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Bug #8538

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ISC DHCP provider does not respect expired and free leases

Added by Lukas Zapletal over 9 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Category:
DHCP
Target version:
Difficulty:
Triaged:
Fixed in Releases:
Found in Releases:

Description

It turns out that ISC DHCP parser does not respect both expired and free leases. To give some basic background, ISC daemon is only appending into the file during runtime (it does reformat it explicitly from time to time, by default only during start). This means that leases are only appended and if a lease is released explicitly, new lease entry is added with the "free" binding state. Our codebase only skips this record, but if the lease was previously "active", it is not removed and Foreman sees the lease still as "active" which is causing conflicts during Discovery (OpenStack installer).

More than that, Foreman Proxy somehow incorrectly parse date. Leases expire also via "ends" entry, which is also not respected by the proxy. Adding the following in our test/fixtures/dhcp/dhcp.leases causes tests to fail:

# The following six leases are from booting a real-world DELL hardware with
# PXE using Foreman Discovery. Fist, a BIOS/UEFI DHCP request is sent along
# with an UID:
lease 192.168.122.81 {
  starts 4 2014/10/16 10:14:40;
  ends 4 2014/10/16 10:24:40;
  tstp 4 2014/10/16 10:24:40;
  cltt 4 2014/10/16 10:14:40;
  binding state free;
  hardware ethernet ec:f4:bb:c6:ca:fe;
}
lease 192.168.122.81 {
  starts 4 2014/10/16 12:53:16;
  ends 4 2014/10/16 13:03:16;
  cltt 4 2014/10/16 12:53:16;
  binding state active;
  next binding state free;
  hardware ethernet ec:f4:bb:c6:ca:fe;
  uid "\000DELLX\000\020W\200L\310\300O022";
}
# And it is released by the client.
lease 192.168.122.81 {
  starts 4 2014/10/16 12:53:16;
  ends 4 2014/10/16 12:54:03;
  tstp 4 2014/10/16 12:54:03;
  cltt 4 2014/10/16 12:53:16;
  binding state free;
  hardware ethernet ec:f4:bb:c6:ca:fe;
  uid "\000DELLX\000\020W\200L\310\300O022";
}
# Then Dracut acquires another lease, now without the UID:
lease 192.168.122.88 {
  starts 4 2014/10/16 12:54:03;
  ends 4 2014/10/16 13:04:03;
  cltt 4 2014/10/16 12:54:03;
  binding state active;
  next binding state free;
  hardware ethernet ec:f4:bb:c6:ca:fe;
}
# And then OS acquires another lease, now without the UID but with
# a client-hostname set:
lease 192.168.122.89 {
  starts 4 2014/10/16 12:55:22;
  ends 4 2014/10/16 13:05:22;
  cltt 4 2014/10/16 12:55:22;
  binding state active;
  next binding state free;
  hardware ethernet ec:f4:bb:c6:ca:fe;
  client-hostname "localhost";
}
lease 192.168.122.89 {
  starts 4 2014/10/16 12:59:40;
  ends 4 2199/01/01 00:00:01;
  cltt 4 2014/10/16 12:59:40;
  binding state active;
  next binding state free;
  hardware ethernet ec:f4:bb:c6:ca:fe;
  client-hostname "localhost";
}
# This section should be parsed as follows:
# .81 - free
# .88 - free (still active, but expired to this date)
# .89 - active (very long lease set with expiration in 2199)

As you can see, the test fails with returned value of:

  1) Failure:
DhcpApiTest#test_api_02_get_network [/home/lzap/work/smart-proxy/test/dhcp/dhcp_api_test.rb:65]:
<{"reservations"=>
  [{"hostname"=>"test.example.com",
    "ip"=>"192.168.122.1",
    "mac"=>"00:11:bb:cc:dd:ee"}],
 "leases"=>
  [{"ip"=>"192.168.122.2",
    "mac"=>"00:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee",
    "starts"=>"2014-07-12 10:08:29 UTC",
    "ends"=>nil,
    "state"=>"active"}]}> expected but was
<{"reservations"=>
  [{"hostname"=>"test.example.com",
    "ip"=>"192.168.122.1",
    "mac"=>"00:11:bb:cc:dd:ee"}],
 "leases"=>
  [{"ip"=>"192.168.122.2",
    "mac"=>"00:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee",
    "starts"=>"2014-07-12 10:08:29 UTC",
    "ends"=>nil,
    "state"=>"active"},
   {"ip"=>"192.168.122.81",
    "mac"=>"ec:f4:bb:c6:ca:fe",
    "starts"=>"2014-10-16 12:53:16 UTC",
    "ends"=>"2014-10-16 13:03:16 UTC",
    "state"=>"active"},
   {"ip"=>"192.168.122.88",
    "mac"=>"ec:f4:bb:c6:ca:fe",
    "starts"=>"2014-10-16 12:54:03 UTC",
    "ends"=>"2014-10-16 13:04:03 UTC",
    "state"=>"active"},
   {"ip"=>"192.168.122.89",
    "mac"=>"ec:f4:bb:c6:ca:fe",
    "starts"=>"2014-10-16 12:55:22 UTC",
    "ends"=>"2014-10-16 13:05:22 UTC",
    "state"=>"active"},
   {"ip"=>"192.168.122.89",
    "mac"=>"ec:f4:bb:c6:ca:fe",
    "starts"=>"2014-10-16 12:59:40 UTC",
    "ends"=>"2199-01-01 00:00:01 UTC",
    "state"=>"active"}]}>.

Both .81 and .88 are considered free by ISC DHCP (see dhcpd.leases man page for more details) but Foreman Proxy does report those as "active".

The workaround is to restart the dhcpd daemon from time to time.


Related issues 2 (1 open1 closed)

Related to Smart Proxy - Bug #8557: Proxy does not respect abandoned leasesNewActions
Related to Foreman - Bug #8727: Discovered hosts with same MAC address are reported as DHCP conflictsClosedGreg Sutcliffe12/16/2014Actions
Actions #1

Updated by Dominic Cleal over 9 years ago

  • Category set to DHCP
Actions #2

Updated by The Foreman Bot over 9 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Ready For Testing
  • Pull request https://github.com/theforeman/smart-proxy/pull/239 added
  • Pull request deleted ()
Actions #3

Updated by Dominic Cleal over 9 years ago

  • Assignee set to Lukas Zapletal
Actions #4

Updated by Dominic Cleal over 9 years ago

  • Related to Bug #8557: Proxy does not respect abandoned leases added
Actions #5

Updated by Greg Sutcliffe over 9 years ago

Merged to develop, Dominic is this a 1.7.1 candidate?

Actions #6

Updated by Anonymous over 9 years ago

  • Status changed from Ready For Testing to Closed
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100
Actions #7

Updated by Dominic Cleal over 9 years ago

  • translation missing: en.field_release set to 29
Actions #8

Updated by Lukas Zapletal about 8 years ago

  • Related to Bug #8727: Discovered hosts with same MAC address are reported as DHCP conflicts added
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