See bug 2850 for rationale: it appears that on some busy exits, the OS
decides that every single port is now unusable because they have been
all used too recently.
Previously we ensured that it would get called periodically by doing
it from inside the code that added microdescriptors. That won't work
though: it would interfere with our code that tried to read microdescs
from disk initially. Instead, we should consider rebuilding the cache
periodically, and on startup.
Previously on 0.2.2, we'd never clean the cache. Now that we can
clean it, we want to add a condition to rebuild it: that should happen
whenever we have dropped enough microdescriptors that we could save a
lot of space.
No changes file, since 0.2.3 doesn't need one and 0.2.2 already has some
changes files for the backport of the microdesc_clean_cahce() function.
Previously it would erroneously return true if ListenAddr was set for
a client port, even if that port itself was 0. This would give false
positives, which were not previously harmful... but which were about
to become.
A v0 HS authority stores v0 HS descriptors in the same descriptor
cache that its HS client functionality uses. Thus, if the HS
authority operator clears its client HS descriptor cache, ALL v0
HS descriptors will be lost. That would be bad.
If the user sent a SIGNAL NEWNYM command after we fetched a rendezvous
descriptor, while we were building the introduction-point circuit, we
would give up entirely on trying to connect to the hidden service.
Original patch by rransom slightly edited to go into 0.2.1
Previously, it would remove every trackhostexits-derived mapping
*from* xyz.<exitname>.exit; it was supposed to remove every
trackhostexits-derived mapping *to* xyz.<exitname>.exit.
Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc: fixes an XXX020 added while staring at bug-1090
issues.
Now we believe it to be the case that we never build a circuit for our
stream that has an unsuitable exit, so we'll never need to use such
a circuit. The risk is that we have some code that builds the circuit,
but now we refuse to use it, meaning we just build a bazillion circuits
and ignore them all.
This looked at first like another fun way around our node selection
logic: if we had introduction circuits, and we wound up building too
many, we would turn extras into general-purpose circuits. But when we
did so, we wouldn't necessarily check whether the general-purpose
circuits conformed to our node constraints. For example, the last
node could totally be in ExcludedExitNodes and we wouldn't have cared...
...except that the circuit should already be internal, so it won't get user
streams attached to it, so the transition should generally be allowed.
Add an assert to make sure we're right about this, and have it not
check whether ExitNodes is set, since that's irrelevant to internal
circuits.
IOW, if we were using TrackExitHosts, and we added an excluded node or
removed a node from exitnodes, we wouldn't actually remove the mapping
that points us at the new node.
Also, note with an XXX022 comment a place that I think we are looking
at the wrong string.
The routerset_equal function explicitly handles NULL inputs, so
there's no need to check inputs for NULL before calling it.
Also fix a bug in routerset_equal where a non-NULL routerset with no
entries didn't get counted as equal to a NULL routerset. This was
untriggerable, I think, but potentially annoying down the road.
ExcludeExitNodes foo now means that foo.exit doesn't work. If
StrictNodes is set, then ExcludeNodes foo also overrides foo.exit.
foo.exit , however, still works even if foo is not listed in ExitNodes.
This once maybe made sense when ExitNodes meant "Here are 3 exits;
use them all", but now it more typically means "Here are 3
countries; exit from there." Using non-Fast/Stable exits created a
potential partitioning opportunity and an annoying stability
problem.
(Don't worry about the case where all of our ExitNodes are non-Fast
or non-Stable: we handle that later in the function by retrying with
need_capacity and need_uptime set to 0.)
Nick Mathewson
Roger Dingledine
Sebastian Hahn
Robert Ransom
cypherpunks