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WIP: kvs: support configuration of max transaction count #6581

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@chu11 chu11 commented Jan 25, 2025

Per discussion in #6125, denial-of-service attacks could be made against the KVS by very very large KVS transactions.

Support two configurations for capping the number of transactions made by users. One for each individual transaction made by a caller and one for the combined total of operations from a fence.

For the time being, I made the default 64K for the transaction cap and 1M for the fence cap.

I made this WIP only b/c those defaults may be tweaked depending on what stats we get from the prior PR #6556. I would like to merge only after we gather a bit of data, although I'd be quite shocked if we have to adjust the defaults. Edit: Or alternately, if we'd like to just get the code in, we could default the max to LLONG_MAX and lower the default at a later time.

Only other thought is I decided to return the errno E2BIG if we went across a max cap boundary. It's possible there is a superior errno for this, I picked it b/c I thought "ehhh that's not bad".

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chu11 commented Feb 3, 2025

re-pushed, removing all fence related parts of this PR, since KVS fence support is now gone

@chu11 chu11 force-pushed the issue6572_kvs_transaction_max branch from 07ed829 to 7b1939d Compare February 3, 2025 19:35
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chu11 commented Feb 3, 2025

re-pushed, removing all the fence stuff that is no longer relevant b/c KVS fence support was removed

@chu11 chu11 changed the title WIP: kvs: support configuration of max transaction count kvs: support configuration of max transaction count Feb 12, 2025
@chu11 chu11 force-pushed the issue6572_kvs_transaction_max branch from 7b1939d to a651b3a Compare February 12, 2025 18:57
Problem: A KVS denial of service is possible because there is
no maximum on the number of operations a user can submit in a KVS
transaction.  For example, a KVS transaction with billions of KVS
entries would lead to a severe degradation in KVS performance.

Support a new KVS configuration "transaction-max-ops" that will reject
KVS transaction with operations above a maximum count.  The default
maximum is 65536.

Fixes flux-framework#6572
Problem: The new kvs transaction-max-ops configuration
option is not documented.

Add documentation to flux-config-kvs(5)
Problem: There is no coverage for the new kvs transaction-max-ops
configuration.

Add coverage in t1005-kvs-security.t.
@chu11 chu11 force-pushed the issue6572_kvs_transaction_max branch from a651b3a to 5ed7562 Compare February 13, 2025 22:12
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Attention: Patch coverage is 90.90909% with 2 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 83.87%. Comparing base (be350d6) to head (5ed7562).

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@chu11 chu11 changed the title kvs: support configuration of max transaction count WIP: kvs: support configuration of max transaction count Feb 14, 2025
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