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    RADIUS authentication failing (timed out) and dumping core

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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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      That's in 24.11? Looks like it's working but the query you're using in invalid. I won't pretend to be any sort of expert with dtrace though!

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        opoplawski @stephenw10
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        @stephenw10 24.03 - looks like I was stuck on previous stable for some reason. I'll try to update soon.

        Seems to me like dtrace is for kernel stuff, not just C-library tracing, but I'm completely unfamiliar with dtrace.

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          Hmm, OK you're seeing the same error in radius from all three versions?

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            Konstanti @opoplawski
            last edited by Konstanti

            @opoplawski
            DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework ported from Solaris. DTrace provides a powerful infrastructure that permits administrators, developers, and service personnel to concisely answer arbitrary questions about the behavior of the operating system and user programs.

            here is an example of working in user space, maybe you need to know the name of the process that calls the necessary functions

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            or

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              opoplawski @Konstanti
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              @Konstanti As I understand it, I would need probes for the php radius library in order to trace it. When I look at the output of dtrace -l to show the available probes I don't see anything relevant to what I want to trace. There are kernel functions, malloc stuff, syscalls (but I already have that with truss), etc.

              It appears that php can be built with dtrace support, but it appears that it hasn't in pfSense Plus. But again what I really want to trace is php-pecl-radius

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                Konstanti @opoplawski
                last edited by Konstanti

                @opoplawski

                Hi
                You were right, I was wrong, dtrace does not work with all functions. Therefore, as a result, we see a probe error

                P.S.
                I think I've found a solution for the userland programs

                1. we find the pid of the php-fpm process
                  ps -awx | grep php
                  342 - Ss 8:55.06 php-fpm: master process (/usr/local/lib/php-fpm.conf) (php-fpm)
                  23960 - I 3:31.30 php-fpm: pool nginx (php-fpm)
                  27761 - I 2:07.14 php-fpm: pool nginx (php-fpm)
                  31652 - I 3:16.94 php-fpm: pool nginx (php-fpm)
                  37038 - I 3:12.25 php-fpm: pool nginx (php-fpm)
                  46849 - I 0:55.34 php-fpm: pool nginx (php-fpm)
                  55575 - I 3:18.29 php-fpm: pool nginx (php-fpm)
                  94877 - I 2:03.82 php-fpm: pool nginx (php-fpm)

                2 using dtrace
                dtrace -qn 'pid342:radius.so::entry { @[probefunc] = count();}'

                dtrace -l | grep pid

                70870 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_put_vendor_addr entry
                70871 pid342 radius.so rad_close entry
                70872 pid342 radius.so rad_create_request entry
                70873 pid342 radius.so rad_put_vendor_int entry
                70874 pid342 radius.so rad_demangle entry
                70875 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_get_vendor_attr entry
                70876 pid342 radius.so rad_strerror entry
                70877 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_send_request entry
                70878 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_get_tagged_attr_tag entry
                70879 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_demangle entry
                70880 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_request_authenticator entry
                70881 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_put_int entry
                70882 pid342 radius.so rad_salt_value entry
                70883 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_salt_encrypt_attr entry
                70884 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_strerror entry
                70885 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_config entry
                70886 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_cvt_int entry
                70887 pid342 radius.so rad_acct_open entry
                70888 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_cvt_string entry
                70889 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_server_secret entry
                70890 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_get_tagged_attr_data entry
                70891 pid342 radius.so rad_put_vendor_attr entry
                70892 pid342 radius.so rad_send_request entry
                70893 pid342 radius.so rad_put_vendor_addr entry
                70894 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_add_server entry
                70895 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_close entry
                70896 pid342 radius.so rad_get_vendor_attr entry
                70897 pid342 radius.so rad_init_send_request entry
                70898 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_auth_open entry
                70899 pid342 radius.so _radius_close entry
                70900 pid342 radius.so rad_continue_send_request entry
                70901 pid342 radius.so get_module entry
                70902 pid342 radius.so rad_put_int entry
                70903 pid342 radius.so rad_put_attr entry
                70904 pid342 radius.so rad_auth_open entry
                70905 pid342 radius.so rad_get_attr entry
                70906 pid342 radius.so rad_cvt_int entry
                70907 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_acct_open entry
                70908 pid342 radius.so rad_cvt_addr entry
                70909 pid342 radius.so rad_put_addr entry
                70910 pid342 radius.so rad_server_secret entry
                70911 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_put_attr entry
                70912 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_get_attr entry
                70913 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_cvt_addr entry
                70914 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_put_addr entry
                70915 pid342 radius.so zm_startup_radius entry
                70916 pid342 radius.so rad_config entry
                70917 pid342 radius.so zm_info_radius entry
                70918 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_demangle_mppe_key entry
                70919 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_create_request entry
                70920 pid342 radius.so rad_open entry
                70921 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_put_vendor_int entry
                70922 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_put_string entry
                70923 pid342 radius.so rad_cvt_string entry
                70924 pid342 radius.so rad_demangle_mppe_key entry
                70925 pid342 radius.so rad_put_string entry
                70926 pid342 radius.so rad_request_authenticator entry
                70927 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_put_vendor_string entry
                70928 pid342 radius.so zif_radius_put_vendor_attr entry
                70929 pid342 radius.so zm_shutdown_radius entry
                70930 pid342 radius.so rad_put_vendor_string entry
                70931 pid342 radius.so rad_add_server entry

                for example ,

                dtrace -n 'pid342:radius.so:rad_send_request:return {printf("=>%d",arg1)}'
                dtrace: description 'pid342:radius.so:rad_send_request:return ' matched 1 probe

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                  opoplawski @Konstanti
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                  @Konstanti well, that was an interesting if ultimately unfruitful direction, thanks. I created the following script to create a dtruss script:

                  #!/usr/local/bin/perl
                  
                  open(PS,'ps -awx |');
                  while (<PS>) {
                    next unless /php-fpm: pool/;
                    ($pid) = split;
                    push(@pids, $pid);
                  }
                  close(PS);
                  
                  print "syscall::recvfrom:return\n";
                  print "/pid == " . join(" || pid == ", @pids) . "/\n";
                  print "{\n";
                  print 'printf("\n%d:\trecvfrom() = %d\n", pid, arg1);' . "\n";
                  print "}\n";
                  
                  my $last_pid = pop(@pids);
                  foreach $pid (@pids) {
                     print "pid" . $pid . ":radius.so::entry,\n";
                  }
                  print "pid" . $last_pid . ":radius.so::entry\n";
                  print "{\n";
                  print 'printf("%d:\t%s(%d, 0x%x, %4d)\t", pid, probefunc, arg0, arg1, arg2);' . "\n";
                  print "}\n";
                  
                  foreach $pid (@pids) {
                     print "pid" . $pid . ":radius.so:rad_strerror:return,\n";
                  }
                  print "pid" . $last_pid . ":radius.so:rad_streeor:return\n";
                  print "{\n";
                  print 'printf("(%d)\t = %s\n", pid, copyinstr(arg1));' . "\n";
                  print "}\n";
                  
                  foreach $pid (@pids) {
                     print "pid" . $pid . ":radius.so::return,\n";
                  }
                  print "pid" . $last_pid . ":radius.so::return\n";
                  print "{\n";
                  print 'printf("(%d)\t = %d\n", pid, arg1);' . "\n";
                  print "}\n";
                  

                  It produces something like:

                  syscall::recvfrom:return
                  /pid == 14656 || pid == 30511 || pid == 31820 || pid == 53410 || pid == 74857 || pid == 99423 || pid == 99617/
                  {
                  printf("\n%d:\trecvfrom() = %d\n", pid, arg1);
                  }
                  pid14656:radius.so::entry,
                  pid30511:radius.so::entry,
                  pid31820:radius.so::entry,
                  pid53410:radius.so::entry,
                  pid74857:radius.so::entry,
                  pid99423:radius.so::entry,
                  pid99617:radius.so::entry
                  {
                  printf("%d:\t%s(%d, 0x%x, %4d)\t", pid, probefunc, arg0, arg1, arg2);
                  }
                  pid14656:radius.so:rad_strerror:return,
                  pid30511:radius.so:rad_strerror:return,
                  pid31820:radius.so:rad_strerror:return,
                  pid53410:radius.so:rad_strerror:return,
                  pid74857:radius.so:rad_strerror:return,
                  pid99423:radius.so:rad_strerror:return,
                  pid99617:radius.so:rad_streeror:return
                  {
                  printf("(%d)\t = %s\n", pid, copyinstr(arg1));
                  }
                  pid14656:radius.so::return,
                  pid30511:radius.so::return,
                  pid31820:radius.so::return,
                  pid53410:radius.so::return,
                  pid74857:radius.so::return,
                  pid99423:radius.so::return,
                  pid99617:radius.so::return
                  {
                  printf("(%d)\t = %d\n", pid, arg1);
                  }
                  

                  And I got (cleaned up):

                  53410:  rad_send_request(45709006907392, 0x299275926a00,   80)
                  53410:  recvfrom() = 244
                  53410:  recvfrom() = -1
                  53410:  recvfrom() = 244
                  53410:  recvfrom() = -1
                  53410:  recvfrom() = 244
                  53410:  recvfrom() = -1
                  (53410)  = 4294967295
                  53410:  rad_strerror(45709006907392, 0x299275926a00,   80)   (53410)  = Operation timed out
                  

                  Which is pretty much what I knew before. Still no idea why rad_send_request() does not accept the response that it gets.

                  On the up side, I do know a lot more know about dtrace.

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                    Konstanti @opoplawski
                    last edited by Konstanti

                    @opoplawski
                    Hi
                    , what happens when the recvfrom function is executed has been known for a long time

                    the question is what happens when the client receives a response (244 bytes)
                    during the execution of this part of the program, the

                    rad_send_request
                    rad_continue_send_request
                    rad_init_send_request
                    is_valid_response

                    functions are used

                    the most interesting function, in my opinion, is
                    is_valid_response

                    but, apparently, it is impossible to get the result of its execution, this is an internal function that dtrace does not "see".

                    you can try to see what result the rest of the functions from this list return using dtrace

                    print 'printf("(%d)\t %s= %d\n", pid,probefunc,arg1);' . "\n";

                    I also recommend using tcpdump to analyze traffic on port 1812

                    suspect that the problem is precisely the result that the is_valid_response function returns
                    in case of an error, it returns 0 and forces the program to receive data from the socket (the second attempt to call the recvfrom function), as expected, the socket is empty and the function returns an error 35 EAGAIN

                    53410: recvfrom() = 244
                    recvfrom(9,"^B\M-)\0\M-t\rv\M-]O~\M-$}\M-4~"...,4096,MSG_WAITALL,{ AF_INET
                    RADIUS:1812 },0x820d022fc) = 244 (0xf4)

                    53410: recvfrom() = -1
                    recvfrom(9,0x37bbc7deab51,4096,MSG_WAITALL,0x820d02300,0x820d022fc) ERR#35
                    'Resource temporarily unavailable'

                    unfortunately, I do not find in the library code (radius.so) any implementation of zeroing the data reception buffer before calling the recvfrom function. Therefore, it is not known what is in the buffer after receiving the data,
                    is_valid_response

                    1. Check the source address
                      if ok, then
                    2. Check the message length
                      if ok , then
                    3. Check the response authenticator
                      if ok, the packet has been verified (return 1)
                      otherwise (return 0)

                    it is necessary to use tcpdump to analyze the radius server response

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                    • GertjanG
                      Gertjan @Konstanti
                      last edited by

                      @Konstanti said in RADIUS authentication failing (timed out) and dumping core:

                      it is necessary to use tcpdump to analyze the radius server response

                      Don't forget
                      radtest
                      radsniff
                      radsniff

                      and
                      running radius manually

                      radiusd -X
                      

                      (kill in first in the GUI then start it on the console or SSH )

                      No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                      Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                        opoplawski @Gertjan
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                        @Gertjan So I used both tcpdump and radsniff to look at packet traces, but I can't see any issues. In both cases (working and non-working) the radius server sends back an Access-Accept message with the same set of fields.

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