
Thanks to Joan Sala for contributing this.
- core: misadressing when writing disk queue files
when writing disk queue files during shutdown, access to freed
memory can occur under these circumstances:
- action A is processing data, but could not complete it
most importantly, the current in-process batch needs not to
be totally completed. Most probable cause for this scenario
is a suspended action in retry mode.
- action A is called from a ruleset RA which
- does not have a queue assigned
- where RA is called from a ruleset RO which is bound
to the input from which the message originated
- RO must be defined before RA inside the expanded config
- Disk queues (or the disk part of a DA queue) must be utilized by A
When re-injecting the unprocessed messages from A into the disk queue, the
name of ruleset RO is accessed (for persisting to disk). However, RO is
already destructed at this point in time.
The patch changes the shutdown processing of rulesets, so that all
shutdown processing is done before any ruleset data is destructed. This
ensures that all data items which potentially need to be accessed
remain valid as long as some part may potentially try to access them.
This follows a the approach used in
https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/1857
where obviously that part of the problem was not noticed.
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1122
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2742
- core: fix message loss on target unavailibility during shutdown
Triggering condition:
- action queue in disk mode (or DA)
- batch is being processed by failed action in retry mode
- rsyslog is shut down without resuming action
In these cases messages may be lost by not properly writing them
back to the disk queue.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2760
- imrelp bugfix: error message "librelp too old" is always emitted ...
... even if librelp is current. The codition check was actually missing.
This commit adds it.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2712
- imrelp: segfault on startup when cert without priv key is configured
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2747
- omrelp bugfix: segfault on first message sent when authmode was wrong
A segfault could occur if the authmode was configured to an invalid value.
This is now caught during config processing and an error is reported.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2743
- imfile bugfix: double-free on module shutdown
detected by code review, not seen in practice
- imfile/core bugfix: potential misadressing in string copy routine
This can be exposed via imfile, as follows:
- use a regex to process multiline messages
- configure timeouts
- make sure imfile reads a partial message
- wait so that at least one timeout occurs
- add the message termination sequence
This leads to a misadressing, which may have no obvious effects potentially
up to a segfault.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2661
- imfile bugfix: if freshStartTail is set some initial file lines missing
When the option is set and a new file is created after rsyslog startup,
freshStartTail is also applied to it. That is data written quickly to it
(before rsyslog can process it) will potentially be discarded. If so,
and how much, depends on the timing between rsyslog and the logging process.
This problem is most likely to be seen in polling mode, where a relatively
long time may be required for rsyslog to find the new file.
This is changed so that now freshStartTail only applies to files that
are already-existing during rsyslog's initial processing of the file
monitors. HOWEVER, depending on the number and location (network?) of
existing files, this initial startup processing may take some time as
well. If another process creates a new file at exactly the time of
startup processing and writes data to it, rsyslog might detect this
file and it's data as prexisting and may skip it. This race is inevitable.
So when freshStartTail is used, some risk of data loss exists. The same
holds true if between the last shutdown of rsyslog and its restart log
file content has been added. This is no rsyslog bug if it occurs.
As such, the rsyslog team advises against activating the freshStartTail
option.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2464
- core: fix undefined behaviour (unsigned computation may lead to value < 0)
This was detected by LLVM UBSAN. On some platforms re-setting the rawmsg
inside the message object could lead to invalid computation due to the
fact the the computation was carried out as unsigned and only then
converted to integer.
No known problem in practice.
- CI/QA:
- improved Elasticsearch tests so they can now be run without system-
installed ES service; also enables us to specify specific ES versions
and should now make the tests executable inside a container
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 8.35.0 [v8-stable] 2018-05-15
- imptcp: add ability to configure socket backlog
this can be useful under heavy load.
For a detailled discussion see https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/2561
Thanks to Maxime Graff for implementing this.
- omfile: do not permit filename that only consists of whitespace
- fmhash: new hash function module
implements hash32() and hash64() functions
Thanks to Harshvardhan Shrivastava for implementing these
- some better error messages
- imklog: add ratelimiting capability
On Linux kernel logs are ratelimited only for messages using
printk_ratelimit(). Some logs do not use this facility, so
we ratelimit kernel ourselves.
Thanks to Berend De Schouwer for the patch.
- omkafka: added impstats counters for librdkafka returned statistics
Adds:
* statscallback counters
* librdkafka failure and error counters
* acked message counter
Thanks to Abdul Waheed for implementing this.
- imudp
* use rsyslog message rate-limiter instead of home-grown one
imudp introduced it's own (feature-limited) rate-limiting capability for
message on disallowed senders before we had central rate-limiters
inside rsyslog. Also, that code evolved from running on a single
thread to running on multiple threads, which introduced data races
and so made unreliable.
Now we removed the old rate-limiting capability and depend on the
system rate limiter for internal rsyslog messages.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2467
* add stats counter "disallowed"
counts the number of messages discarded due to being received from
disallowed senders
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2467
- imrelp: add parameter "oversizeMode"
Permits to instruct librelp how to handle oversize messages. The new default
is to truncate messages. Previously, the connection was aborted, what often
lead to stuck messages at the sender side. Now, there are three options passed
down to librelp:
* abort - same behavior as previously, connection is aborted on error
* truncate - do not abort but instead truncate oversize message to
configured max size
* accept - accept all oversize messages (note: this can cause security issues,
see doc for details)
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/1525#issuecomment-384179393
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2190
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2633
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1741
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1782
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2496
- core: consistent handling of oversize input messages
In the community we frequently discuss handling of oversize messages.
David Lang rightfully suggested to create a central capability inside
rsyslog core to handle them.
We need to make a distinction between input and output messages. Also,
input messages frequently need to have some size restrictions done at
a lower layer (e.g. protocol layer) for security reasons. Nevertheless,
we should have a central capability
* for cases where it need not be handled at a lower level
* as a safeguard when a module invalidly emits it (imfile is an example,
see https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/2632 for a try to fix it
on the module level - we will replace that with the new capability
described here).
The central capability works on message submission, and so cannot be
circumvented. It has these capabilities:
* overisze message handling modes:
- truncate message
- split message
this is of questionable use, but also often requested. In that mode,
the oversize message content is split into multiple messages. Usually,
this ends up with message segments where all but the first is lost
anyhow as the regular filter rules do not match the other fragments.
As it is requested, we still implemented it.
- accept message as is, even if oversize
This may be required for some cases. Most importantly, it makes
quite some sense when writing messages to file, where oversize
does not matter (accept from a DoS PoV).
* report message to a special "oversize message log file" (not via the
regular engine, as that would obviously cause another oversize message)
This commit, as the title says, handles oversize INPUT messages.
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2190
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2681
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/498
Note: this commit adds global parameters:
* "oversizemsg.errorfile",
is used to specify the location of the oversize message log file.
* "oversizemsg.report",
is used to control if an error shall be reported when an oversize
message is seen. The default it "on".
* add global parameter "oversizemsg.input.mode"
is used to specify the mode with which oversized messages will
be handled.
- omfwd: add support for bind-to-address for UDP
To allow the same source address to be used regardless of the egress
interface taken, an option is added for an address to bind the datagram
socket to. Similarly to imudp, it is necessary to add an ipfreebind
option which is set by default, so as to avoid an excess of errors at
startup before the network interface has come up. This enhancement
allows a usecase on networking devices, by which a source interface
that is typically a loopback is specified, on which an address to bind
to is configured. This is so that the same source address is used for
all packets from rsyslog.
Thanks to Mike Manning for the patch.
- template systemd service file proposes higher permitted file handle limit
Especially on busy systems the default are too low. Please keep in mind
that on a very busy system even the now-proposed setting may be too low.
Thanks to github user jvymazal for the patch.
- imuxsock: replace select() call by poll()
While extremely unlikely, imuxsock could abort if a file descriptor
> 1024 was received during the startup phase (never occured in
practice, but theoretically could if imfile monitored a large number
of files and were loaded before imuxsock - and maybe other
strange cases).
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2615
- nsdsel_ptcp: replace select() by poll()
This removes us of problems with fds > 1024. The performance will
probably also increase in most cases.
Note this is not a replacement for the epoll drivers, but a general
stability improvement when epoll() is not available for some reason.
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2615
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1728
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1459
- omprog: refactor tests, fix child closing issues
Refactor omprog tests. Fix sync issues in these tests by
using the feedback mode (confirmMessages=on) to synchronize
the test with the external program. Closes #2403 (I hope)
Fix omprog not properly closing child process when
signalOnClose=on. Needed for the new tests. Closes #2599
Fix omprog not waiting for the child process to terminate
when signalOnClose=off. Needed for the new tests. Closes #2600
Close all fds before executing the child even when valgrind
is enabled (--enable-valgrind). Needed for the new tests.
Fix memory leak when the xxxTransactionMark parameters were
used.
Thanks to Joan Sala for the patch.
- core: config optimizer did not handle call_indirect
This also caused the emission of an "internal error" error message
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2665
- debug support: add capability to print testbench-specific timeout reports
done by setting RSYSLOG_DEBUG_TIMEOUTS_TO_STDERR to "on"
this is by default activated inside the testbench
- mmgrok: fix potential segfault
The modules used strtok(), which is not thread-safe. So it will potentially
segfault when multiple instances are spawned (what e.g. happens on busy
systems).
This patch replaces strtok() with its thread-safe counterpart
strtok_r().
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1359
- imrelp bugfix: maxDataSize could be set lower than maxMessageSize
maxDataSize specifies the length which will still be accepted
It previously could be set to any value, including values lower than the
configured rsyslog max message size, which makes no sense. Now this is
checked an error message is emitted if the size is set too low.
- build system bugfix: build broken if liblogging-stdlog installed in custom path
Thanks to Dirk Hörner for the patch.
- core bugfix: segfault on queue shutdown
if a ruleset queue is in direct mode, a segfault can occur during
rsyslog shutdown. The root cause is that a direct queue does not
have an associated worker thread pool, but the ruleset destructor
does not anticipate that and tries to destruct the worker thread
pool. It needs to do this itself, as otherwise we get a race
between rulesets on shutdown.
This was a regression from
https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/commit/3fbd901b3e6300010
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2480
- imfile bugfix: statefiles contain invalid JSON
When imfile rewrites state files, it does not truncate previous
content. If the new content is smaller than the existing one, the
existing part will not be overwritten, resulting in invalid json.
That in turn can lead to some other failures.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2662
- omfile bugfix: segfault if empty filename was given
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2417
- fix build issues when atomic operations are not present
for details, see https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/2604
- lmsig_ksils12 bugfix: build and static analyzer issues
The module had a couple of problems building as well as some potential
errors detected by clang static analyzer. These have been fixed.
Thanks to Allan Park for the patch.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2517
- impstats bugfix: segfault if bound to non-existing ruleset
segfault happens during shutdown; up until unload of impstats,
rsyslog works correctly, except that no pstats are emitted. This
can be considered to be expected, because the error message
indicates the default ruleset is used instead. This is what
now actually happens.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2645
- mmjsonparse bugfix: invalid container name was not detected
in debug builds, this will trigger an assertion. In production
builds, an rsyslog internal error is logged, but rsyslog
continues to run.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2584
- mmkubernetes bugfixes: fix lnrules, add defaults, add test
- Fix lnrules for CONTAINER_NAME
- Add pkg check for lognorm >= 2.0.3 so we can set the macro
to enable ln_loadSamplesFromString
- Add some reasonable default values for parameters, such as
kubernetesurl https://kubernetes.default.svc.cluster.local:443
- Clean up sample.conf configuration file
Thanks to Richard Megginson for the patch set.
- build system bugfix: --enable-atomic-operations did not work
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/2604
- bugfix: rsyslog aborts on startup when specific config errors are made
The following errors must be made in rsyslog.conf:
* no action present
* a call statement is used on an undefined ruleset
In this case, rsyslog emits an error message on the missing actions and
then segfaults. Depending on memory layout, it may also continue to run
but do nothing except accepting messages as no action is configured.
This patch make rsyslog properly terminate after the error message. It
is a change in behavior, but there really is no reason why a defunct
instance should be kept running.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2399
- build system: remove no longer needed --enable-libcurl configure switch
The --enable-libcurl switch was added to be able to disable libcurl
functionality inside the rsyslog core, see 46f4f43. As libcurl is no
longer used inside the core (due to introducing function modules),
--enable-libcurl needs to be removed.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2628
- QA/CI
* fixed races in some tests; root cause was that default enq timeout was too
low - we may also see in the future that other tests also need adjustment
(note that this is not a code problem but rather slow CI environments,
so increasing the timeout to get to a stable test state is the absoulutely
correct thing to do)
* enabled some additional useful compiler warnings
* new test for diskqueue hitting configured disk space limit
* new tests for omfile
* added tests for mmkubernetes
* added tests for some script functions that were missing them
* made far more test compatible with FreeBSD, so that we now have fuller
coverage there
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 8.34.0 [v8-stable] 2018-04-03
- mmkubernetes: new module
Thanks to Richard Megginson and Peter Portante for contributing the module.
- rsyslog script: introduce loadable function modules
rsyslog scripting can now also be extended via loadable modules - they
provides functions (just like loadable input, output, ... modules)
see also http://jan.gerhards.net/2018/03/loadable-rainerscript-functions.html
- imfile: large refactoring of complete module
This commit greatly refactors imfile internal workings. It changes the
handling of inotify, FEN, and polling modes. Mostly unchanged is the
processing of the way a file is read and state files are kept.
This is about a 50% rewrite of the module.
Polling, inotify, and FEN modes now use greatly unified code. Some
differences still exists and may be changed with further commits. The
internal handling of wildcards and file detection has been completely
re-written from scratch. For example, previously when multi-level
wildcards were used these were not reliably detected. The code also
now provides much of the same functionality in all modes, most importantly
wildcards are now also supported in polling mode.
The refactoring sets ground for further enhancements and smaller
refactorings. This commit provides the same feature set that imfile
had previously and all existing CI tests pass, as do some newly
created tests.
Some specific changes:
- bugfix: module parameter "sortfiles" ignored
This parameter only works in Solaris FEN mode, but is otherwise
ignored. Most importantly it is ignored under Linux.
fixes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2528
- bugfix: imfile did not pick up all files when not present
at startup
fixes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2241
fixes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2230
fixes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2354
fixes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1716
- bugfix: directories only support "*" wildcard, no others
fixes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2303
- bugfix: parameter "sortfiles" did only work in FEN mode
fixes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2528
- provides the ability to dynamically add and remove files via
multi-level wildcards
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1280
- the state file name currently has been changed to inode number
This will further be worked on in upcoming PRs
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2231
- some enhancements were also done to CI tests, most importantly
they were made more compatibile with BSD
Note that most of the mentioned bug fixes cannot be applied to older
versions, as they fix design issues which are solved by the refactoring.
Thus there are not separate commits for them.
There are probably also a number of different issues fixed, which have
not yet been full confirmed. Especially anyone having troubles with imfile
and wildcards will benefit from the refactoring.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2359
- omelasticsearch: add support for CA cert, client cert auth
This allows omelasticsearch to perform client cert based authentication
to Elasticsearch.
adds parameters: tls.cacert, tls.mycert, tls.myprivkey
Thanks to Richard Megginson for the patch.
- omfile-hardening: new contributed module for "omfile hardened operations"
This extends omfile with features considered useful for hardening. Comes
at the expense of performance loss and changed semantics.
Thanks to Mikko Kortalainen for contributing this work.
- stream/bugfix: memory leak on stream open if filename as already generated
this can happen if imfile reads a state file. On each open, memory for the
file name can be lost.
We detected this while working on imfile refactoring, so there is no related
bug report. No specific test has been crafted, as the refactored imfile
tests catch it (as soon as they are merged).
- bugfix/omkafka: did not build on platforms without atomic operations
Thanks to github user bruce87en for the patch
- bugfix/core/ratelimiting: SystemLogRateLimitBurst was limited to 65535
rsyslog uses unsigned short for configuration setting SystemLogRateLimitBurst.
Being just 16 bits, unsigned short cannot hold values bigger than 65535. in a
practical setting rsyslog misbehaved with SystemLogRateLimitBurst being bigger
than 65535.
Thanks to github user KaleviKolttonen for the patch.
- bugfix imfile: memory leak in readMode 0
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2421
- bugfix omfile: some error messages had parameters in wrong order
which made the message look strange, but still readable
Thanks to Hans Rakers for the patch.
- bugfix omprog: file handle leak
There was a fd leak in the feedback feature added in v8.31.0 (github PR #1753).
The leak occurred when omprog was used with the confirmMessages=on setting
and no output setting. One fd was leaked every time the external program was
started.
Thanks to Joan Sala for the patch.
- bugfix imuxsock: data alignment problems
gcc did rightly complain that the cred and ts pointers would cause
alignment problems, so they were converted to structs and the necessary
data was memcpy()'ed to them.
the aux[] buffer was also potentially misaligned, so making a union
out of it and struct cmsghdr insured it was properly aligned.
The problems were especially visible on alpha and ia64 machines.
Thanks to Jason Duerstock for the fix.
- bugfix testbench: some test were accidently not executed
Thanks to Kasumi Hanazuki for the patch.
- bugfix tcp subsystem: keepalive settings mixed up
TCPKeepAliveIntvl and TPCKeepAliveTime were switched. This is now correct and
thus causes a CHANGE OF BeHAVIOR of these settings. We applied this change only
after careful consideration of the effect. The contributor Alexandre Pierret
explained the situation as such:
"From my side, I work with thousands of servers centralizing logs to rsyslog
servers in tcp. All of them are running RHEL 6 and 7. The default rsyslog settings
in RHEL is TCPKeepAlive off. Since there are thousands of connections on the
rsyslog servers, I had to turn the TCPKeepAlive on to setup an agressive policy
regarding ghost connections (following firewall tcp-timeout issue). Basically,
I set up: intvl=10 - probe=5 - time=2 If intvl and time are switched, it won't
break anything. It will just send 5 more empty tcp packets for 10 seconds (5
probe x 2 seconds), which is painless (any professional grade 100€ router can
send more than 1.000.000 PPS). For 3000 servers, it means 3000 pps for 5
seconds (3000 servers x 2 back-and-forth / 2 seconds). Let's take another worst
example: intvl=3600 - probe=5 - time=1. It means one keepalive every hour and
a 5 retry every 1s after a network issue. If the time and intvl values are
switched, it will generate 1 keepalive every seconds, It's a LOT more, but
after 5 probe or packet, it will stop. To summarize, I think it won't
break anything:
* Keepalive is off by default is many linux distribution
* When we enable it, it's to set up an agressive policy. And setting up a
10-5-1, 60-5-2, 2-5-60 or 1-20-1 policy is almost the same.
Bonus: For people setting up their rsyslog from the documentation, it will
now work as expected."
This was convincing, and we actually think that the fast majority of users set
up keepalive based on the doc and did never verify it actually worked as
excpected. So we think that in all those cases, rsyslog will finally work as
intended. So we consider it justified to "change the behavior" here.
full discussion in PR: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/2367
Thanks to Alexandre Pierret for analyzing the situation and providing the
patch.
- fix some cosmetic issues found by lgtm.com static code analyzer
e.g. header file guard not correctly set - if you really are interested in
details, check git log
- CI
* add build test without atomic operations - now catches missing mutex macros
* add lgtm.com static analyzer (automatically called via GitHub PR)
* improved stability of global-umask.sh test, which unnecessarily used
wildcards for test output file checking.
Thanks to Kasumi Hanazuki for the patch.
* added some test for omprog with transactional interface
Thanks to Joan Sala for the new tests.
* fixed some omjournal tests which did not properly check result
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 8.33.1 [v8-stable] 2018-03-06
- 8.33.0 tarball release was actually pre-8.33.0
... and so did not contain all features. This alone made a re-release
necessary, which is what now happens with 8.33.1.
Note: the git 8.33.0 label was correctly applied, "just" the tarball
was wrong.
- devcontainer: use some more sensible defaults
and add ability to specify generic docker run options
this makes integration into CI (and other scripting) easier
- fix problems with make dist
make dist did not package everything that was needed for CI, thus
resulting in make check failures if build from tarball.
Thanks to Thomas D. (whissi), and Michael Biebl for alerting us on the
problem, providing advise and some of the patches. We also added addt'l
patches ourselves. The problem occured as the CI check for tarball
completeness was more or less disabled a couple of weeks ago, which
unfortunately went unnoticed. We have also applied some more safeguards
to detect such problems in the future.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 8.33.0 [v8-stable] 2018-02-20
- auto-detect if running inside a container (as pid 1)
adjust defaults in this case to be more container-friendly
- config: add include() script object
This permits to include files (like legacy $IncludeConfig) via a
script object. Needless to say, the script object offers more
features:
- include files can now be
- required, with rsyslog aborting when not present
- required, with rsyslog emitting an error message but otherwise
continuing when not present
- optional, which means non-present include files will be
skipped without notice
This is controlled by the "mode" parameter.
- text can be included form e.g. an environment variable
--> ex: include(text=`echo $ENVVAR`)
This finally really obsoletes $IncludeConfig.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2151
- template: add option to generate json "container"
This enables easy JSON generation via template.
This commit also corrects an issue with the constant "jsonf"
format. That was recently added, and the implementation problem
only became visible when used inside a larger json object. No
officially released code is affected, thought - so it rellay
is just a side-note.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2347
- core/template: add format jsonf to constant template entries
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2348
- config: add ability to disable config parameter ("config.enabled")
For auto-generated configs, it is useful to have the ability to disable some
config constructs even though they may be specified inside the config. This
can now be done via the ```config.enabled``` parameter, applicable to all
script objects. If set to ```on``` or not specified, the construct will be
used, if set to any other value, it will be ignored. This can be used
together with the backtick functionality to configure enable and disable
from either a file or environment variable.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2431
- script: permit to use environment variables during configuration
new constant string type "backticks", inspired by sh
(sample: `echo $VARNAME`).
- new global config parameter "shutdown.enable.ctlc"
permits to shutdown rsyslog via ctl-c; useful e.g. in containers
- config optimizer: detect totally empty "if" statements and optimize
them out
- template: constant entry can now also be formatted as json field
This enhancements permits to craft clean templates that generate JSON,
e.g. for ElasticSearch consumption (or any other REST API)
- omstdout: support for new-style configuration parameters added
- core: set TZ on startup if not already set
In theory, TZ should be set by the OS. Unfortuantely, this seems
to be not the case any longer on many Linux distros. We now check
it and set it appropriate if not already given.
Thanks to github user JPvRiel for providing an excellent explanation
of the reasoning for this and how to work around it.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2054
- imjournal bugfix: file handle leak during journal rotation
Thanks to Peter Portante for the patch
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/2437
- lmsig_ksils12 bugfix: dirOwner and dirGroup config was not respected
- script bugfix: replace() function worked incorrectly in some cases
If the end of the message was similar to the replacement string, parts
of the string could (not always) be missing.
Thanks to Yaroslav Bo for the patch.
- build system bugfix: --disable-libcurl did not work
Thanks to Dan Molik, Thomas D. (whissi), and Michael Biebl for the patches.
- fixed build issues on Alpine Linux
- core bugfix: misadressing in external command parser
This parser is used whenever a module (e.g. omprog) needs to process
command lines. If command parameters were given, memory misadressing
occured. This could lead to a segfault.
This is a regression in 8.32.0.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2408
- core bugfix: small memory leak in external command parser
This parser is used whenever a module (e.g. omprog) needs to process
command lines. On each action definitions for actions that use the
parser a small amount of memory was leakd. It is an uncritical leak
as it only occurs during config parsing. So it leaks a couple of
KiB during startup but does not grow during actual message processing.
This is a regression in 8.32.0.
- core bugfix: string not properly terminated when RFC5424 MSGID is used
This could lead to misadressing when the jsonmesg property was used.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2396
- bugfix: strndup() compatibility layer func copies too much
The function did not obey the upper limit, effectively becoming
a strdup(). This was only noticed when the compatibility layer
was required, most importantly on Solaris 10.
- CI system
- we now use well-defined containers for parts of the CI runs
- now also build test under Alpine Linux
- test added for omprog feedback feature
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Version 8.32.0 [v8-stable] 2018-01-09
- NEW BUILD REQUIREMENTs:
* libfastjson 0.99.8 is now required; older versions lead to bugs in rsyslog
* libczmq >= 3.0.2 is now required for omczmq
This was actually required for quite some while, but not properly checked
during configure run. If the lib was older, build failed. Now configure
detects this and emits the appropiate error message.
* libcurl is now needed for rsyslog core
due to new script function http_request(). This can be turned off by the
new configure option --disable-libcurl. If so, http_request() is not
available.
- rsyslogd: add capability to specify that no pid file shall be written
Command line option -iNONE provides this capability. This utilizes the
pre-existing -i option, but uses the special name "NONE" to turn of the
pid file check feature. Turning off is useful for systems where this no
longer is needed (e.g. systemd based).
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2143
- ompgsql: considerable enhancements
The PostgreSQL output module was woefully out-of-date the following
list is changes made to update the module to current Rsyslog standards.
* allow for v6 configuration syntax
* configurable ports
* support transactional interface
* push db connection into workers (libpq is threadsafe)
* enable module testing on travis
* ensure configuration syntax backwards compatibility
* formatting around postgres core templating
* use new test conventions
* add new configuration syntax test
* add valgrind tests for new and old syntax
* add threading tests
* add action queue long running tests
* add action queue valgrind test
Thanks to Dan Molik for contributing this great enhancement!
- build system: removed --enable-rtinst configure option
This was a historic debugging option which has been superseeded by
newer tools like valgrind, helgrind, ASAN, TSAN, etc...
- pmrfc3164: support for headerless messages
pmrfc3164 now detects if the first non-SP, non-HT character is either
'{' or '[' and if so assume that no header (TAG, HOSTNAME, DATE) is
given. If so, it uses defaults for these values. The full message is
used as the MSG part in that case. Note that an initial PRI may still
be specified.
This follows the trend to send JSON messages via syslog without any
header. We use default header values in this case.
This right now is a bit experimental; we may roll it back if
problems show up in practice.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2030
- omhiredis: add option to use RPUSH instead of LPUSH
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1625
- mmexternal improvements
* better error reporting if to-be-executed script cannot be executed
* some general cleanup
* better redirection of stdin/out/err for the executed script
* bugfix: argv[0] of the script was missing if command line parameters
were not specified
- omprog: refactored, code shared with mmexternal moved to common object
- logctl tool: refactor to support newer rsyslog standards
* Made the logctl usertool ISO C90 compliant.
* Made the logctl usertool use a homogeneous coding style.
Thanks to Hugo Soszynski for contributing this work (as well as
suggesting some workarounds related to libmongoc/libbson).
- imfile: added support for Solaris File Event notification (FEN)
also improves performance under Solaris, with FEN imfile provides
features equivalent to inotify mode
- core/action: new parameter "action.errorfile"
permits to write failed messages to an "error file" so that they
can be reviewed and potentially be reprocessed
- imfile: added new module parameter "sortFiles"
This permits to process newly created files in sorted order.
- imuxsock: improved status reporting: socket name received from systemd
Providing an indication of what we got from systemd facilitates problem
analysis.
- build system: added new testbench configure switches
now --enable-testbench1 and --enable-testbench2 exists which permit
to enable/disable parts of the testbench. By default, both are on
when --enable-testbench is given. For full testbench coverage, both
options must be given. These options are necessary because under
Travis we hit the max runtime for tests and needed to split tests
over multiple incarnations.
- mmpstrucdata: new parameter "sd_name.lowercase"
to permit preserving case for structured data identifiers
Special thanks to github user alanrobson for the intial commit that
preseves case (on which we based other work).
- omfile: add module-global option "dynafile.donotsuspend"
this permits to enable SUSPENDing dynafile actions. Traditionally,
SUSPEND mode was never entered for dynafiles as it would have blocked
overall processing flow. Default is not to suspend (and thus block).
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2236
- testbench: add a capability to turn off libfaketime tests via configure
Unfortunately, libfaketime becomes more and more problematic in newer
versions and causes aborts on some platforms. This provides the ability
to turn it off via --disable-libfaketime.
In the longer term, we should consider writing our own replacement.
- testbench: name valgrind tests consistently
all valgrind tests now end in -vg.sh
- RainerScript: add function parse_json()
- RainerScript: add function substring()
- RainerScript: add function http_request()
- RainerScript: add function previous_is_suspended()
This function returns a boolean indicating if the previous action is
suspended (0 - no, 1 - yes). This is useful if arbitrary processing
(other than calling actions) should be made depending on that state.
A prime example for this is probably calling a ruleset.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1939
- Patches from BSD projects have been imported
... as far as they still apply. Some patches that patched BSD-specific
code were broadened to be more generic.
- script bugfix: invalid function names were silently ignored
no error message was produced
thanks to Matt Ezell for providing the patch.
- rainerscript: add int2hex() function
- rainerscript: add is_time() function
Thanks to Stephen Workman for implementing this.
- RainerScript: add function script_error() and error-reporting support
This permits script functions that could fail to report errors back, so
that the user can handle them if desired. We use an errno-style of
interface. That means script_error() needs to be called after functions
that supports it. It will return either 0 (all OK) or something else
(an error condition).
The commit also modifies the parse_time() function to use the new
interface. First of all, this is useful for users, and secondly we
needed a capability to craft a testbench test.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1978
- testbench: fixed build problem of testbench tools under Alpine Linux
- added --enable-libsystemd configure option to enforce use of libsystemd
so we can fail the build on platforms where this is required
- core/glbl: remove long-unused option $optimizeforuniprocessor
This was still available, but had no effect (for ~10 years or so). The
plumbing is now removed. If someone tries to use the option, an
error message is generated.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2280
- core/queue: emit better status messages at rsyslog shutdown
this helps to diagnose issue - unfortunately we need more work to ensure
that the messages always make it to the user. This is a start and
hopefully useful at least for the testbench, possibly more.
- fixed a couple of build issues with gcc-7 (in less frequently used modules)
- fixed a couple of build issues on the arm platform (actually raspbian)
- impstats: fix invalid counter definitions for getrusage() reporting
some of the counters were defined as int (32 bit) vs. intctr_t (64 bit).
On some platforms "long" seems to be 64bit, and getrusage() provides
what we store as int via long. So this caused truncation and/or overflow.
This had undefined effects. Most often, everything worked fine
for values smaller than 2^31 but sometimes we got negative values.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1517
- imudp bugfix: potential segfault in ratelimiting
The rate-limiter inside imudp was not set to be thread safe, but was
used across multiple threads. This worked in default configuration,
but failed when RepeatedMsgReduction was set to "on".
Note that it in general is a bug to use a rate-limiter in
non-threadsafe mode across multiple threads. This also causes invalid
rate limiting counts in the default case.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/441
fixes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2132
- imptcp bugfix: access to free'ed memory
When notifyconnectionclose was on, a string buffer was accessed immediately
after it was freed (as part of the connection close operation).
Detected by LLVM ASAN.
- mmanon bugfix: fix wrong ipv6 embedded recognition
mmanon recognized IPv6 with embedded IPv4 that have too few (16 bit) fields.
example: 13:abd:45:0.0.0.0
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2357
- imfile bugfix: not detecting files in directory when wildcards are used.
When directories and files are created at the same time,
imfile may missed subdirs or file if the machine is on high load.
The handling has been enhanced to scan newly created directories ALWAYS for
matching files.
fixes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2271
However there still exist problems with multilevel directory configurations.
Details are discussed in https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2354
Fixes for the remaining issues are expected for 8.33.0.
- script bugfix: improper string-to-number conversion for negative numbers
- core/action bugfix: 100% CPU utilization on suspension of output module
Triggering condition:
* output module using the legacy transaction interface
(e.g. omelasticsearch, omlibdbi)
* output module needs to suspend itself
In these cases, rsyslog enters a busy loop trying to resolve the
suspend condition. The bug is rooted in rsyslog core action code.
This patch fixes it by inserting a 1-second sleep during calls
to the resume handler.
Note: we cannot sleep exactly as long as tryResume needs. This
would require larger refactoring, which probably is not worth for
the legacy interface. The current solution is almost as good, as
the one second sleep has very little overhead on a real system.
Thus we have choosen that approach.
This patch now also ensures that failed messages are properly
handled and do not cause eternal hang.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2113
- core/variables bugfix: bare $! cannot be used in set statement
fixes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/326
- core bugfix: auto commit of actions improperly handled
The internal state variable bHadAutoCommit was handled in thread-unsafe way
and most probably caused (hard to see) issues when action instances were
run on multiple worker threads. It looks like the state variable was
forgotten to move over to worker state when action workers were introduced.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2046
- core bugfix: filename length limitation of 199 bytes
file names (including path names) longer than 199 bytes could not be
handled at many places. This has now been uplifted to 4KiB after careful
review for the largest size supported among all relevant platforms.
- core bugfix: undefined behavior due to integer overflow
when searching strings, we may have an (unsigned) interger overflow
which can lead to misadressing.
Detected by clang ubsan.
- core bugfix: race on LocalHostIP property during startup
The way the default was set could lead to a race if e.g. two internal
messages were emitted at startup when the property was not yet set. This
has been seen to happen in practice. It had no bad effect except a very
small stationary memory leak, but made using thread analyzers unreliable
(as it was rightfully detected as a problem).
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2012
- bugfix: potential segfault on startup
timezone info table was "sorted" even though it may be NULL. There is
no practical case known where this lead to an actual abort, but in
theory it would be possible. If so, it would happen immediately on
startup.
Detected by clang ubsan.
- omhiredis bugfix: rsyslog segfault on startup if no template is specified
- omprog bugfix: argv[0] not set when using binary without arguments
When using the omprog plugin with a binary without arguments, argv[0] (the
name of the binary) is not set, causing binaries that depend on this value
being set to crash or misbehave.
This patch also mildly refactors omprog argv[] creations, albeit some more
refactoring would be useful.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1858
- core: refactoring of rsyslog's cstr "class"
Function cstrGetSzStrNoNULL shall modified the string buffer on each call,
albeit it is considered a "read-only" function. It currently adds a '\0'
at the end. This is bad, especially when multiple threads access the same
string. As always the same data is written, it was not causing real issues
(except unnecessary cache writes), but it polluted the thread debugger and
as such prevent more elaborate automatted tests.
- parent directory creation function refactored
This should not cause any change of behavior, but is worth noting in case
we see a regression not caught by the CI system.
- mmsnmptrapd bugfix: potential misadressing
This only occured in situations when the system was totally out of memory.
- imkafka: fix potential small ressource leak
If rdkafka handle cannot fully populated, cleanup is added. Previously, we
could leak a handle if e.g. no brokers were avaiable. Note that this was
a cosmetic leak, as proper processing is not possible in any case and the
leak is once per listener, so not growing. But we now also ensure that
proper error reporting and handling is done in any case. Previously, we
may have some misleading error messages if the defunct kafka handle was
used.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2084
- imkafka bugfix: do not emit error message on regular state
This was misunderstood as an error state and could spam the system
log considerably. Regression from 8.31.0.
- omkafka: expose operational status to user where useful
omkafka emits many useful operational status messages only to the debug
log. After careful review, we have exposed many of these as user error
and warning message (ex: librdkafka queue full, so user knows why we
suspend the plugin temporarily). This may have made the module too
chatty. If so, one can always filter out messages via configuration. And
if we really went overboard, we can undo those parts with the next
release. So it's better to give a bit more than less, as this definitely
eases troubleshooting for users.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/2334
- omkafka bugfix: potential message duplication
If a message that already failed in librdkafka was resubmitted and that
resubmit also failed, it got duplicated.
- omkafka: fix multithreading
omkafka has several issue if multiple worker instances are used. This commit
actually make the module use a single worker thread at max. Reasoning:
Librdkafka creates background threads itself. So omkafka basically needs to move
memory buffers over to librdkafka, which then does the heavy hauling. As such, we
think that it is best to run max one wrkr instance of omkafka -- otherwise we just
get additional locking (contention) overhead without any real gain. As such,
we use a global mutex for doAction which ensures only one worker can be active
at any given time. That mutex is also used to guard utility functions (like
tryResume) which may also be accessed by multiple workers in parallel.
Note: shall this method be changed, the kafka connection/suspension handling needs
to be refactored. The current code assumes that all workers share state information
including librdkafka handles.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2313
- omkafka bugfix: potential misadressing
The failed message list is improperly cleaned. This is a regression
from recent commit 4eae19e089b5a83da679fe29398c6b2c10003793, which
was introduced in 8.31.0.
This problem is more likely to happen under heavy load or bad
connectivity, when the local librdkafka queue overruns or message
delivery times out.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2184
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2067
- omkafka bugfix: build fails with older versions of librdkafka
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2168
- omgssapi bugfix: fix compiler warnings with gcc-7
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2097
- dnscache bugfix: entries were cached based on IP AND port number
That hash key which is used to find out already cached dns entry gets
incorrectly computed from the whole sockaddr_storage
(sockaddr_in/sockaddr_in6) structure including a sin_port (which doesn't
have a static value) instead of only an address, thus creating redundant
dns cache entries/consuming more space. This lead to potentially high memory
usage and ineffectiveness of the case. It could be considered a memory leak.
Thanks to Martin Osvald for the patch.
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/2160
- omkafka bugfix: fixed memory leak
a memory leak occurred when librdkafka communicated error/status information
to omkafka. this seems to happen relatively frequently, so this leak
could be pretty problematic.
- mmdblookup bugfix: replace thread-unsafe strtok() by thread-safe counterpart
Many thanks to Will Storey (github user @horgh) for mentioning this and
his phantastic help in debugging this rsyslog problem!
- pmnormalize bugfix: remove unsave "strcat" implementation
- rainerscript bugfix: ltrim() and rtrim function misadressing
This could lead to a segfault and was triggerred by certain input data
schemes. For example, a ltrim(" a") could lead to the fault.
- imklog bugfix: local host IP was hardcoded to 127.0.0.1
This is now taken from the global localHostIP setting, which is used
consistent accross all modules.
Also, the removed (2012?) directive $klogLocalIPIF has been added
again but directly marked as removed. That way, an informative error
message is generated if someone tries to use it.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2276
- cleanup: remove obsolete pre-KSI GuardTime signature interface
this is no longer functional starting Jan 2018 as it reached end of life
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2128
- cleanup: obsolete defintion SOL_TCP replaced by newer IPPROTO_TCP
this should not have any effect at all except better portability, but is
worth mentioning in the ChangeLog nevertheless.
- lookup tables: fixed undefined behavior detected by UBSan
- CI testing
- ARM (via Raspberry PI) added to CI system
- Debian 9 added to CI system
- omgssapi and usertools components are now also tested in Travis
- test coverage on BSD has been enhanced
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 8.31.0 [v8-stable] 2017-11-28
- NEW BUILD DEPENDENCY: ommongodb now requires libmongo-c
instead of deprecated libmongo-client.
- remove systemd embedded code, use libsystemd instead
Since the early days rsyslog used the orginal systemd embedded
interface code. This version now uses libsystemd where available.
If we do not find libsystemd, we assume the system does not use
systemd, which is a safe assumption nowadays. This ensures we use the
fresh interface code and also removes bloat from our project.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1933
- mmanon: add support for IPv6 adresses with embedded IPv4 address
While this format is uncommon, it may still be present in logs and as
such should be supported. It is configurable via individual settings,
though. Especially the number of bits to anonymize may be desired to
be different than in pure IPv6.
- ommongodb: big refactoring, more or less a feature-enhanced rewrite
New features are :
* Handle TLS connexion to mongodb
* Handle MongoDB Replicasets
* Added the 'ssl_ca' and 'ssl_cert' directives to configure tls connexion
* Added 'uristr' directive to configure the connection uri in the form
of 'mongodb://...'
Now uses the official mongo-c-driver library instead of the deprecated
mongo-client library
Special thanks to Hugo Soszynski and Jérémie Jourdin for there hard work
to make this a reality!
See also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/1917
- rainerscript: add parse_time() function
Thanks to Stephen Workman for implementing this.
- omelasticsearch: add LF to every elastic response for error file
error file content was written without LF after each message, making
it hard to work with and monitor.
Thanks to Yaroslav Bo for the patch.
- omelasticsearch: add pipeline support
supports static and dynamic ElasticSearch pipeline parameter.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1411
Thanks to github users scibi and WaeCo for the implementation.
- lmsig_ksi_ls12: support asynchronous mode of libksi
- omprog: added error handling and transaction support for external plugins
This permits much better integration of external output modules.
Special thanks to Joan Sala for providing this work!
- imzmq3/omzmq3: marked as deprecated, modules will be remove in v8.41
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2100
- imzmq3/omzmq3: fixed build issues with gcc-7
- core: emit error message on abnormal input thread termination
This indicates a serious issue of which the user should be notified.
Was not done so far and caused grief when troubleshooting issues.
- core: refactored locking for json variable access
refactored the method so that it consistent in all functions and easier
to follow. Most importantly, now an as simple as possible locking paradigm
of lock ... unlock within the function. Hopefully easier to understand
both for humans and static code analyzers.
- core: refactored creation of UDP sockets
was very old, hard to follow code; streamlined that a bit
- core/dnscache: refactor locking
keep a simple lock ... unlock scheme within the function. That is
easier to follow for both humans as well as static analyzers.
Also removes Coverity scan CID 185419
- rainerscript: use crypto-grade random number generator for random() function
We now use /dev/urandom if available. If not, we fall back to the weak PRNG.
- imkafka: improve error reporting and cleanup refactoring
- imkafka bugfix: segfault if "broker" parameter is not specified
Now emits warning message instead and uses hardcoded default
(which usually matches where the kafka broker can be found).
fixes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2085
- omkafka: improve error reporting
- omkafka: slight speedup do to refactoring of LIST class
double-linked list was used for temporarily undeliverable message tracking
where singly-linked list was sufficient. Changed that.
- TCP syslog: support SNI when connecting as a client
This is done if a hostname is configured and turned off if an IP is used.
Thanks to Art O Cathain for the patch.
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/1393
- msg variable bugfix: potential segfault on variable access
A segfault is likely to happen if during processing a variable with
more than one path component is accessed (e.g. $!path!var) and NO
variables oft hat kind (local, message, global) are defined at all.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1920
- ratelimiting bugfix: data race in Linux-like ratelimiter
access to the Linux-like ratelimiter was not properly synchronized, and
the system rate-limiter was not using it in any case.
This could lead to the rate-limit settings not being properly
respected, but no "hard error".
- core/template bugfix: potential NULL pointer access at config load
could happen if the config was loaded and the parameters could not properly
be processed. If so, this occured only during the startup phase.
Detected by Coverity scan, CID 185318
- core/json var subsystem bugfix: segfault in MsgSetPropsViaJSON
Invalid libfastjson API use lead to double-free. This was most importantly
triggerred by mmexternal (but could potentially be triggered by other
uses as well)
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1822
- core/wrkr threads bugfix: race condition
During e.g. shutdown it could happen that a worker thread was started
and immediately be requested to terminate. In such situations there was
a race the prevented proper initialization. This could lead to follow-on
problems.
We believe (but could not proof) that this also could lead to a hang of
the termination process. Thus we claim to close an issue tracker down
here below, but are not 100% certain it really closes it (we hope for
user feedback on this). In any case, the thread debuger showed invalid
operations and this has been fixed, so it is useful in any case.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1959
- core/wtp: potential hang during shutdown
when the wtp worker is cancelled in the final stage of shutting down
while the mutex is locked and there is one worker left, the system
will hang. The reason is that the cancelled thread could not free the
mutex that the other needs in order to shut down orderly.
Deteced with clang thread sanitizer.
- omfwd bugfix: generate error message on connection failure
- imtcp bugfix: "streamdriver.mode" parameter could not be set to 0
- imjournal bugfix: module was defunctional
The open function was broken by commit 92ac801, resulting in
no data being ever read from the journal.
patch bases on the idea of Radovan Sroka given here:
https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1895#issuecomment-339017357
but follows the current imjournal-paradigm of having the journal
handle inside a global variable.
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1895
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1897
- imjournal: refactor error handling, fix error messages
imjournal did not try to recover from errors and used the error state
returned by journal functions incorrectly, resulting in misleading
error messages. Fixed this and also increased the number of error
messages so that it now is easier to diagnose problems with this module.
Also a little bit of internal brush-up.
-mmdblookup bugfix: fix potential segfault due to threading issues
libmaxminddb seems to have issues when running under multiple threads. As
a first measure, we prevent mmdblookup now from running on more than one
thread concurrently.
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1885#issuecomment-344882616
- omelasticsearch bugfix: operational error messages not passed to user
This lead to sometimes hard to diagnose problem. Note that for obvious
raesons the amont of messages from omelasticsearch has increased; this
is not a sign of a problem in itself -- but it may reveal problems that
existed before and went unnoticed. Also note that too-verbose messages
can be filtered out via regular rsyslog methods (e.g. message discarding
based on content).
- omkafka bugfixes
* statistics counter maxoutqsize could not be reset
Thanks to github user flisky for the patch.
* potential hang condition
omkafka did not release a mutex under some error conditions (most
notably out of memory on specific alloc calls). This lead to a hang
during actively processing messages or during shutdown (at latest).
This could happen only if dynamic topics were configured.
Detected by Coverity Scan, CID 185781 (originally 185721, detected
as a different issue by Coverity after code refactoring done in regard
to 185721 -- then the problem became more obvious).
* file handle leak, which could occur when local buffering
of messages was needed
* invalid load of failedmsg file on startup if disabled
error "rsyslogd: omkafka: could not load failed messages from "
"file (null) error -2027 - failed messages will not be resend."
occurs because, depite `keepFailedMessages="off"` as a default,
omkafka still tries to check for and load a `(none)` file which
triggers an IO error of sorts according to the 2027 link above.
Obviously, it probably shouldn't try load the file if
`keepFailedMessages` is not enabled.
Thanks to github user JPvRiel for a very good error report and
analysis.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1765
* various config parameters did not work
These were not even recognized when used and lead to a config startup
error message:
~ closeTimeout
~ reopenOnHup
~ resubmitOnFailure
~ keepFailedMessages
~ failedMsgFile
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2052
* considerable memory leak
Whenever a message could (temporarily) not be delivered to kafka,
a non-trivial amount of memory was leaked. This could sum up to
quite a big memory leak.
fixes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1991
* some small memory leaks fixed
most of them cosmetic or a few bytes statically (not growing as
omkafka was used) -- thus we do not mention each one explicitely.
For more details, see git commit log or this pull request:
https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/2051
- kafka bugfix: problem on invalid kafka configuration values
omkafka ended up in an endless loop and high cpu.
imkafka tried to subscribe to a not connected kafka server.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1806
- [io]mgssapi: fix build problems (regression from 8.30.0)
- [io]czmq: fix build problems on some platforms (namely gcc 7, clang 5)
- tcpsrv bugfix: potential hang during shutdown
- queue bugfix: potential hang during shutdown
- queue bugfix: NULL pointer dereference during config processing
If the queue parameters were incorrectly given, a NULL pointer derefernce
could happen during config parsing. Once post that stage, no problem could
occur.
Detected by Coverity scan, CID 185339
- imczmq bugfix: segfault
happened in a call to
371: zcert_destroy(&serverCert) called from rcvData().
Thanks to ~achiketa Prachanda for the patch.
- imfile: some small performance enhancements
Thanks to Peter Portante for the patch
- omfile: hande file open error via SUSPEND mode
For a while, an open file error lead to suspension as the error was
not detected by the rule engine. This has changed with fixes
in 8.30.0. I asked users what they prefer (and expect) and
everyone meant it should still be handled via suspension. See
github tracker below for more details.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1832
- omfile bugfix: race during directory creation can lead to loop
There was a race where two threads were competing for directory creation
which could lead to none succeeding and a flood of error message like this
"error during config processing: omfile: creating parent directories for
file". This has been solved.
Thanks to Niko Kortström for the patch.
- imudp: improve error reporting
When udp listener cannot be created, an error message containing
the ip-address and port is put out.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1899
- omrelp bugfix: incorrect error handling
if librelp with TLS but without Authentication was included, librelp
did not emit the correct error message due to invalid error code
check. It also did not err-out but instead suspended itself.
Detected by Coverity scan, CID 185362
- [io]mrelp bugfix: segfault on startup if configured cert not readable
When the certificate file specified in the omrelp/imrelp configuration
can't be accessed, e.g. because it doesn't exist or you don't have
permission to do so, a Segmentation Fault will appear when you start
Rsyslog. This commit fixes that problem.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1869
- mmanon fix: make build under gcc 7
Thanks to William Dauchy for the patch
- mmpstrucdata bugfix: formatting error of ']' char
This was invalidly formatted as '"'. Thanks to github user
wu3396 for the error report including the patch idea.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1826
- mmexternalb bugfix: memory leak
- core/stats bugfix: memory leak if sender stats or tracking are enabled
- core bugfix: potential segfault during startup
A NULL pointer could be accessed if there was a problem with the
timezone parameters. Affects only startup, once started, no problem
existed.
Detected by Coverty scan; CID 185414
- core bugfix: potential race in variable handling
Root of variable tree is accessed prior to locking access to it.
This introduces a race that may result in various kinds of
misadressing.
Found while reviewing code, no bug report exists.
- core bugfix: potential segfault when shutting down rsyslog
when rulesets are nested a segfault can occur when shutting down
rsyslog. the reason is that rule sets are destructed in load order,
which means a "later" ruleset may still be active when an "earlier"
one was already destructed. In these cases, a "call" can invalidly
call into the earlier ruleset, which is destructed and so leads to
invalid memory access. If a segfault actually happens depends on the
OS, but it is highly probable.
The cure is to split the queue shutdown sequence. In a first step,
all worker threads are terminated and the queue set to enqOnly.
While some are terminated, it is still possible that the others
enqueue messages into the queue (which are then just placed into the
queue, not processed). After this happens, a call can no longer
be issued (as there are no more workers). So then we can destruct
the rulesets in any order.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1122
- core/action bugfix: potential misadressing when processing hard errors
For batches that did fail in an output module, the rsyslog core
tries to find offending messages that generate hard (non-recoverable)
errors. During this process, the action templates for each message
are copied into a temporary buffer. That copy was invalidly sized,
actually copying only the first template string. As such, outputs
that requested more template strings AND had erros in batch submission
received uninitialized pointers. This could lead to all sorts of
problems.
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1885
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1906
- template object bugfix: NULL pointer access on invalid parameters
could happen only during startup
Detected by Coverity scan, CID 185376
- omjournal bugfix: NULL pointer access on invalid parameters
could happen only during startup
- omelasticsearch bugfix: configured credentials not used during health check
Authentication credentials were not applied during health check,
permission to use unsigned CERTS was not applied to regular data post.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1949
- omelasticsearch bugfix: abort on unavailable ES server
Depending on the state of unavailability (libcurl return code),
omelasticsearch tries to process a NULL return message, what
leads to a segfault.
This fixes the problem and introduces better error handling and
better error messages.
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1885
- omelasticsearch: fix memory leak and potential misadressing
Commit 96b5fce introduced regressions, leading to potential misadressing
and a very probable memory leak. This commit fixes the issues and
hardens the module to better detect some error cases in the
future.
It also adds valgrind-based testbench tests which ensure that no
pointer errors exist. If they had been in place, the regressions
would never have been undetected.
Note that commit 96b5fce was introduced in 8.23.0 on Nov, 15th 2016.
Many thanks to Yaroslav Bo for alerting me on the root problem and
providing a very good analysis and guidance.
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1906
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1964
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1962
- omelasticsearch bugfix: output from libcurl to stdout
omelasticsearch made libcurl output messages to stdout. This
commit fixes that. It also automatically enables libcurl verbose
mode during debug runs - it needs to be seen if this is smart or
not (previously, code needed to be commented in).
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1909
- iczmq bugfix: potential memory leak
- imptcp bugfix: potential misadressing
When during a connection request the remote peer could not be
identified, imptcp could misadress memory if it is configured
to emit messages on connection open.
Detected by clang 5.0 static analyzer.
- imptcp: potential buffer overflow
if the local hostname or IP is larger than NI_MAXHOST-1, an internal
buffer is overflowed. This is irrespective of any input data.
Detected by Coverity scan, CID 185390
- core/nsd_gtls: fix potential unitialized data access
could occur during certificate check
found by clang 5.0 static analyzer
- stats bugfix: potential program hang
due to missing unlock. This could only occur if pstats was set to
CEE-format logging (very uncommon) AND if the system runs out of
memory (in which case other things go pretty bad as well).
found by Coverty scan
- omfwd bugfix: memory leak if network namespaces are used
very seldom used feature, occurs only during error case
found by Coverty scan.
- core: potential misadressing when accessing JSON properties
When a JSON property is accessed in template processing, memory may
have been misadressed or a double-free may occur while obtaining the
propety.
This was detected by a Coverty scan.
- gcry crypto provider bugfixes: potential misadressing and memory leak
If the config parameters were invalid, a misadressing could occur. If so,
this happens only during startup.
Also, a memory leak existed when the crypto provider errored out. This could
build up if it were used in frequently-changing dynafiles. This was
detected by Coverity scan, CID 185360.
- core/file stream object bugfix: memory leak
If a multiline read errored out, a line buffer could be leaked.
Detected by Coverity scan, CID 185328
- imdiag bugfix: double mutex unlock when working with stats
Note: while this could potentially lead to a program hang, it affected
only testbench execution as imdiag is a testbench-only tool.
Detected by Coverity scan, CID 185348 and 185350
- fixed several minor and cosmetic issues found by Coverty scan
includding false positives. For details see "$ git log". All noteworthy
issues are seperately mentioned in this ChangeLog. The ones not mentioned
are for example problems that can only occur during out of memory
conditions, under which it is extremely likely tha the rsyslog process
will be killed in any case
- testbench:
* added compile-check for [io]mgssapi, mmcount
* harden tests against hanging previous instances
* re-enable RELP tests on Solaris
* added basic test for imjournal
* added threading tests via valgrind's helgrind tool
* added valgrind test for kafka modules
* added capability to run elasticsearch tests with
a) different ElasticSearch versions
b) independently from OS-installed version
This also sets base to enable more elaboreate ES tests
* further relaxed timing of dynstats tests, as they tend to create
false positives on slow machines
- CI: improved test coverage on FreeBSD
- Travis: clang static analyzer 5.0 now run over all source files
- build: make compile warning-free under gcc 7
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 8.30.0 [v8-stable] 2017-10-17
- NEW BUILD REQUIREMENTS
* libfastjson 0.99.7 is now mandatory
the new version is required to support case-insensitive variable
comparisons, which are now the default
* when building imjournal, libsystemd-journal >= 234 is now recommended
This is to support the imjournal enhancement. Note that it is possible
to build with lower version, but this will degrade imjournal functionality.
- CHANGE OF BEHAVIOUR: all variables are now case-insensitive by default
Formerly, JSON based variables ($!, $., $/) were case-sensitive.
Turn old default back on: global(variables.casesensitve="on")
See ChangeLog entry below for more details.
- core: handle (JSON) variables in case-insensitive way
The variable system inside rsyslog is JSON based (for easy consumption
of JSON input, the prime source of structured data). In JSON, keys
("variable names") are case-sensitive. This causes constant problems
inside rsyslog configurations. A major nit is that case-insensitivity
option inside templates (even if turned on) does not work with JSON
keys because they of inner workings*1.
It is much more natural to treat keys in a case-INsensitive way (e.g.
"$!Key" and "$!key" are the same). We do not expect any real problems
out of this, as key names only differing in case is highly unlikely.
However, as it is possible we provide a way to enable case-sensitivity
via the global(variables.casesensitve="on") global config object.
Note that the default is to do case-insensitive matches. The reason
is that this is the right thing to do in almost all cases, and we do
not envision any problems at all in existing deployments.
*1 Note: case-insensitivity in rsyslog is achieved by converting all
names to lower case. So that the higher speed of strcmp() can be used.
The template option does actually that, convert the template keys to
lower case. Unfortunately, this does not work with JSON, as JSON keys
are NOT converted to lower case.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1805
- imjournal: made switching to persistent journal in runtime possible
with this patch imjournal can continue logging after switch to
persistent journal without need to restart rsyslog service
Thanks to github user jvymazal for the patch
- mmanon: complete refactor and enhancements
- add pseudonymization mode
- add address randomization mode
- add support for IPv6 (this also supports various replacement modes)
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1614
also fixes bugs
- in IPv4 address recognition
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1720
- in IPv4 simple mode to-be-anonymized bits can get wrong
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1717
- imfile: add "fileoffset" metadata
This permits to send the offset from which the message was read together
with the message text.
Thanks to github user derekjsonar for the initial implementation which
we extended to use the message start offset.
- RainerScript: add ltrim and rtrim functions
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1711
- core: report module name when suspending action
Thanks to Orion Poplawski for the patch.
- core: add ability to limit number of error messages going to stderr
This permits to put a hard limit on the number of messages that can
go to stderr. If for nothing else, this capability is helpful for the
testbench. It permits to reduce spamming the test log while still
providing the ability to see initial error messages. Might also be
useful for some practical deployments.
global parameter: global(errorMessagesToStderr.maxNumber)
- tcpsrv subsystem: improvate clarity of some error messages
operating system error message are added to some messages, providing
better advise of what actually is the error cause
- imptcp: include module name in error msg
- imtcp: include module name in error msg
- tls improvement: better error message if certificate file cannot be read
- omfwd: slightly improved error messages during config parsing
They now contain config file/line number information where this was missing.
- ommysql improvements
* Return specifc code for unrecoverable errors. This makes retry processing
more performant and robust.
* error messages improved
* Update to utilize native v8 transactional interface. Previously, it used
the v7 interface with v8 emulation.
* treat server and client-generated messages differently
Server-generated error messages are considered non-recoverable, while
client generated once point into connection problems (which simply can
be retried). This is part of the improvements towards better
message-induced errors. Previous commits did only handle SQL parsing
errors, now we aim to address all of the message-induced error. We assume
that all server-generated errors are such - mysql API unfortunately does
not provide a clear indication of what type if error this is and it is
out of question to check for hundereds of error codes.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1830
- ommysql bugfix: do not duplicate entries on failed transaction
If a multi-message batch contains data errors, messages may be
duplicated as connection close is implicit commit (not rollback).
This patch introduces a specific rollback request in those cases.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1829
- imtcp bugfix: parameter priorityString was ignored
defaults were always used
- template/bugfix: invalid template option conflict detection
This prevented "option.casesenstive" to be used with the SQL and JSON
options.
- core/actions: fix handling of data-induced errors
Rsyslog core should try to detect data-induced (unrecoverable) errors
during action processing. An example of such is invalid SQL statements.
If the action returns a data error, rsyslog shall retry individual
messages from a batch in an effort to log those without errors. The others
shall be dropped.
This logic was temporarily disabled after the switch to the new v8
transaction interface. Now this bug is fixed and the testbench has been
ammended to detect problems in the future.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/974
- core/action bugfix: no "action suspended" message during retry processing
The action engine does not emit "action suspended" messages but "resumed"
ones in retry processing. This is wrong, as they are a strong indication
that something does not work correctly. Nevertheless, "resumed" messages
were emitted, which was very puzzling for the user.
This patch fixes it so that "suspend" messages are given during retry
processing. These do not contain a retry timestamp, providing evidence
that a retry is currently being tried.
coses https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1069
- core/ratelimit bugfix: race can lead to segfault
There was a race in iminternalAddMsg(), where the mutex is
released and after that the passed message object is accessed.
If the mainloop iterates in between, the msg may have already
been deleted by this time, resulting in a segfault.
Most importantly, there is no need to release the mutex lock
early, as suggested by current code. Inside mainloop the mutex
is acquired when it is time to do so, so at worst we'll have a
very slight wait there (which really does not matter at all).
This only happens if a large number of internal messages are emitted.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1828
- core bugfix: rsyslog aborts if errmsg is generated in early startup
Note that the segfault can occur only during early startup. Once
rsyslog has started, everything works reliably. This condition can
especially be triggerred by specifying invalid TLS default certificates.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1783
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1786
- core bugfix: informational messages was logged with error severity
When the main loop reaped a child process (a normal action), this was
reported as an error. This caused user confusion. Now it is reported as
an informational message.
- core bugfix: --enable-debugless build was broken
This was a regression from the v8.29.0 debug enhancements
Thanks to Stephen Workman for the patch.
- queue bugfix: file write error message was incorrect
when a queue was restarted from disk file, it almost always
emitted a message claiming
"file opened for non-append write, but already contains xxx bytes"
This message was wrong and did not indicate a real error condition.
The predicate check was incorrect.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/170 (kind of)
- omrelp bugfix: segfault when rebindinterval parameter is used
- imudp bugfix: UDP oversize message not properly handled
When a message larger than supported by the UDP stack is to be sent,
EMSGSIZE is returned, but not specifically handled. That in turn
will lead to action suspension. However, this does not make sense
because messages over the UDP max message size simply cannot be sent.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1654
- core bugfix: memory corruption during configuration parsing
when omfwd is used with the $streamdriverpermittedpeers legacy
parameter, a memory corruption can occur. This depends on the
length of the provided strings and probably the malloc subsystem.
Once config parsing succeeds, no problem can happen.
Thanks to Brent Douglas for initially reporting this issue and
providing great analysis.
Thanks to github user bwdoll for analyzing this bug and providing
a suggested fix (which is almost what this commit includes).
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1408
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1474
- core bugfix: race on worker thread termination during shutdown
The testbench got some occasionally failing tests. Review of
them brought up the idea that there is a race during worker
threat termination. Further investigation showed that this
might be a long-standing issue, but so far did not really
surface as the timing was almost always correct. However,
with the new functionality to emit a message on worker
shutdown (v8.29), the timing got more complex and now this
seemed to occasionally surface.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1754
- omelasticsearch: avoid ES5 warnings while sending json in bulkmode
do this by adding proper content type header to ES request
Thanks to William Dauchy for the patch
- omelasticsearch bugfix: incompatibility with newer ElasticSearch version
ElasticSearch changed its API in newer versions. When "bulkmode" is enabled
in omelasticsearch, rsyslog seems to consider all responses from Elasticsearch
as errors, even the successful ones. As a consequence, every single request
ends up being logged into the error file.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1731
Thanks to Vincent Quéméner for the patch.
- imptcp bugfix: invalid mutex addressing on some platforms
code did not compile on platforms without atomic instructions
Thanks to github user petiepooo for the patch
- imptcp bugfix: do not accept missing port in legacy listener definition
If legacy listener definition was used, a missing port was accepted during
the config read phase but errored out upon listener activation. This now
errors out directly when processing the config directive.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 8.29.0 [v8-stable] 2017-08-08
- imptcp: add experimental parameter "multiline"
This enables a heuristic to support multiline messages on raw tcp syslog
connections.
- imptcp: framing-related error messages now also indicate remote peer
This is the case e.g. for oversize messages.
- imtcp: framing-related error messages now also indicate remote peer
This is the case e.g. for oversize messages.
- imptcp: add session statistics conunter
- session.opened
- session.openfailed
- session.closed
- imtcp: add ability to specify GnuTLS priority string
This permits to set cipher details on a very low level.
- impstats: add new ressoure counter "openfiles"
- pmnormalize: new parser module
Parser module that uses liblognorm to parse incoming messages.
- core/queue: provide informational messages on thread startup and shutdown
This provides better insight into operational state of rsyslog and is useful
in monitoring system health. Note that this causes the emission of messages
not previously seen. They are of syslog.informational priority.
- omfwd/udp: improve error reporting, depricate maxerrormessages parameter
Generally improved udp-related error messages (e.g. they now contain the
socket number, which makes it easier to related them to errors reported by
net.c subsystem).
We also depricated (removed) the "maxerrormessages" configuration parameters.
It provided some very rough rate-limiting capabilities and was introduced
before we had native rate-limiters. The default was that only the first 5
error messages were actually reported. For long-running instances, that
meant that in many cases no errors were ever reported. We now use the default
internal message rate limter, which works far better and ensures that also
long-running instances will be able to emit error messages after prolonged
runtime. In contrast, this also means that users will see more error
messages from rsyslog, but that should actually improve the end user
experience.
- core: add parameters debug.file and debug.whitelist
allows to generate debug log output only of specific files
Background information available at:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/improving-rsyslog-debug-output-jan-gerhards
- core/net.c: improve UDP socket creation error messages
- omfwd/udp: add "udp.sendbuf" parameter
- core: make rsyslog internal message rate-limiter configurable
New parameters "internalmsg.ratelimit.interval" and "internalmsg.ratelimit.burst"
have been added.
- omelasticsearch bugfixes and changed ES5 API support:
* avoid 404 during health check
Omleasticsearch responds differently to HTTP HEAD and GET requests and
returns correct state only on GET requests. This patch works around
that ES bug and always does a GET request even when technically a HEAD
request would be sufficient.
* avoid ES5 warnings while sending json
ES5 is generating warnings when sending json without the proper header:
$ curl -i -H "Content-Type: text/json" -XGET 'http://elasticsearch5:9200/' \
-d '{}\n'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Warning: 299 Elasticsearch-5.4.3-eed30a8 "Content type detection for rest
requests is deprecated. Specify the content type using the [Content-Type]
header." "Wed, 26 Jul 2017 14:33:28 GMT"
no issue on previous version.
Now, the header is set as application/json. It works for all versions
(tested on ES2 and ES5) we also handle the bulkmode where it should be
set to application/x-ndjson
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1546
* bugfix for memomry leak while writing error file
Thanks to William Dauchy for providing the patches
- imfile bugfix: wildcard detection issue on path wildcards
Wildcards mode was not properly detected when wildcards
were only used in a directory name on startup.
This caused imfile not to create a propper dynamic filewatch.
closes: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1672
- omfwd bugfix: always give reason for suspension
In many cases, no error message were emitted when omfwd
went into action suspension, which was confusing for end
users. This patch enables explicit error messages in all
those cases.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/782
- omfwd bugfix: configured compression level was not properly used
Thanks to Harshvardhan Shrivastava for the patch.
- imptcp bugfix: potential socket leak on session shutdown
imptcp first tries to remove a to-be-shut-down socket from the
epoll set, and errors out if that does not work. In that case, the
underlying socket will be leaked.
This patch refactors the code; most importantly, it is not necessary
to remove the socket from the epoll set, as this happens automatically
on close. As such, we simply remove that part of the code, which
also removes the root cause of the socket leak.
- omfwd/omudpspoof bugfix: switch udp client sockets to nonblocking mode
On very busy systems, we see "udp send error 11" inside the logs, and the requesting
action is being suspended (and later resumed). During the suspension period (in
default configuration), messages are lost. Error 11 translates to EAGAIN and the
cause of this problem is that the system is running out of UDP buffer space. This
can happen on very busy systems (with busy networks).
It is not an error per se. Doing a short wait will resolve the issue. The real root
cause of the issue is that omfwd uses a nonblocking socket for sending. If it were
blocking, the OS would block until the situation is resolved. The need for a
non-blocking sockets is a purely historical one. In the days of single-threaded
processing (pre v3), everything needed to be done by multiplexing, and blocking was
not permitted. Since then, the engine has dramatically changed. Actions now run on
their own thread(s). As such, there is no longer a hard need to use non-blocking i/o
for sending data. Many other output plugins also do blocking wait (e.g. omelasticsearch).
As such, the real root cause of the trouble is unnecessarily using non-blocking mode,
and consequently the right solution is to change that.
Note that using blocking i/o might change some timeing inside rsyslog, especially
during shutdown. So theoretical there is regression potential in that area. However,
the core is designed to handle that situation (e.g. there is special shutdown code to
handle the blocking case), so this does not stand against the "proper" solution.
This patch applies the change on the rsyslog core level, within net.c. The only
users of the changed functionality are omfwd and omudpspoof. Imudp is unaffected as
it requests server sockets.
Note that according to the sendto() man page, there is a second cause for the EAGAIN
error, this is when the system temporarily runs out of emphermeral ports. It is not
100% clear if this can also happen in the blocking case. However, if so, we can argue
this is a case where we really want the default retry logic. So for the time being,
it is appropriate to not handle EAGAIN in a special case any longer.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1665
- imklog: fix permitnonkernelfacility not working
- impstats bugfix: impstats does not handle HUP
If the parameter "log.file" is specified, impstats writes its own
log file. However, HUP is not handled for this file, which makes
the functionality unusable with log rotation. It is also counter-
intuitive for users.
This patch enables correct HUP processing. As a sideline, it also
introduces a generic HUP processing framework for non-action type
of loadable modules.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1662
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1663
- core bugfix: segfault after configuration errors
- core/queue bugfixes:
* Fix behaviour of PersistStateInterval
If PersistStateInterval=1, then each log line read should cause the state file
to be updated, but this was not happening because nRecords was being post-increment.
Thanks to Anthony Howe for the patch.
* potential problem during deserialization
if queue object deserialization fails, invalid memory blocks might be
free'ed.
For more information see https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/1647
Thanks to Derek Smith for the patch.
- core bugfix: messsage garbled after message modification
The MsgDup() function will return a garbled message object under these
conditions: The message was originally created with message length equal or
larger to CONF_RAWMSG_BUFSIZE. This makes rsyslog store the message in
dynamically allocated buffer space. Then, a component reduces the message
size to a size lower than CONGF_RAWMSG_BUFSIZE. A frequent sample is the
parser removing a known-bad LF at the end of the messages. Then, MsgDup is
executed. It checks the message size and finds that it is below
CONF_RAWMSG_BUFSIZE, which make it copy the msg object internal buffer
instead of the dynamically allocated one. That buffer was not written to in
the first place, so unitialized data is copied. Note that no segfault can
happen, as the copied location was properly allocated, just not used in
this processing flow. In the end result, the new message object contains
garbage data. Whenever the new object is used (e.g. in a async ruleset or
action) that garbage will be used. Whenever the old object is accessed,
correct data will be used. Both types of access can happen inside the
same processing flow, which makes the problem appear to be random.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1658
- lmsig_ksi: removed pre-KSI_LS12 components
As of GuardTime, the provider, these no longer work due to backend
changes. The lmsig_ksi_ls12 module shall be used instead. This is
available since 8.27.0.
- testbench bugfix: hang in tests if omstdout is not present
Many tests depend on omstdout. Given the fact that omstdout
is really only useful for the testbench (at least that's the intent),
we now require --enable-omstdout if --enable-testbench is given.
The alternative would have been to disable all those tests that
need it, which would have lead to considerable less testbench
coverage.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1649
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Version 8.28.0 [v8-stable] 2017-06-27
- NEW BUILD REQUIREMENT: librelp 1.2.14 (to build relp components)
This was necessary because imrelp requires an API introduced in 1.2.14.
- omfwd: add parameter "tcp_frameDelimiter"
- omkafka: large refactor of kafka subsystem
This offers improvements and greatly increases reliablity.
Closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1559
Closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1584
Closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1515
Closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1052
May fix https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1230
- imfile: improved handling of atomically renamed file (w/ wildcards)
if a file is atomically renamed, the state file is also being renamed,
so processing continues as if the original name were kept.
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1417
- imfile: add capability to truncate oversize messages or split into multiple
also in this case an error message is emitted. Both of these actions are
configurable. This also solves memory issues when an endregex does not
match for prolonged time. In that case, large parts of the file were
previously buffered, which could cause big problems in case e.g. the
endregex was simply wrong and never matched. For the later, see also
https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1552
- mmdblookup
* upgraded from "contrib" to "fully supported" state
* refactored and simplified code
* added ability to specify custom names for extracted fields
* added ability to spehttp://www.landesrecht-bw.de/jportal/portal/t/6el/page/bsbawueprod.psml/action/portlets.jw.MainAction?p1=0&eventSubmit_doNavigate=searchInSubtreeTOC&showdoccase=1&doc.hl=0&doc.id=jlr-UmwVwGBWrahmen&doc.part=R&toc.poskey=#focuspointcify container name for extracted fields
* bugfix: fixed multiple memory leaks
- imptcp: add new parameter "flowControl"
- imrelp: add "maxDataSize" config parameter
Thanks to Nathan Brown for the patch.
- multiple modules: gtls: improve error if certificate file can't be opened
- omsnare: allow different tab escapes
Thanks to Shane P. Lawrence for the patch.
- omelasticsearch: converted to use libfastjson instead of json-c
json-c was used for historical purposes, and it's source included
within the rsyslog source tree. We now use libfastjson inside all
components.
- imjournal: _PID fallback
* added fallback for _PID proprety when SYSLOG_PID is not available
* introduced new option "usepid" which sets which property should
rsyslog use, it has 3 states system|syslog|both, default is both
* deprecated "usepidfromsystem" option, still can be used
and override the "usepid"
* it is possible to revert previous default with usepid="syslog"
Thanks to Radovan Sroka for the patch
- multiple modules: add better error messages when regcomp is failing
- omhiredis: fix build warnings
Thanks to Brian Knox for the fix.
- imfile bugfix: files mv-ed in into directory were not handled
Thanks to Zachary M. Zhao for the patch.
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1588
- omprog bugfix: execve() incorrectly called
this caused failures on some but not all platforms
Thanks to 張君天(Chun-Tien Chang) and Matthew Seaman for the patch.
- imfile bugfix: multiline timeout did not work if state file exists
The timeout feature for multiline reads does not correctly work for
files for which a state file existed. This is usually the case for files
that had been processed by a previous run and that still exist on the
new start. For all other files, especially those monitored by a
wildcard and newly created after the rsyslog start, timeout worked as
expected.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1445
- lmsig_ksi-ls12 bugfix: build problems on some platforms
- core bugfix: invalid object type assertion
This lead to aborts due to failing assertion. Note that this could only
happen during debugging runs which includes runtime instrumentation,
something that never should be done in a stable production build.
So this did not affect ordinary users, only developers in with
deep debugging settings.
- regression fix: local hostname was not always detected properly...
... on early start (w/o network). Introduced in 8.27.0.
Thanks to github user jvymazal for the patch and whissi for
reporting and helping with the analysis.
- bugfix: format security issues in zmq3 modules
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/1565
Thanks to Thomas D. (whissi) for the patch.
- bugfix build system: add libksi only to those binaries that need it
Thanks to Allan Park for the patch.
- bugfix KSI ls12 components: invalid tree height calculation
Thanks to Allan Park for the patch.
- testbench/CI enhancements
* re-enable and add kafka tests
Kafka tests were disabled in 8.27.0 (a regression from imkafka).
* better testbench coverage for mmdblookup
* lmsig_ksi-ls12 is now being built at least on Centos7
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Version 8.27.0 [v8-stable] 2017-05-16
- imkafka: add module
- imptcp enhancements:
* optionally emit an error message if incoming messages are truncated
* optionally emit connection tracking message (on connection create and
close)
* add "maxFrameSize" parameter to specify the maximum size permitted
in octet-counted mode
* add parameter "discardTruncatedMsg" to permit truncation of
oversize messages
* improve octect-counted mode detection: if the octet count is larger
then the set frame size (or overly large in general), it is now
assumed that octet-stuffing mode is used. This probably solves a
number of issues seen in real deployments.
- imtcp enhancements:
* add parameter "discardTruncatedMsg" to permit truncation of
oversize messages
* add "maxFrameSize" parameter to specify the maximum size permitted
in octet-counted mode
- imfile bugfix: "file not found error" repeatedly being reported
for configured non-existing file. In polling mode, this message
appeared once in each polling cycle, causing a potentially very large
amout of error messages. Note that they were usually emitted too
infrequently to trigger the error message rate limiter, albeit often
enough to be a major annoance.
- imfile: in inotify mode, add error message if configured file cannot
be found
- imfile: add parameter "fileNotFoundError" to optinally disable
"file not found" error messages
- core: replaced gethostbyname() with getaddrinfo() call
Gethostbyname() is generally considered obsolete, is not reentrant and
cannot really work with IPv6. Changed the only place in rsyslog where
this call remained.
Thanks to github user jvymazal for the patch
- omkafka: add "origin" field to stats output
See also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1508
Thanks to Yury Bushmelev for providing the patch.
- imuxsock: rate-limiting also uses process name
both for the actual limit procesing as well as warning messages emitted
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/1520
Thanks to github user jvymazal for the patch
- Added new module: KSI log signing ver. 1.2 (lmsig_ksi_ls12)
- rsylsog base functionality now builds on osx (Mac)
Thanks to github user hdatma for his help in getting this done.
- build now works on solaris again
- imfile: fix cross-platform build issue
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1494
Thanks to Felix Janda for bug report and solution suggestion.
- bugfix core: segfault when no parser could parse message
This could happen if the default parser chain was changed and the
RFC3164 parser was not included. Never seen in practice, just by
experimenting in lab.
- bugfix core: rate-limit internal messages when going to external log system
Rate-limiting was only applied to messages processed internally.
While the external logging system probably also applies rate-limiting,
it would be preferrable that rsyslog applies the same policies on
internal messages, no matter where they go. This is now the case.
- bugfix core: when obtaining local hostname, a NULL pointer could be
accessed. This depends on many factors, among them that no local host
name is configured in rsyslog.conf AND the local system configuration
also is set to an empty hostname.
Thanks to github user jvymazal for the patch.
- bugfix core: on shutdown, stderr was written to, even if already closed
This lead to messages going to whatever was associated with file
descriptor two.
Thanks to Allan Park for the patch.
- bugfix core: perform MainqObj destruction only when not NULL already
This affects the config object; in theory may lead to misadressing during
config parsing.
Thanks to github user jvymazal for the patch
- bugfix core: memory leak when internal messages not processed internally
In this case, the message object is not destructed, resulting in
a memory leak. Usually, this is no problem due to the low number
of internal message, but it can become an issue if a large number
of messages is emitted.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1548
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1531
- bugfix imptcp: potential overflow in octet count computation
when a very large octet count was specified, the counter could overflow
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Version 8.26.0 [v8-stable] 2017-04-04
- NEW BUILD REQUIREMENT: liblognorm 2.0.3 is required for mmnormalize
If mmnormalize is not built, the build requirements are unchanged.
The new version is necessary because it contains an enhanced API for a
new mmnormalize feature.
- enable internal error messages at all times
This is an important change to the design of the rsyslog core internal
error message system. Previous code could deadlock if internal messages were
issued inside queue processing code, which effectively limited error-reporting
capabilities. This change makes it possible to call error messages from any
part of the code at any time.
As a side-effect, this also fixes an issue where rsyslog could deadlock if
imuxsock submited messages to the system log socket when that socket blocked.
This was a rare race, albeit consistently reproducible and also seen in
practice. The work-around for this issue was to set
global(processInternalMessages="on")
in rsyslog.conf. With the new code, this race can never happen again. The new
code also sets stage for emitting better error messages, especially in places
where we previously refrained from doing so and messages went only to the
debug log. For some file output and queue subsytem related messages, this
is already done, but there is still further work required.
Note well: this is a redesign of an important core component. While intensely
tested, this may still have some larger regeression potential than usual code
changes.
- core: added logging name of source of rate-limited messages
This adds the name to the rate-limiting message itself, making it easier
to identify the actual source of "spam" messages.
Thanks to github user jvymazal for the patch.
- omfwd: omfwd: add support for network namespaces
Thanks to Bastian Stender for the patch.
- imrelp: honor input name if provided when submitting to impstats
Thanks to Jon Henry for the patch.
- imptcp: add ability to set owner/group/access perms for uds
Thanks to Nathan Brown for implementing this feature.
- mmnormalize: add ability to load a rulebase from action() parameter
This is especially useful for small rulebases, as it avoids having
a separate rulebase file.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/625
- pmrfc3164 improvements
- permit to ignore leading space in MSG
- permit to use at-sign in host names
- permit to require tag to end in colon
Thanks to github user bdolez for the contribution
- add new global parameter "umask"
This is equivalent to "$umask" and permits to convert that construct
to new-style config format.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1382
- core: make use of -T command line option more secure
When the -T option is used, a chdir is now done right after chroot. It must
be noted, though, that -T is a testing option and has no intent to provide
real security. So this change does not mean it actually is sufficiently
secure.
Thanks to github user jvymazal for the patch.
- omfile: add error if both file and dynafile are set
- bugfix: build problem on MacOS (not a supported platform)
Thanks to FX Coudert for the fix.
- regression fix: in 8.25, str2num() returned error on empty string
past behaviour was to return 0 in this case; past behavior was reinstanciated
Thanks to github user jvymazal for the patch.
- bugfix omsnmp: improper handling of new-style configuration parameters
Thanks to Radovan Sroka for the patch.
- bugfix: rsyslog identifies itself as "liblogging-stdlog" in internal messages
This occured when liblogging-stdlog was used, and was used by default (without
explicit configuration). This is a regression of the new default, which does
not correctly call stdlog_open() in the default case.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1442
- bugfix imfile: wrong files were monitored when using multiple imfile inputs
The bug was introduced by the changes for the multilevel wildcard feature
in 8.25.0. We have to handle FileCreate events different if the directory
watch is configured or added dynamically.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1452
- bugfix: setting net.aclResolveHostname/net.acladdhostnameonfail segfaults
When compiling using hardned gcc (gentoo), specifying net.aclResolveHostname
or net.acladdhostnameonfail results in rsyslogd segfaulting on startup.
Thanks to Radovan Sroka for the patch.
- bugfix: immark emitted error messages with text "imuxsock"
Thanks to Chris Pilkington for the patch.
- bugfix tcpflood: build failed if RELP was disabled
- fix gcc6 compiler warnings
This also fixes a small bug with incorrectly working deprecated -u
command line option.
Thanks to Nikola Pajkovsky for the patch.
- the output module array passing interface has been removed
It wasn't functional since the v8 update, and the only user was omoracle,
which is a contributed module that is no longer maintained. So we
removed that interface to streamline the code. Should it ever be needed
again, we could check the 8.25 code base. Note, though, that that code
still needs to be adjusted to the v8 engine.
- testbench:
* tcpflood now automatically enters silent mode during Travis CI testing
This reduces testbench output, which is limited under Travis.
* the libqpid-proton package is no longer available for Ubuntu trusty. As
such, we disabled its use in Travis on this platform. Right now, this
means omaqp1 module is no longer tested on trusty.
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Version 8.25.0 [v8-stable] 2017-02-21
- imfile: add support for wildcards in directory names
This now permits to monitor newly created directories without altering
the configuration.
- add new global option "parser.PermitSlashInProgramname"
- mmdblookup: fix build issues, code cleanup
Thanks to Dan Molik for the patch.
- improved debug output for queue corruption cases
- an error message is now displayed when a directory owner cannot be set
This mostly happens with omfile and dynafils. The new messages
facilitates troubleshooting.
- rainerscript:
* add new function ipv42num
* add new function num2ipv4
- bugfix: ratelimiter does not work correctly is time is set back
Thanks to github user hese10 for the patch.
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1354
- core: fix potential message loss in old-style transactional interface
This was experienced for example by omrelp. Could loose one message per
broken connection, iff that message did not make it to the unacked list.
- bugfix queue subsystem: queue corrupted if certain msg props are used
The core issues was in the msg object deserializer, which had the wrong
deserialization sequence. That in turn lead to queue corruption issues.
Corruption of disk queue (or disk part of DA queue) always happens if
the "json" property (message variables) is present and "structured-data"
property is also present. This causes rsyslog to serialize to the
queue in wrong property sequence, which will lead to error -2308 on
deserialization.
Seems to be a long-standing bug. Depending on version used, some or
all messages in disk queue may be lost.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1404
- bugfix imjournal: fixed situation when time goes backwards
This is resolving the situation when system is after reboot and
boot_id doesn't match so cursor pointing into "future".
Usually sd_journal_next jump to head of journal due to journal
aproximation, but when system time goes backwards and cursor is
still invalid, rsyslog stops logging.
We use sd_journal_get_cursor to validate our cursor.
When cursor is invalid we are trying to jump to the head of journal
This problem with time should not affect persistent journal,
but if cursor has been intentionally compromised it could stop
logging even with persistent journal.
- bugfix: bFlushOnTxEnd == 0 not honored when writing w/o async writer
If bFlushOnTXEnd is set, we need to flush on transaction end - in
any case. It is not relevant if this is using background writes
(which then become pretty slow) or not. And, similarly, no flush
happens when it is not set.
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1297
- bugfix core: str2num mishandling empty strings
If str2num() receives an empty string, misadressing happens.
This theoretically can lead to a segfault if a RainerScript function
is used inside the configuration which calls code that could trigger
this bug.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1412
- bugfix rainerscript: set/unset statement do not check variable name validity
Only JSON-based variables can be use with set and unset. Unfortunately,
this restriction is not checked. If an invalid variable is given
(e.g. $invalid), this is not detected upon config processing on
startup. During execution phase, this can lead to a segfault, a
memory leak or other types of problems.
Thanks to github user mostolog for reporting and helping to analyze
this issue.
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1376
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1377
- bugfix mmrm1stspace: last character of rawmsg property was doubled
- bugfix: rsyslog loops on freebsd when trying to write /dev/console
Rsyslog 8.23.0 loops on FreeBSD when trying to access a (now revoked)
/dev/console file descriptor, as per Alexandre's original bug report [1].
The original patch fixes the problem when tryTTYRecover() sees errno 6 ENXIO.
Running FreeBSD 10-stable here and getting errno 5 EIO, same as Xavier gets
in his 2016 bug report [2].
New patch [3] includes errno 5 to tryTTYRecover() in runtime/stream.c and
fixes the problem for me, on multiple machines.
[1] https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/371
[2] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211033
[3] https://bz-attachments.freebsd.org/attachment.cgi?id=178452
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1351
Thanks to Damien Fleuriot for the patch.
- bugfix imtcp: fix very small (cosmetic) memory leak
For each listener, the name of an assigned ruleset is not freed. This
is cosmetic, because it is a very small static leak AND it needs to
be kept until end of run anyways (and at end of run the OS frees it).
However, the leak breaks memleak checks in the testbench.
- fix build issues on some platforms (detected on newer Fedora)
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Version 8.24.0 [v8-stable] 2017-01-10
- rsyslog now builds on AIX
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/1247
Thanks to github user purnimam1 and the team at IBM
Note: the rsyslog project has no AIX platform to ensure that future versions
will remain buildable on AIX. If you would like to contribute ressources,
please contact the rsyslog team.
- mmdblookup: new maxminddb lookup message modify plugin
Thanks to 饶琛琳 (github user chenryn) for the contribution
- mmrm1stspace: new module; removes first space in MSG if present
- KSI signature provider: file permissions can now be specified
This happens via parameters equal to those used by omfile itself.
Note that KSI files can have different permissions/owner than the log
files themself.
Thanks to Allan Park for the patch.
- omzmq: new features
Thanks to Brian Knox for the patch.
- change: when the hostname is empty, we now use "localhost-empty-hostname"
In 8.23.0, "localhost" was used in this case, but that could be misleading.
The new name makes the error condition (gethostname() should always return
a non-empty name) more obvious.
- omelasticsearch: remove "asyncrepl" config parameter
The _bulk index endpoint on ElasticSearch 5.0 no longer
ignores the ?replication=async query parameter. It was deprecated
since 1.5 and silently ignored in 2.x but passing it to a 5.x
instance breaks omeleastisearch with a 400 response.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1250
- omfwd: Add support for bind-to-device (see below on same for imudp)
- imudp: Add support for bind-to-device
Add support for bind-to-device option to omfwd and imudp modules.
Configured using device="name". Only new syntax format is supported.
e.g.,
input(type="imudp" port=["10514"] device="eth0" name="udp")
Action(type="omfwd" Target="192.168.1.23" Port="10514" Device="eth0")
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/1261
Thanks to David Ahern for the patch.
- imudp: limit rcvbufsize parameter to max 1GiB
- rainerscript: implement new "call_indirect" statement
- bugfix imjournal: make state file handling more robust
There is a bug in rsyslog which is caused by not very atomic writes of
imjournal statefile. It's hardly reproducible but there is a way.
fscanf error appears only when rsyslog reads an empty statefile which
causes that imjournal is stopped so no logging from journal is
performed. When the statefile contains random bytes error appears
again but from journal and imjournal is stopped too.
In this patch Rsyslog writes imjournal statefile more atomically and
secure. Reading the statefile is more robust and doesn't affect
imjournal module so when corrupted statefile is read imjournal
ignores statefile, continues with logging and it doesn't stop. Logger
can be used as a test if it's logging or not.
Patch introduces a new option with both old and new config format
"IgnoreNonValidStateFile" which is "on" by default and it can turn
off ignorance of non valid statefile.
Thanks to github user tomassykora for the patch.
- bugfix core: lookup table reload was not properly integrated
The opcode was not handled, what lead to misleading messages
in debug log. Since we run debug builds more strictly, it also
causes an assertion to trigger, thus aborting the test
- bugfix core: potential dealock on shutdown
could happen when rsyslog was started and quickly shut down OR when
co-incidently a new thread was spawend "with bad timing" around the time
of shutdown.
See also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/1274
Thanks to github user tomassykora for the final patch and Rado Sroka for
the analysis and an initial patch.
- bugfix ommongodb: did not work in v8 due to invalid indirection
Thanks to Benoit Dolez for the patch.
- bugfix ommongodb: fix tryResume handling
To make tryResume working, the connection to mongodb need to be closed.
Thus close it on "insert error".
Thanks to Benoit Dolez for the patch.
- bugfix omfwd: retry processing was not done correctly, could stall
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/1261
Thanks to David Ahern for the patch.
- bugfix imuxsock: segfault non shutdown when $OmitLocalLogging is on
Imuxsock tries to close socket on index 0 which ends with segfault.
Thanks to Tomas Sykora for the patch.
- testbench:
* empty-hostname test did not work correctly
* improve debugging by better output
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 8.23.0 [v8-stable] 2016-11-15
- NEW BUILD REQUIREMENT: libfastjson 0.99.3
This was introduced in 8.20.0 as a suggestion and has now become a hard
requirement. See 8.20.0 ChangeLog entry for more details.
- KSI signatures: removed SHA2-224 hash algorithm
This is considered insecure and no longer supported by the underlying
KSI library. If still used within a configuration, a descriptive error
message is emitted during config processing.
Thanks to Henri Lakk for the initial patch.
- imfile: new timeout feature for multi-line reads
When using startmsg.regex, messages are held until the next one is written.
We now provide a "readTimeout" parameter family (see doc) to timeout such
reads and ensure messages are not held for a very long time.
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1133
- omfile: improve robustness against network file system failures
in case of failure, a close and re-open is tried, which often solves the
issue (and wasn't handle before this patch).
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/1161
Thanks to github user hese10 for the patch.
- pmaixforwardedfrom: support for AIX syslogd -s option
if syslog in AIX started with "-s" option, AIX syslog adds only "From "
instead of "Message forwarded from ". With this patch, both are now
detected.
Thanks to github user patelritesh for the patch.
- omelasticsearch: add ability to specify max http request size
This permits to keep batches below ES-configured limits.
Thanks to github user barakshechter for the patch.
- omelasticsearch: high availability addressing of ElasticSearch cluster
allow to specify an array of servers, which is tried until a working
one is found (and given up only if none works).
Thanks to github user barakshechter for the patch.
- omelasticsearch: make compatible with ElasticSearch 2.x and 5.x
fixes omelasticsearch logs response from ElasticSearch 5.0 _bulk
endpoint as error
See also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/1253
Thanks to Christian Rodemeyer for the patch.
- omhiredis: add dynakey attribute.
If set to on, this causes omhiredis to treat the key attribute as the
name of a template so that you can build a dynamic redis queue name
or list key.
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/1218
Thanks to github user bobthemighty for the patch
- omtcl: new contributed module
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/1041
Please note: contributed modules are not directly supported by the
project. You might want to contact the author for questions.
Thanks to Francisco Castro for contributing it.
- RainerScript: provide a capability to set environment variables
via 'global(environment="var=val")' config statement.
This is most importantly for things like HTTP_PROXY.
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1209
- lookup tables: improved error checking
Thanks to Janmejay Singh for the patch.
- queue subsystem: add configuration parameter "queue.samplinginterval"
Supports sampling of messages (as often used in data transmission).
Thanks to Zachary M. Zhao for the patch.
- bugfix core: errmsg.LogError now switches to dfltErrLogger just before shutdown
Thanks to Janmejay Singh for the patches.
- bugfix core: fixed un-freed memory in non-transactional action using string-passing
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/968
Thanks to Janmejay Singh for the patches.
- rsgtutil: option to specify KSI publications file certificate constraints
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1207
- omprog: bugfixes and enhancements
- omprog resource leak fix (fd leak)
- omprog got ability to force-kill process if it doesn't die in 5 seconds
(linux specific)
- child-process lifecycle debugging aid (in form of logs) (mainLoop and
omprog cleanup both log pid at child-death, mainLoop reaping is now
visible to user, as opposed to being a mystery, because omprog didn't
seem to anticipate it in terms of code)
Thanks to Janmejay Singh for the patches.
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/1155
- bugfix imfile: ReopenOnTruncate processing, file open processing
This fixes
* ReopenOnTrucate was only honored when a state file existed
see https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1090
* open processing could run into a loop
see https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1174
This is done via refactoring the open file handling, which provides
overall cleaner and easier-to-follow code.
Thanks to Owen Smith for analyzing the problem and providing a
prototype PR which greatly helped towards the final solution.
- bugfix omlibdbi: libdbi-driver-sqlite3/2 requires to provide a path to
database split into two strings:
* absolute path, where the database file sits
* database filename itself.
This was previously not done.
Thanks to github user aleek for the patch.
- bugfix RainerScript: issue in prifilt() function
Initialize func-data(and to-be-freed flag) correctly for prifilt
function-node
Thanks to Janmejay Singh for the patch.
- bugfix omrelp: invalid module name imrelp was used in some error messages
Thanks to Chris Pilkington for the patch.
- bugfix core: abort when persisting object state
This causes a segfault. It happens whenever an object state larger
than 4095 byte is persisted. Then, incorrectly a try to rollover to
a new state file is tried, which will lead to a division by zero
as the necessary variables for this operation are not set because we
are NOT in circular mode.
This problem can happen wherever state files are written. It has been
experienced with imfile and queue files.
Many thanks to github user mostolog for his help in reproducing the issue,
which was very important to finally nail down this long-standing bug.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1239
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1162
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1074
- bugfix: segfault if hostname is unset on system
happens when gethostname() returns empty string. This will cause
the createon of the localhostname prop_t to fail, which in turn
leads to a NULL pointer dereference when emitting local messages.
As we emit a startup message by default, this had usually lead
to a segfault on startup.
Thanks to Erik Potter and github user mostolog for their help
in analyzing this problem.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1040
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/335
- bugfix external module perl skeleton: did not work properly
Thanks to github user Igorjan666 for the patch.
- bugfix build system: Fix detection of pthread_setschedparam() on platforms
such as FreeBSD
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/1147
Thanks to Matthew Seaman for the patch.
- bugfix omelasticsearch: modifies constant memory under some circumstances
Function computeBaseUrl may modify its serverParam parameter, but
this may contain the constant string "localhost". Depending on the
platform, this can lead to a segfault.
Noticed while working on compiler warnings, not seen in practice.
- "bugfix": theoretical queue file corruption when more than MAX_INT files
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1202
- bug fix/KSI: LOGSIG11 missing in the beginning of KSI log signature file
When logging with KSI is not working properly for whatever reason, an
empty .ksisig file is created (which by itself is not an issue). However,
later it looks like this file is re-used, but it is not checked whether it
already contains the magic LOGSIG11 in the beginning of the file. This leads
to a log signature file which has correct content but is missing the
LOGSIG11 magic in the beginning.
- bugfix template processor: missing escaping of backslash in json mode
Thanks to github user mostolog for providing the patch.
- build environment: --enable-debug now defaults to new "auto" mode
previously, DEBUG mode (and thus assert() macros) was disabled by default
and explicitly needed to be enabled by providing the --enable-debug
./configure switch. Now, a new --enable-debug=auto mode has been added
and made the default. It enables DEBUG mode if we build from git and only
disables it when a release build is done (from the release tarball). This
aims at better error checking during testbench runs and developer testing.
- testbench improvements
* improved testbench file generation tool
Thanks to Pascal Withopf for the patch.
* added some plumbing for extended tests which work by overriding OS APIs
* imfile ReopenOnTruncate option is now being tested
* the CI environment now runs most tests in debug mode, but some in
release mode to cover potential release-mode races
* template json option is now being tested
* object state persisting received a basic test
* added test for empty hostnames
* added tests for omprog
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Version 8.22.0 [v8-stable] 2016-10-04
- ompgsql: add template support
Thanks to Radu Gheorghe for implementing this.
- generate somewhat better error message on config file syntax error
a common case (object at invalid location) has received it's own error
message; for the rest we still rely on the generic flex/bison handler
- bugfix:omhiredis reconnects after failure
previously it could loose messages under such conditions.
Thanks to Bob Gregory for the patch.
- general cleanup and code improvement
mostly guided by compiler warnings induced by newer opensuse builbot
environment
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Version 8.21.0 [v8-stable] 2016-08-23
- CHANGE OF BEHAVIOUR:
by default, internal messages are no longer logged via the internal
bridge to rsyslog but via the syslog() API call [either directly or
via liblogging). For the typical single-rsyslogd-instance installation this
is mostly unnoticable (except for some additional latency). If multiple
instances are run, only the "main" (the one processing system log messages)
will see all messages. To return to the old behaviour, do either of those
two:
1) add in rsyslog.conf:
global(processInternalMessages="on")
2) export the environment variable RSYSLOG_DFLT_LOG_INTERNAL=1
This will set a new default - the value can still be overwritten via
rsyslog.conf (method 1). Note that the environment variable must be
set in your **startup script**.
For more information, please visit
http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-error-reporting-improved/
- slightly improved TLS syslog error messages
- queue subsystem: improved robustness
The .qi file is now persisted whenever an existing queue file is fully
written and a new file is begun. This helps with rsyslog aborts, including
the common case where the OS issues kill -9 because of insufficiently
configured termination timout (this is an OS config error, but a frequent
one). Also, a situation where an orphaned empty file could be left in the
queue work directory has been fixed. We expect that this change causes
fewer permanent queue failures.
- bugfix: build failed on some platforms due to missing include files
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 8.20.0 [v8-stable] 2016-07-12
- NEW BUILD REQUIREMENT: librelp, was 1.2.5, now is 1.2.12
This is only needed if --enable-relp is used. The new version is needed
to support the new timeout parameter in omrelp.
- NEW BUILD SUGGESTION: libfastjson 0.99.3
while not strictly necessary, previous versions of libfastjson have a bug
in unicode processing that can result in non US-ASCII characters to be
improperly encoded and may (very unlikely) also cause a segfault.
This version will become mandatory in rsyslog 8.23.0
- omrelp: add configurable connection timeout
Thanks to Nathan Brown for implementing this feature.
- pmrfc3164: add support for slashes in hostname
added parameter "permit.slashesinhostname" to support this, off by default
[Note that the RFC5424 always supported this, as 5424 is a different
standard]
- bugfix omfile: handle chown() failure correctly
If the file creation succeeds, but chown() failed, the file was
still writen, even if the user requested that this should be treated
as a failure case. This is corrected now.
Also, some refactoring was done to create better error messages.
- omfile now better conveys status of unwritable files back to core
- config files recursively including themselfes are now detected
and an error message is emitted in that case; Previously, this
misconfiguration resulted in rsyslog loop and abort during startup.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1058
- refactored code to not emit compiler warnings in "strict mode"
We changed the compiler warning settings to be rather strict and cleaned up
the code to work without generating any warning messages.
This results in an overall even more improved code quality, which will now
also be enforced via our CI systems.
- bugfix: fix some issues with action CommitTransaction() handling
An action that returns an error from CommitTransaction() caused a
loop in rsyslog action processing. Similarly, retry processing was not
properly handled in regard to CommitTransaction().
This is a first shot at fixing the situation. It solves the
immediate problems, but does not implement the full desired
functionality (like error file).
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/974
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/500
- bugfix omqmqp1: connecting to the message bus fails on nonstandard port
Thanks to Ken Giusti for the patch.
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/1064
- testbench/CI enhancements
* new tests for RELP components
* new tests for core action processing and retry
* travis tests now also run against all unstable versions of supporting
libraries. This helps to track interdependency problems early.
* new tests for hostname parsing
* new tests for RainerScript comparisons
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Version 8.19.0 [v8-stable] 2016-05-31
- NEW BUILD REQUIREMENT: autoconf-archive
- omelasticsearch: add option to permit unsigned certs (experimentally)
This adds plumbing as suggested by Joerg Heinemann and Radu Gheorghe,
but is otherwise untested. Chances are good it works. If you use it,
please let us know your experience and most importantly any bug
reports you may have.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/89
- imrelp: better error codes on unvailablity of TLS options
Most importantly, we will tell the user in clear words if specific TLS
options are not available due to too-old GnuTLS.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1019
- default stack size for inputs has been explicitely set to 4MiB
for most platforms, this means a reduction from the default of 10MiB, hower
it may mean an increas for micro-libc's (some may have as low as 80KiB by
default).
- testbench: We are now using libfaketime instead of faketime command line
tool. Make sure you have installed the library and not just the binary!
- refactor stringbuf
* use only a single string buffer
... both for the internal representation as well as the C-String one.
The module originally tried to support embedded NUL characters, which
over time has prooven to be not necessary. Rsyslog always encodes
NUL into escape sequences.
Also, the dual buffers were used inconsistently, which could lead to
subtle bugs. With the single buffer, this does no longer happen and
we also get some improved performance (should be noticable)
and reduced memory use (a bit).
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1033
* removed no longer used code
* internal API changes to reflect new needs
* performance improvements
* miscellaneous minor cleanup
- fix: potential misadressing in template config processing
This could cause segfault on startup. Happens when template name shorter
than two chars and outname is not set. Once we are over startup, things
work reliably.
- bugfix omfile: async output file writing does not respect flushing
neither parameter flushInterval nor flushOnTXEnd="on" was respected.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1054
- bugfix imfile: corrupted multi-line message when state data was persisted
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/874
Thanks to Magnus Hyllander for the analysis and a patch suggestion.
- bugfix imfile: missing newline after first line of multiline message
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/843
Thanks to Magnus Hyllander for the patch.
- bugfix: dynstats unusedMetricTtl bug
Thanks to Janmejay Singh for fixing this.
- bugfix build system: build was broken on SunOS
Thanks to Filip Hajny for the patch.
- bugfix: afterRun entry point not correctly called
The entry point was called at the wrong spot, only when the thread
had not already terminated by itself. This could cause various
cleanup to not be done. This affected e.g. imjournal.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/882
- bugfix dynstats: do not leak file handles
Thanks to Janmejay Singh for the patch.
- bugfix omelasticsearch: disable libCURL signal handling
previously, this could lead to segfaults on connection timeout
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/1007
Thanks to Sai Ke WANG for the patch.
- bugfix omelasticsearc: some regressions were fixed
* error file was no longer written
* fix for some potential misaddressings
- improved wording: gnutls error message points to potential cause
What GnutTLS returns us is very unspecific and somehwat misleading, so
we point to what it most probably is (broken connect).
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/846
- some general code improvements
* "fixed" cosmetic memory leaks at shutdown
- build system bugfix: configure can't find gss_acquire_cred on Solaris
Thanks to github user vlmarek for the patch.
- improvements to the CI environment
* improvements on the non-raciness of some tests
* imdiag: avoid races in detecting queue empty status
This reslolves cases where the testbench terminated rsyslog too early,
resulting in potential message loss and test failure.
* omkafka has now dynamic tests
Thanks to Janmejay Singh for implementing them.
* try to merge PR to master and run tests; this guards against cross-PR
regressions and wasn't caught previously. Note that we skip this test
if we cannot successfully merge. So this is not a replacement for a
daily full "all-project integration test run".
* travis has finally enabled elasticsearch tests
ES was unfortunately not being regularly tested for quite a while due to
missing environment. This lead to some regressions becoming undetected.
These were now discovered thanks to the new support on travis. Also, this
guards against future regressions.
* imfile has now additional tests and overall better coverage
* omfile has now additional tests
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 8.18.0 [v8-stable] 2016-04-19
- testbench: When running privdrop tests testbench tries to drop
user to "rsyslog", "syslog" or "daemon" when running as root and
you don't explict set RSYSLOG_TESTUSER environment variable.
Make sure the unprivileged testuser can write into tests/ dir!
- templates: add option to convert timestamps to UTC
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/730
- omjournal: fix segfault (regression in 8.17.0)
- imptcp: added AF_UNIX support
Thanks to Nathan Brown for implementing this feature.
- new template options
* compressSpace
* date-utc
- redis: support for authentication
Thanks to Manohar Ht for the patch
- omkafka: makes kafka-producer on-HUP restart optional
As of now, omkafka kills and re-creates kafka-producer on HUP. This
is not always desirable. This change introduces an action param
(reopenOnHup="on|off") which allows user to control re-cycling of
kafka-producer.
It defaults to on (for backward compatibility). Off allows user to
ignore HUP as far as kafka-producer is concerned.
Thanks to Janmejay Singh for implementing this feature
- imfile: new "FreshStartTail" input parameter
Thanks to Curu Wong for implementing this.
- omjournal: fix libfastjson API issues
This module accessed private data members of libfastjson
- ommongodb: fix json API issues
This module accessed private data members of libfastjson
- testbench improvements (more tests and more thourough tests)
among others:
- tests for omjournal added
- tests for KSI subsystem
- tests for priviledge drop statements
- basic test for RELP with TLS
- some previously disabled tests have been re-enabled
- dynamic stats subsystem: a couple of smaller changes
they also involve the format, which is slightly incompatible to
previous version. As this was out only very recently (last version),
we considered this as acceptable.
Thanks to Janmejay Singh for developing this.
- foreach loop: now also iterates over objects (not just arrays)
Thanks to Janmejay Singh for developing this.
- improvements to the CI environment
- enhancement: queue subsystem is more robst in regard to some corruptions
It is now detected if a .qi file states that the queue contains more
records than there are actually inside the queue files. Previously this
resulted in an emergency switch to direct mode, now the problem is only
reported but processing continues.
- enhancement: Allow rsyslog to bind UDP ports even w/out specific
interface being up at the moment.
Alternatively, rsyslog could be ordered after networking, however,
that might have some negative side effects. Also IP_FREEBIND is
recommended by systemd documentation.
Thanks to Nirmoy Das and Marius Tomaschewski for the patch.
- cleanup: removed no longer needed json-c compatibility layer
as we now always use libfastjson, we do not need to support old
versions of json-c (libfastjson was based on the newest json-c
version at the time of the fork, which is the newest in regard
to the compatibility layer)
- new External plugin for sending metrics to SPM Monitoring SaaS
Thanks to Radu Gheorghe for the patch.
- bugfix imfile: fix memory corruption bug when appending @cee
Thanks to Brian Knox for the patch.
- bugfix: memory misallocation if position.from and position.to is used
a negative amount of memory is tried to be allocated if position.from
is smaller than the buffer size (at least with json variables). This
usually leads to a segfault.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/915
- bugfix: fix potential memleak in TCP allowed sender definition
depending on circumstances, a very small leak could happen on each
HUP. This was caused by an invalid macro definition which did not rule
out side effects.
- bugfix: $PrivDropToGroupID actually did a name lookup
... instead of using the provided ID
- bugfix: small memory leak in imfile
Thanks to Tomas Heinrich for the patch.
- bugfix: double free in jsonmesg template
There has to be actual json data in the message (from mmjsonparse,
mmnormalize, imjournal, ...) to trigger the crash.
Thanks to Tomas Heinrich for the patch.
- bugfix: incorrect formatting of stats when CEE/Json format is used
This lead to ill-formed json being generated
- bugfix omfwd: new-style keepalive action parameters did not work
due to being inconsistently spelled inside the code. Note that legacy
parameters $keepalive... always worked
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/916
Thanks to Devin Christensen for alerting us and an analysis of the
root cause.
- bugfix: memory leaks in logctl utility
Detected by clang static analyzer. Note that these leaks CAN happen in
practice and may even be pretty large. This was probably never detected
because the tool is not often used.
- bugfix omrelp: fix segfault if no port action parameter was given
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/911
- bugfix imtcp: Messages not terminated by a NL were discarded
... upon connection termination.
Thanks to Tomas Heinrich for the patch.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 8.17.0 [v8-stable] 2016-03-08
- NEW REQUIREMENT: libfastjson
see also:
http://blog.gerhards.net/2015/12/rsyslog-and-liblognorm-will-switch-to.html
- new testbench requirement: faketime command line tool
This is used to generate a controlled environment for time-based tests; if
not available, tests will gracefully be skipped.
- improve json variable performance
We use libfastjson's alternative hash function, which has been
proven to be much faster than the default one (which stems
back to libjson-c). This should bring an overall performance
improvement for all operations involving variable processing.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/848
- new experimental feature: lookup table suport
Note that at this time, this is an experimental feature which is not yet
fully supported by the rsyslog team. It is introduced in order to gain
more feedback and to make it available as early as possible because many
people consider it useful.
Thanks to Janmejay Singh for implementing this feature
- new feature: dynamic statistics counters
which may be changed during rule processing
Thanks to Janmejay Singh for suggesting and implementing this feature
- new contributed plugin: omampq1 for AMQP 1.0-compliant brokers
Thanks to Ken Giusti for this module
- new set of UTC-based $now family of variables ($now-utc, $year-utc, ...)
- simplified locking when accessing message and local variables
this simlifies the code and slightly increases performance if such
variables are heavily accessed.
- new global parameter "debug.unloadModules"
This permits to disable unloading of modules, e.g. to make valgrind
reports more useful (without a need to recompile).
- timestamp handling: guard against invalid dates
We do not permit dates outside of the year 1970..2100
interval. Note that network-receivers do already guard
against this, so the new guard only guards against invalid
system time.
- imfile: add "trimlineoverbytes" input paramter
Thanks to github user JindongChen for the patch.
- ommongodb: add support for extended json format for dates
Thanks to Florian Bücklers for the patch.
- omjournal: add support for templates
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/770
Thanks to github user bobthemighty for the patch
- imuxsock: add "ruleset" input parameter
- testbench: framework improvement: configs can be included in test file
they do no longer need to be in a separate file, which saves a bit
of work when working with them. This is supported for simple tests with
a single running rsyslog instance
Thanks to Janmejay Singh for inspiring me with a similar method in
liblognorm testbench.
- imptcp: performance improvements
Thanks to Janmejay Singh for implementing this improvement
- made build compile (almost) without warnings
still some warnings are suppressed where this is currently required
- improve interface definition in some modules, e.g. mmanon, mmsequence
This is more an internal cleanup and should have no actual affect to
the end user.
- solaris build: MAXHOSTNAMELEN properly detected
- build system improvement: ability to detect old hiredis libs
This permits to automatically build omhiredis on systems where the
hiredis libs do not provide a pkgconfig file. Previsouly, this
required manual configuration.
Thanks to github user jaymell for the patch.
- rsgtutil: dump mode improvements
* auto-detect signature file type
* ability to dump hash chains for log extraction files
- build system: fix build issues with clang
clang builds often failed with a missing external symbol
"rpl_malloc". This was caused by checks in configure.ac,
which checked for specific GNU semantics. As we do not need
them (we never ask malloc for zero bytes), we can safely
remove the macros.
Note that we routinely run clang static analyer in CI and
it also detects such calls as invalid.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/834
- bugfix: unixtimestamp date format was incorrectly computed
The problem happened in leap year from March til then end
of year and healed itself at the begining of the next year.
During the problem period, the timestamp was 24 hours too low.
fixes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/830
- bugfix: date-ordinal date format was incorrectly computed
same root cause aus for unixtimestamp and same triggering
condition. During the affected perido, the ordinal was one
too less.
- bugfix: some race when shutting down input module threads
this had little, if at all, effect on real deployments as it resulted
in a small leak right before rsyslog termination. However, it caused
trouble with the testbench (and other QA tools).
Thanks to Peter Portante for the patch and both Peter and Janmejay
Singh for helping to analyze what was going on.
- bugfix tcpflood: did not handle connection drops correct in TLS case
note that tcpflood is a testbench too. The bug caused some testbench
instability, but had no effect on deplyments.
- bugfix: abort if global parameter value was wrong
If so, the abort happened during startup. Once started,
all was stable.
- bugfix omkafka: fix potential NULL pointer addressing
this happened when the topic cache was full and an entry
needed to be evicted
- bugfix impstats: @cee cookie was prefixed to wrong fromat (json vs. cee)
Thanks to Volker Fröhlich for the fix.
- bugfix imfile: fix race during startup that could lead to some duplication
If a to-be-monitored file was created after inotify was initialized
but before startup was completed, the first chunk of data from this
file could be duplicated. This should have happened very rarely in
practice, but caused occasional testbench failures.
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/791
- bugfix: potential loss of single message at queue shutdown
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/262
- bugfix: potential deadlock with heavy variable access
When making havy use of global, local and message variables, a deadlock
could occur. While it is extremly unlikely to happen, we have at least
seen one incarnation of this problem in practice.
- bugfix ommysql: on some platforms, serverport parameter had no effect
This was caused by an invalid code sequence which's outcome depends on
compiler settings.
- bugfix omelasticsearch: invalid pointer dereference
The actual practical impact is not clear. This came up when working
on compiler warnings.
Thanks to David Lang for the patch.
- bugfix omhiredis: serverport config parameter did not reliably work
depended on environment/compiler used to build
- bugfix rsgtutil: -h command line option did not work
Thanks to Henri Lakk for the patch.
- bugfix lexer: hex numbers were not properly represented
see: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/771
Thanks to Sam Hanes for the patch.
- bugfix TLS syslog: intermittent errors while sending data
Regression from commit 1394e0b. A symptom often seen was the message
"unexpected GnuTLS error -50 in nsd_gtls.c:530"
- bugfix imfile: abort on startup if no slash was present in file name param
Thanks to Brian Knox for the patch.
- bugfix rsgtutil: fixed abort when using short command line options
Thanks to Henri Lakk
- bugfix rsgtutil: invalid computation of log record extraction file
This caused verification to fail because the hash chain was actually
incorrect. Depended on the input data set.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/832
- bugfix build system: KSI components could only be build if in default path
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Version 8.16.0 [v8-stable] 2016-01-26
- rsgtutil: Added extraction support including loglines and hash chains.
More details on how to extract loglines can be found in the rsgtutil
manpage. See also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/561
- clean up doAction output module interface
We started with char * pointers, but used different types of pointers
over time. This lead to alignment warnings. In practice, I think this
should never cause any problems (at least there have been no reports
in the 7 or so years we do this), but it is not clean. The interface is
now cleaned up. We do this in a way that does not require modifications
to modules that just use string parameters. For those with message
parameters, have a look at e.g. mmutf8fix to see how easy the
required change is.
- new system properties for $NOW properties based on UTC
This permits to express current system time in UTC.
See also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/729
- impstats: support broken ElasticSearch JSON implementation
ES 2.0 no longer supports valid JSON and disallows dots inside names.
This adds a new "json-elasticsearch" format option which replaces
those dots by the bang ("!") character. So "discarded.full" becomes
"discarded!full".
This is a workaroud. A method that will provide more control over
replacements will be implemented some time in the future. For
details, see below-quoted issue tracker.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/713
- omelasticsearch: craft better URLs
Elasticsearch is confused by url's ending in a bare '?' or '&'. While
this is valid, those are no longer produced.
Thanks to Benno Evers for the patch.
- imfile: add experimental "reopenOnTruncate" parameter
Thanks to Matthew Wang for the patch.
- bugfix imfile: proper handling of inotify initialization failure
Thanks to Zachary Zhao for the patch.
- bugfix imfile: potential segfault due to improper handling of ev var
This occurs in inotify mode, only.
Thanks to Zachary Zhao and Peter Portante for the patch.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/718
- bugfix imfile: potential segfault under heavey load.
This occurs in inotify mode when using wildcards, only.
The root cause is dropped IN_IGNOPRED inotify events which be dropped
in circumstance of high input pressure and frequent rotation, and
according to wikipeida, they can also be dropped in other conditions.
Thanks to Zachary Zhao for the patch.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/723
- bugfix ommail: invalid handling of server response
if that response was split into different read calls. Could lead to
error-termination of send operation. Problem is pretty unlikely to
occur in standard setups (requires slow connection to SMTP server).
Thank to github user haixingood for the patch.
- bugfix omelasticsearch: custom serverport was ignored on some platforms
Thanks to Benno Evers for the patch.
- bugfix: tarball did not include some testbench files
Thanks to Thomas D. (whissi) for the patch.
- bugfix: memory misadressing during config parsing string template
This occurred if an (invalid) template option larger than 63 characters
was given.
Thanks to git hub user c6226 for the patch.
- bugfix imzmq: memory leak
Thanks to Jeremy Liang for the patch.
- bugfix imzmq: memory leak
Thanks to github user xushengping for the patch.
- bugfix omzmq: memory leak
Thanks to Jack Lin for the patch.
- some code improvement and cleanup
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Version 8.15.0 [v8-stable] 2015-12-15
- KSI Lib: Updated code to run with libksi 3.4.0.5
Also libksi 3.4.0.x is required to build rsyslog if ksi support
is enabled. New libpackages have been build as well.
- KSI utilities: Added option to ser publication url.
Since libksi 3.4.0.x, there is no default publication url anymore.
The publication url has to be set using the --publications-server
Parameter, otherwise the ksi signature cannot be verified. UserID
and UserKey can also be set by parameter now.
Closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/581
- KSI Lib: Fixed wrong TLV container for KSI signatures from 0905 to 0906.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/587
- KSI/GT Lib: Fixed multiple issues found using static analyzer
- performance improvement for configs with heavy use of JSON variables
Depending on the config, this can be a very big gain in performance.
- added pmpanngfw: contributed module for translating Palo Alto Networks logs.
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/573
Thanks to Luigi Mori for the contribution.
- testbench: Changed valgrind option for imtcp-tls-basic-vg.sh
For details see: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/569
- pmciscoios: support for asterisk before timestamp added
thanks to github user c0by for the patch
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/583
- solr external output plugin much enhanced
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/529
Thanks to Radu Gheorghe for the patch.
- omrabbitmq: improvements
thanks to Luigi Mori for the patch
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/580
- add support for libfastjson (as a replacement for json-c)
- KSI utilities: somewhat improved error messages
Thanks to Henri Lakk for the patch.
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/588
- pmciscoios: support for some format variations
Thanks to github user c0by for the patch
- support grok via new contributed module mmgrok
Thanks to 饶琛琳 (github user chenryn) for the contribution.
- omkafka: new statistics counter "maxoutqsize"
Thanks to 饶琛琳 (github user chenryn) for the contribution.
- improvments for 0mq modules:
* omczmq - suspend / Retry handling - the output plugin can now recover
from some error states due to issues with plugin startup or message sending
* omczmq - refactored topic handling code for ZMQ_PUB output to be a little
more efficient
* omczmq - added ability to set a timeout for sends
* omczmq - set topics can be in separate frame (default) or part of message
frame (configurable)
* omcmzq - code cleanup
* imczmq - code cleanup
* imczmq - fixed a couple of cases where vars could be used uninitialized
* imczmq - ZMQ_ROUTER support
* imczmq - Fix small memory leak from not freeing sockets when done with them
* allow creation of on demand ephemeral CurveZMQ certs for encryption.
Clients may specify clientcertpath="*" to indicate they want an on
demand generated cert.
Thanks to Brian Knox for the contributions.
- cleanup on code to unset a variable
under extreme cases (very, very unlikely), the old code could also lead
to errornous processing
- omelasticsearch: build on FreeBSD
Thanks to github user c0by for the patch
- pmciscoios: fix some small issues clang static analyzer detected
- testbench: many improvements and some new tests
note that there still is a number of tests which are somewhat racy
- overall code improvements thanks to clang static analyzer
- gnutls fix: Added possible fix for gnutls issue #575
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/575
Thanks to Charles Southerland for the patch
- bugfix omkafka: restore ability to build on all platforms
Undo commit aea09800643343ab8b6aa205b0f10a4be676643b
because that lead to build failures on various important platforms.
This means it currently is not possible to configure the location
of librdkafka, but that will affect far fewer people.
closes: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/596
- bugfix omkafka: fix potentially negative partition number
Thanks to Tait Clarridge for providing a patch.
- bugfix: solve potential race in creation of additional action workers
Under extreme circumstances, this could lead to segfault. Note that we
detected this problem thanks to ASAN address sanitzier in combination
with a very exterme testbench test. We do not think that this issue
was ever reported in practice.
- bugfix: potential memory leak in config parsing
Thanks to github user linmujia for the patch
- bugfix: small memory leak in loading template config
This happened when a plugin was used inside the template. Then, the
memory for the template name was never freed.
Thanks to github user xushengping for the fix.
- bugfix: fix extra whitespace in property expansions
Address off-by-one issues introduced in f3bd7a2 resulting in extra
whitespace in property expansions
Thanks to Matthew Gabeler-Lee for the patch.
- bugfix: mmfields leaked memory if very large messages were processed
detected by clang static analyzer
- bugfix: mmfields could add garbagge data to field
this happened when very large fields were to be processed.
Thanks to Peter Portante for reporting this.
- bugfix: omhttpfs now also compiles with older json-c lib
- bugfix: memory leak in (contributed) module omhttpfs
Thanks to git hub user c6226 for the patch.
- bugfix: parameter mismatch in error message for wrap() function
- bugfix: parameter mismatch in error message for random() function
- bugfix: divide by zero if max() function was provided zero
- bugfix: invalid mutex handling in omfile async write mode
could lead to segfault, even though highly unlikely (caught by
testbench on a single platform)
- bugfix: fix inconsistent number processing
Unfortunately, previous versions of the rule engine tried to
support oct and hex, but that wasn't really the case.
Everything based on JSON was just dec-converted. As this was/is
the norm, we fix that inconsistency by always using dec.
Luckly, oct and hex support was never documented and could
probably only have been activated by constant numbers.
- bugfix: timezone() object: fix NULL pointer dereference
This happened during startup when the offset or id parameter was not
given. Could lead to a segfault at startup.
Detected by clang static analyzer.
- bugfix omfile: memory addressing error if very long outchannel name used
Thanks to github user c6226 for the patch.
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Version 8.14.0 [v8-stable] 2015-11-03
- Added possibility to customize librdkafka location
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/502
Thanks to Matthew Wang for the patch.
- add property "rawmsg-after-pri"
- bugfix: potential misadresseing in imfile
Could happen when wildcards were used.
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/532
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/534
Thanks to zhangdaoling for the bugfix.
- bugfix: re_extract RainerScript function did not work
Thanks to Janmejay Singh for the patch
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Version 8.13.0 [v8-stable] 2015-09-22
- ZeroMQ enhancements:
* Added the ability to set a static publishing topic per action as an
alternative to constructing topics with templates
Contributor: Luca Bocassi
* ZMQ_PUB socket now defaults to bind and ZMQ_SUB socket now defaults to
connect - Contributor: Luca Bocassi
- Redis enhancements:
* Can now LPUSH to a Redis list in "queue" mode - Contributor: Brian Knox
* Can now PUBLISH to a Redis channel in "publish" mode
Contributor: Brian Knox
- build requirement for rsyslog/mmnormalize is now liblognorm 1.1.2 or above
- mmnormalize: liblognorm error messages are now emitted via regular
rsyslog error reporting mechanism (aka "are now logged")
This is possible due to a new API in liblognorm 1.1.2;
Note that the amount of error messages depends on the version of
liblognorm used.
- add support for TCP client side keep-alives
Thanks to github user tinselcity for the patch.
- bugfix: imtcp/TLS hangs on dropped packets
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/318
Thanks to github user tinselcity for the patch.
- bugfix testbench: some tests using imptcp are run if module is disabled
Thanks to Michael Biebl for reporting this
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/524
- bugfix omkafka: Fixes a bug not accepting new messages anymore.
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/472
Thanks to Janmejay Singh
- bugfix: Parallel build issue "cannot find ../runtime/.libs/librsyslog.a:
No such file or directory" (#479) fixed.
Thanks to Thomas D. (Whissi) for the patch.
- bugfix: Added missing mmpstructdata testfiles into makefile.
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/484
- bugfix: Reverted FIX for issue #392 as it had unexpected side effects.
The new fix duplicates the Listener object for static files (like
done for dynamic files already), resolving issue #392 and #490.
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/490
- bugfix: issues in queue subsystem if syncqueuefiles was enabled
* Error 14 was generated on the .qi file directory handle.
As the .qi filestream does not have a directory set, fsync
was called on an empty directory causing a error 14 in debug log.
* When queue files existed on startup, the bSyncQueueFiles
strm property was not set to 1. This is now done in the
qqueueLoadPersStrmInfoFixup function.
- bugfix/testbench: tcpflood tool could abort when random data was added
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/506
Thanks to Louis Bouchard for the fix
- rscryutil: Added support to decrypt a not closed log file.
Thanks to wizard1024 for the patch.
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Version 8.12.0 [v8-stable] 2015-08-11
- Harmonize resetConfigVariables values and defaults
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/413
Thanks to Tomas Heinrich for the patch.
- GT/KSI: fix some issues in signature file format and add conversion tool
The file format is incompatible to previous format, but tools have been
upgraded to handle both and also an option been added to convert from
old to new format.
- bugfix: ommysql did not work when gnutls was enabled
as it turned out, this was due to a check for GnuTLS functions
with the side-effect that
AC_CHECK_LIB, by default, adds the lib to LIBS, if there is no
explicit action, what was the case here. So everything was now
linked against GnuTLS, which in turn made ommysql fail.
Thanks to Thomas D. (whissi) for the analysis of the ommysql/gnutls
problem and Thomas Heinrich for pointing out that AC_CHECK_LIB might
be the culprit.
- bugfix omfile: potential memory leak on file close
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/423
Thanks to Robert Schiele for the patch.
- bugfix omfile: potential race in dynafile detection/creation
This could lead to a segfault.
Thanks to Tomas Heinrich for the patch.
- bugfix omfile: Fix race-condition detection in path-creation code
The affected code is used to detect a race condition in between
testing for the existence of a directory and creating it if it didn't
exist. The variable tracking the number of attempts wasn't reset for
subsequent elements in the path, thus limiting the number of
reattempts to one per the whole path, instead of one per each path
element.
This solution was provided by Martin Poole.
- bugfix parser subsystem: potential misadressing in SanitizeMsg()
could lead to a segfault
Thanks to Tomas Heinrich for the patch.
- imfile: files moved outside of directory are now (properly) handled
- bugfix: imfile: segfault when using startmsg.regex if first log line
doesn't match
Thanks to Ciprian Hacman for the patch.
- bugfix imfile: file table was corrupted when on file deletion
This could happen when a file that was statically configured (not via an
wildcard) was deleted.
- bugfix ompgsql: transaction were improperly handled
now transaction support is solidly disabled until we have enough requests
to implement it again. Module still works fine in single insert mode.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/399
- bugfix mmjsonparse: memory leak if non-cee-json message is processed
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/383
Thanks to Anton Matveenko for the patch
- testbench: remove raciness from UDP based tests
- testbench: added bash into all scripts makign it mandatory
- bugfix testbench: Fixed problem building syslog_caller util when
liblogging-stdlog is not available.
Thanks to Louis Bouchard for the patch
- bugfix rscryutil.1: Added fix checking for generate_man_pages condition
Thanks to Radovan Sroka for the patch
- bugfix freebsd console: \n (NL) is prepended with \r (CR) in console
output on freebsd only. For more details see here:
https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/372
Thanks to AlexandreFenyo for the patch
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Version 8.11.0 [v8-stable] 2015-06-30
- new signature provider for Keyless Signature Infrastructure (KSI) added
- build system: re-enable use of "make distcheck"
- add new signature provider for Kesless Signature Infrastructure (KSI)
This has also been added to existing tooling; KSI is kind of v2 of
the Guardtime functionality and has been added in the appropriate
places.
- bugfix imfile: regex multiline mode ignored escapeLF option
Thanks to Ciprian Hacman for reporting the problem
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/370
- bugfix omkafka: fixed several concurrency issues, most of them related
to dynamic topics.
Thanks to Janmejay Singh for the patch.
- bugfix: execonlywhenpreviousissuspended did not work correctly
This especially caused problems when an action with this attribute was
configured with an action queue.
- bugfix core engine: ensured global variable atomicity
This could lead to problems in RainerScript, as well as probably in other
areas where global variables are used inside rsyslog. I wouldn't outrule
it could lead to segfaults.
Thanks to Janmejay Singh for the patch.
- bugfix imfile: segfault when using startmsg.regex because of empty log line
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/357
Thanks to Ciprian Hacman for the patch.
- bugfix: build problem on Solaris
Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen for reporting this and getting us up to
speed on the openCWS build farm.
- bugfix: build system strndup was used even if not present
now added compatibility function. This came up on Solaris builds.
Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen for reporting the problem.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/347
- bugfix imjournal: do not pass empty messages to rsyslog core
this causes a crash of the daemon
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/412
Thanks to Tomas Heinrich for the patch.
- bugfix imjournal: cosmetic memory leak
very small and an shutdown only, so did not affect operations
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/411
Thanks to Tomas Heinrich for the patch.
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Version 8.10.0 [v8-stable] 2015-05-19
- imfile: add capability to process multi-line messages based on regex
input parameter "endmsg.regex" was added for that purpose. The new
mode provides much more power in processing different multiline-formats.
- pmrfc3164: add new parameters
* "detect.yearAfterTimestamp"
This supports timestamps as generated e.g. by some Aruba Networks
equipment.
* "permit.squareBracesInHostname"
Permits to use "hostnames" in the form of "[127.0.0.1]"; also seen in
Aruba Networks equipment, but we strongly assume this can also happen
in other cases, especially with IPv6.
- supplementary groups are now set when dropping privileges
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/296
Thanks to Zach Lisinski for the patch.
- imfile: added brace glob expansion to wildcard
Thanks to Zach Lisinski for the patch.
- zmq: add the ability for zeromq input and outputs to advertise their
presence on UDP via the zbeacon API.
Thanks to Brian Knox for the contribution.
- added omhttpfs: contributed module for writing to HDFS via HTTP
Thanks to sskaje for the contribution.
- Configure option "--disable-debug-symbols" added which is disabled per
default. If you set the new option, configure won't set the appropriate
compiler flag to generate debug symbols anymore.
- When building from git source we now require rst2man and yacc (or a
replacement like bison).
That isn't any new requirement, we only added missing configure checks.
- Configure option "--enable-generate-man-pages" is now disabled for non git
source builds per default but enforced when building from git source.
- mmpstrucdata: some code cleanup
removed lots of early development debug outputs
- bugfix imuxsock: fix a memory leak that happened with large messages
... when annotation was enabled.
Thanks to github user c6226 for the patch
- bugfix omhttpfs: memory leak
Thanks to github user c6226 for the patch
- bugfix imuxsock: fix a crash when setting a hostname
Setting a hostname via the legacy directive would lead to a crash
during shutdown caused by a double-free.
Thanks to Tomas Heinrich for the patch.
- bugfix: memory leak in mmpstrucdata
Thanks to Grégoire Seux for reporting this issue.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/310
- bugfix (minor): default action name: assigned number was one off
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/340
Thanks to Tomas Heinrich for the patch.
- bugfix: memory leak in imfile
A small leak happened each time a new file was monitored based on
a wildcard. Depending on the rate of file creation, this could result
in a serious memory leak.
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Version 8.9.0 [v8-stable] 2015-04-07
- omprog: add option "hup.forward" to forwards HUP to external plugins
This was suggested by David Lang so that external plugins (and other
programs) can also do HUP-specific processing. The default is not
to forward HUP, so no change of behavior by default.
- imuxsock: added capability to use regular parser chain
Previously, this was a fixed format, that was known to be spoken on
the system log socket. This also adds new parameters:
- sysSock.useSpecialParser module parameter
- sysSock.parseHostname module parameter
- useSpecialParser input parameter
- parseHostname input parameter
- 0mq: improvements in input and output modules
See module READMEs, part is to be considered experimental.
Thanks to Brian Knox for the contribution.
- imtcp: add support for ip based bind for imtcp -> param "address"
Thanks to github user crackytsi for the patch.
- bugfix: MsgDeserialize out of sync with MsgSerialize for StrucData
This lead to failure of disk queue processing when structured data was
present. Thanks to github user adrush for the fix.
- bugfix imfile: partial data loss, especially in readMode != 0
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/144
- bugfix: potential large memory consumption with failed actions
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/253
- bugfix: omudpspoof: invalid default send template in RainerScript format
The file format template was used, which obviously does not work for
forwarding. Thanks to Christopher Racky for alerting us.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/268
- bugfix: size-based legacy config statements did not work properly
on some platforms, they were incorrectly handled, resulting in all
sorts of "interesting" effects (up to segfault on startup)
- build system: added option --without-valgrind-testbench
... which provides the capability to either enforce or turn off
valgrind use inside the testbench. Thanks to whissi for the patch.
- rsyslogd: fix misleading typos in error messages
Thanks to Ansgar Püster for the fixes.
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Version 8.8.0 [v8-stable] 2015-02-24
- omkafka: add support for dynamic topics and auto partitioning
Thanks to Tait Clarridge for the patches.
- imtcp/imptcp: support for broken Cisco ASA TCP syslog framing
- omfwd: more detailled error messages in case of UDP send error
- TLS syslog: enable capability to turn on GnuTLS debug logging
This provides better diagnostics in hard-to-diagnose cases,
especially when GnuTLS is extra-picky about certificates.
- bugfix: $AbortOnUncleanConfig did not work
- improve rsyslogd -v output and error message with meta information
version number is now contained in error message and build platform in
version output. This helps to gets rid of the usual "which version"
question on mailing list, support forums, etc...
- bugfix imtcp: octet-counted framing cannot be turned off
- bugfix: build problems on Illuminos
Thanks to Andrew Stormont for the patch
- bugfix: invalid data size for iMaxLine global property
It was defined as int, but inside the config system it was declared as
size type, which uses int64_t. With legacy config statements, this could
lead to misadressing, which usually meant the another config variable was
overwritten (depending on memory layout).
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/205
- bugfix: negative values for maxMessageSize global parameter were permitted
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Version 8.7.0 [v8-stable] 2015-01-13
- add message metadata "system" to msg object
this permits to store metadata alongside the message
- imfile: add support for "filename" metadata
this is useful in cases where wildcards are used
- imptcp: make stats counter names consistent with what imudp, imtcp uses
- added new module "omkafka" to support writing to Apache Kafka
- omfwd: add new "udp.senddelay" parameter
- mmnormalize enhancements
Thanks to Janmejay Singh for the patch.
- RainerScript "foreach" iterator and array reading support
Thanks to Janmejay Singh for the patch.
- now requires liblognorm >= 1.0.2
- add support for systemd >= 209 library names
- BSD "ntp" facility (value 12) is now also supported in filter
Thanks to Douglas K. Rand of Iteris, Inc. for the patch.
Note: this patch was released under ASL 2.0 (see email-conversation).
- bugfix: global(localHostName="xxx") was not respected in all modules
- bugfix: emit correct error message on config-file-not-found
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/173
- bugfix: impstats emitted invalid JSON format (if JSON was selected)
- bugfix: (small) memory leak in omfile's outchannel code
Thanks to Koral Ilgun for reporting this issue.
- bugfix: imuxsock did not deactivate some code not supported by platform
Among potential other problemns, this caused build failure under Solaris.
Note that this build problem just made a broader problem appear that so
far always existed but was not visible.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/185
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Version 8.6.0 [v8-stable] 2014-12-02
NOTE: This version also incorporates all changes and enhancements made for
v8.5.0, but in a stable release. For details see immediately below.
- configuration-setting rsyslogd command line options deprecated
For most of them, there are now proper configuration objects. Some few
will be completely dropped if nobody insists on them. Additional info at
http://blog.gerhards.net/2014/11/phasing-out-legacy-command-line-options.html
- new and enhanced plugins for 0mq. These are currently experimantal.
Thanks to Brian Knox who contributed the modules and is their author.
- empty rulesets have been permitted. They no longer raise a syntax error.
- add parameter -N3 to enable config check of partial config file
Use for config include files. Disables checking if any action exists at
all.
- rsyslogd -e option has finally been removed
It is deprectated since many years.
- testbench improvements
Testbench is now more robust and has additional tests.
- testbench is now by default disabled
To enable it, use --enable-testbench. This was done as the testbench now
does better checking if required modules are present and this in turn
would lead to configure error messages where non previously were if we
would leave --enable-testbench on by default. Thus we have turned it off.
This should not be an issue for those few testbench users.
- add new RainerScript functions warp() and replace()
Thanks to Singh Janmejay for the patch.
- mmnormalize can now also work on a variable
Thanks to Singh Janmejay for the patch.