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* Mentors: Kai Blin, David Disseldorp
* Mentors: Kai Blin, David Disseldorp
* Student: Dimitris Gravanis
* Student: Dimitris Gravanis



= Project Summary =
= Project Summary =



=== Project Information ===
=== Project Information ===



'''Client-side DNS call handling with GSS-TSIG'''
'''Client-side DNS call handling with GSS-TSIG'''

Revision as of 08:05, 28 August 2017

Initial task description

Improve libcli/dns

Samba comes with its own asynchronous DNS parser framework developed for the internal DNS server. Basic calls have been implemented for a client-side library as well, but a more fleshed out implementation would be needed. The goal of this project is to implement more high-level calls handling DNS requests, such as UDP/TCP switchover and client-side GSS-TSIG cryptography. A test suite excercising all the functions is required and can be used to cross-check and complement the existing DNS server tests already shipped by Samba. This testsuite should use cmocka.

  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Language(s): C
  • Mentors: Kai Blin, David Disseldorp
  • Student: Dimitris Gravanis


Project Summary

Project Information

Client-side DNS call handling with GSS-TSIG

Unix SMB/CIFS implementation

Dimitrios Gravanis (C) 2017

Based on the existing work by Samba Team


About

For the Samba AD DC, libcli/dns is a library that allows the handling of DNS calls (send/receive requests) and generates GSS-TSIG type encryption signature for signed packets, to accomodate encrypted client-server communication.

The project goal was to enhance client-server communication, by implementing TCP request send/receive handling and sign client-side packets with GSS-TSIG signatures, to provide security.

It consists of its respective function and structure libraries, that provide definitions for client-side functionality.

For more information on the project goals, read the GSoC proposal here.

The project timeline and development journal is documented in its dedicated blogspot.


Repositories
  • Individual project "mirror" repository (requires Samba source code for integration - NOT STANDALONE): link
  • Personal samba-team/samba fork with integrated changes in libcli/dns: link
  • Samba GitHub repository: link


Commits
  • dimgrav/Samba-GSOC2017: link
  • dimgrav/samba (fork): link

The libcli/dns library


To integrate the functionality described in the project goals, the entire libcli/dns structure had to be reorganized, since the vast majority of the current code in libcli/dns was created during the GSoC project duration, with few changes to the pre-existing code, such as renames (for reasons of semantics and integration of the new code) and minor additions, mainly to incorporate all the new code into the Samba building scripts.

The project code is currently under review by Samba.


libcli/dns contents

The project generated code and the difference in libcli/dns structure is demonstrated as follows:


Initial libcli/dns structure:

  • dns.c
  • dns.h
  • libdns.h
  • wscript_build

Project libcli/dns structure:

  • cli-fn/
    • README.md
    • client_crypto.c
    • dns_tcp.c
    • dns_udp.c
  • cmocka-tests/
    • test-fn/
      • cli_crypto_test.c
      • dns_tcp_test.c
      • dns_udp_test.c
      • wscript
    • README.md
    • cli_tests.c
    • wscript_build
  • README.md
  • cli_dns.c (replaces dns.c)
  • dns.h
  • libtcp.h
  • libudp.h (renamed from libdns.h)
  • libtsig.h
  • libwrap.h
  • wrap_cli.c
  • wscript_build


The README files document features and provide useful information on building with Waf.


Other changes

In Samba/source4/dns_server/dns_query.c:

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 #include "dsdb/samdb/samdb.h"
 #include "dsdb/common/util.h"
 #include "dns_server/dns_server.h"
-#include "libcli/dns/libdns.h"
+#include "libcli/dns/libudp.h"
 #include "lib/util/dlinklist.h"
 #include "lib/util/util_net.h"
 #include "lib/util/tevent_werror.h"

In Samba/libcli/dns/wscript_build:

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
#!/usr/bin/env python

+# builds a library for DNS TCP/UDP calls that utilizes GSS-TSIG encryption
 bld.SAMBA_SUBSYSTEM('clidns',
-         source='dns.c',
-         public_deps='LIBTSOCKET tevent-util')
+	  source='cli_dns.c',
+	  public_deps='LIBTSOCKET tevent-util',
+	  deps='gensec auth samba_server_gensec dnsserver_common')

In Samba/wscript_build:

@@ -120,12 +120,14 @@ bld.RECURSE('libcli/lsarpc')
 bld.RECURSE('libcli/drsuapi')
 bld.RECURSE('libcli/echo')
 bld.RECURSE('libcli/dns')
+bld.RECURSE('libcli/dns/cmocka-tests')
 bld.RECURSE('libcli/samsync')
 bld.RECURSE('libcli/registry')
 bld.RECURSE('source4/lib/policy')
 bld.RECURSE('libcli/named_pipe_auth')
 if bld.CONFIG_GET('ENABLE_SELFTEST'):
     bld.RECURSE('testsuite/unittests')
+    bld.RECURSE('libcli/dns/cmocka-tests/test-fn')
 
 if bld.CONFIG_GET('KRB5_VENDOR') in (None, 'heimdal'):
     if bld.CONFIG_GET("HEIMDAL_KRB5_CONFIG") and bld.CONFIG_GET("USING_SYSTEM_KRB5"):


DNS client and features


This section provides information on cli_dns functionality.


TCP/UDP requests

The client may use either TCP or UDP protocols to send a DNS name request to the server, then handle the reception of the appropriate server response.

Features:

  • UDP async request send/receive
  • TCP async request send/receive
  • GSS-TSIG generation
  • DNS name packet parsing and signing

The library consists of cli_dns.c, that includes functions, and dns.h, libtcp.h, libtsig.h, libudp.h, that provide definitions and structures.


Wrapping

wrap_cli.c provides multiple wrapping of the above functionality, to hide buffer creation, DNS packet parsing and signature generation. Definitions of the wrapped functions are provided in libwrap.h.


Test suite

In cmocka-tests, cli_tests.c provides a test suite for the complete client-side functionality, as defined by the functions in libcli/dns/cli_dns.c. The API used for unit testing is Cmocka.

In cmocka-tests/test-fn, there are individual unit tests for every feature library in libcli/dns. All of these tests are incorporated in cmocka-tests/cli_tests.c These tests can be built by using waf-samba and the intended configuration in cmocka-tests/test-fn/wscript. The purpose of these test suites is to facilitate future additions and features in Samba client-side code, without the necessity to integrate them directly to cli_dns.c, thus making changes easier to test and encourage future contributions.

To-do list


Potential improvements include:


Tests

All included tests have room for refinement, improvement and more thorough function checks. A few specific points of interest would be:

  1. cmocka-tests/test-fn: wscript needs to be properly configured to enable standalone test builds for the feature libraries.
  2. cmocka-tests/cli_tests.c: TCP/UDP callbacks may be additionally tested for internal error output in their respective test functions.