I've been looking more into the failure mentioned in
<http://osdir.com/ml/bacula/2015-05/msg00171.html> whereby trying to
enable data encryption in the FD fails, *unless* the fd is running in
the foreground (via the -f flag).
(Bacula 7.0.5 running on FreeBSD 9.3, which is the version on which
the current stable FreeNAS is based.)
I've tracked things down in Bacula code to the call to EVP_CipherInit_ex
at around line 1307 in src/lib/crypto.c in crypto_cipher_new(). That call
fails, however we don't get any diagnostics; openssl_post_errors() in
openssl.c doesn't record anything because ERR_get_error() never returns
non-zero.
I attached to both the backgrounded and non-backgrounded processes
via truss to look for differences. Here in the foreground (working)
process we see:
open("/mnt/pool1/local/etc/bacula/testfile",O_RDONLY,00) = 10 (0xa)
ioctl(3,CRIOGET,0xff7fb25c) = 0 (0x0)
Bacula opens the file to be backed up, and the ioctl appears to be the
first system call made in EVP_CipherInit_ex (file descriptor 3 is,
I believe, /dev/crypto). The CRIOGET ioctl looks like it dups the
original file descriptor. (Why, I don't know.) The 3rd arg is the
address of the int that is the target of the dup.
Now the failing case:
open("/mnt/pool1/local/etc/bacula/testfile",O_RDONLY,00) = 10 (0xa)
ioctl(3,CRIOGET,0xff5fa25c) ERR#25 'Inappropriate ioctl for
device'
WTF? So it makes it look like in at least FreeBSD 9.3 /dev/crypto file
descriptors can't be cloned unless it is a foreground process. You would
think that this is something that was noticed a long time ago.
I'm wondering, with all the OpenSSL updates recently, if this is a case
where a newer OpenSSL was backported and this regression was missed.
Does my assessment sound feasible? Does anyone have Bacula 7.0.5
installed on a more recent FreeBSD and is able to validate if data
encryption works? (This doesn't seem to impact network encryption.)
Devin
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