UPPER CASE HOST NAME ANYMORE
Description:
It is not possible to drop users with host names with upper case
letters in them. i.e DROP USER 'root'@'Tmp_Host_Name'; is failing
with error.
Analysis: Since the fix 11748570 we came up with lower case hostnames
as standard. But in the current bug the hostname is created by
mysql_install_db script is still having upper case hostnames.
So, if we have the hostname with upper case letters like(Tmp_Host_Name)
then we will have as it is stored in the mysql.user table.
In this case if use "'DROP USER 'root'@'Tmp_Host_Name';" it gives
error because we do compare with the lower case of hostname since the
11748570 fix.
Fix: We need to convert the hostname to lower case before storing into
the mysql.user table when we run the mysql_install_db script.
Problem Description:
A mysqld_safe instance is started. An InnoDB crash recovery begins which takes
few seconds to complete. During this crash recovery process happening, another
mysqld_safe instance is started with the same server startup parameters. Since
the mysqld's pid file is absent during the crash recovery process the second
instance assumes there is no other process and tries to acquire a lock on the
ibdata files in the datadir. But this step fails and the 2nd instance keeps
retrying 100 times each with a delay of 1 second. Now after the 100 attempts,
the server goes down, but while going down it hits the mysqld_safe script's
cleanup section and without any check it blindly deletes the socket and pid
files. Since no lock is placed on the socket file, it gets deleted.
Solution:
We create a mysqld_safe.pid file in the datadir, which protects the presence
server instance resources by storing the mysqld_safe's process id in it. We
place a check if the mysqld_safe.pid file is existing in the datadir. If yes
then we check if the pid it contains is an active pid or not. If yes again,
then the scripts logs an error saying "A mysqld_safe instance is already
running". Otherwise it will log the present mysqld_safe's pid into the
mysqld_safe.pid file.
Problem Description:
A mysqld_safe instance is started. An InnoDB crash recovery begins which takes
few seconds to complete. During this crash recovery process happening, another
mysqld_safe instance is started with the same server startup parameters. Since
the mysqld's pid file is absent during the crash recovery process the second
instance assumes there is no other process and tries to acquire a lock on the
ibdata files in the datadir. But this step fails and the 2nd instance keeps
retrying 100 times each with a delay of 1 second. Now after the 100 attempts,
the server goes down, but while going down it hits the mysqld_safe script's
cleanup section and without any check it blindly deletes the socket and pid
files. Since no lock is placed on the socket file, it gets deleted.
Solution:
We create a mysqld_safe.pid file in the datadir, which protects the presence
server instance resources by storing the mysqld_safe's process id in it. We
place a check if the mysqld_safe.pid file is existing in the datadir. If yes
then we check if the pid it contains is an active pid or not. If yes again,
then the scripts logs an error saying "A mysqld_safe instance is already
running". Otherwise it will log the present mysqld_safe's pid into the
mysqld_safe.pid file.
As current size limit of 'url' field of help_topic
table is no longer sufficient for the contents of
the fill_help_tables-5.1.sql. So, loading the contents
in the table might result in warning (or error with
stricter modes).
Updated the type for 'url' field of help_topic as well
as help_category tables from char(128) to text.
HOST HAS '_' IN THE HOSTNAME
Problem:
=======
'_' and '%' are treated as a wildcards by the ACL code and
this is documented in the manual. The problem with
mysql_install_db is that it does not take this into account
when creating the initial GRANT tables:
--- cut ---
REPLACE INTO tmp_user SELECT @current_hostname,'root','','Y',
'Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y',
'Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','','','','',
0,0,0,0 FROM dual WHERE LOWER( @current_hostname) != 'localhost';
--- cut ---
If @current_hostname contains any wildcard characters, then
a wildcard entry will be defined for the 'root' user,
which is a flaw.
Analysis:
========
As per the bug description when we have a hostname with a
wildcard character in it, it allows clients from several other
hosts with similar name pattern to connect to the server as root.
For example, if the hostname is like 'host_.com' then the same
name is logged in mysql.user table. This allows 'root' users
from other hosts like 'host1.com', 'host2.com' ... to connect
to the server as root user.
While creating the intial GRANT tables we do not have a check
for wildcard characters in hostname.
Fix:
===
As part of fix escape character "\" is added before wildcard
character to make it a plain character, so that the one and
only host with the exact name will be able to connect to the
server.
scripts/mysql_system_tables_data.sql:
while creating default users get the hostname and
replace the wildcard characters within the hostname after
escaping them.
Some shell interpreters do not support '-e' test
primary to construct conditions.
man test 1 (on S10)
...skip...
-e file True if file exists. (Not available in sh.)
...skip...
Hence, check for the existence of a file using
'-e' might result in a syntax error on such
shell programs.
Fixed by replacing it by '-f'.
mysqld_safe script did not heed MySQL specific environment variable
$UMASK, leading to divergent behavior between mysqld and mysqld_safe.
Patch adds an approximation of mysqld's behavior to mysqld_safe,
within the bounds dictated by attempt to have mysqld_safe run on
even the most basic of shells (proper '70s sh, not just bash
with a fancy symlink).
Patch also adds approximation of said behavior to mysqld_multi
(in perl).
(backport)
manual merge
mysqld_safe script did not heed MySQL specific environment variable
$UMASK, leading to divergent behavior between mysqld and mysqld_safe.
Patch adds an approximation of mysqld's behavior to mysqld_safe,
within the bounds dictated by attempt to have mysqld_safe run on
even the most basic of shells (proper '70s sh, not just bash
with a fancy symlink).
Patch also adds approximation of said behavior to mysqld_multi
(in perl).
Bug #14181049: MYSQL_INSTALL_DB.PL CREATES EMPTY SYSTEM TABLES FOR MYSQL
The script is different from what's used on unixes.
It was not playing the table insertion script (mysql_system_tables_data.sql),
although it was checking for the presence of this script.
Fixed by re-enabling the lookup for this file and replaying it at bootstrap
time. Note that on the Unixes "SELECT @@hostname" does return a fully qualified
name, whereas on Windows it returns only a hostname.
So by default we're filtering records in the mysql.user table until we ensure
this is fixed.
The change was coded in 5.5 by Georgi Kodinov <Georgi.Kodinov@Oracle.com>
TO DEFAULT IGNOR
The test in mysqld_safe for the presence of the --plugin-dir and assigning a default
value to it were performed before the actual argument parsing.
This is wrong, as PLUGIN_DIR mysqld_safe code also uses MY_BASEDIR_VERSION to
look for version specific plugin directory if present.
Fixed by moving the PLUGIN_DIR logic after the parse_arguments() call.
The script is different from what's used on unixes.
It was not playing the table insertion script (mysql_system_tables_data.sql),
although it was checking for the presence of this script.
Fixed by re-enabling the lookup for this file and replaying it at bootstrap
time. Note that on the Unixes "SELECT @@hostname" does return a fully qualified
name, whereas on Windows it returns only a hostname.
So by default we're filtering records in the mysql.user table until we ensure
this is fixed.
Problem description:
mysqlhotcopy fails if a view presents in the database.
Analysis:
Before 5.5 'FLUSH TABLES <tbl_name> ... WITH READ LOCK' will able
to get lock for all tables (i.e. base tables and view tables).
In 5.5 onwards 'FLUSH TABLES <tbl_name> ... WITH READ LOCK' for
'view tables' will not work, because taking flush locks on view
tables is not valid.
Fix:
Take flush lock for 'base tables' and read lock for 'view table'
separately.
Note: most of the patch has been backported from bug#13006947's patch
WORK + SAVES ROOT PASSWORD TO DISK!
The secure installation scripts connect to the
server by storing the password in a temporary
option file. Now, if the script gets killed or
fails for some reason, the removal of the option
file may not take place.
This patch introduces following enhancements :
* (.sh) Made sure that cleanup happens at every
call to 'exit 1'. This is performed implicitly
by END{} in pl.in.
* (.pl.in) Added a warning in case unlink fails
to delete the option/query files.
* (.sh/.pl.in) Added more signals to the signal
handler list. SIG# 1, 3, 6, 15
Added a trottling mechanism to mysqld_safe.
On every 5 sub-second restarts it will wait for a second before attempting again.
Note that this requires 'sleep' and 'date' command line utilities.
The code would adjust and will do nothing if any of them is not present.
Please exclude make_binary_distribution from the distribution
With cmake (5.5 and up), "make package" will do it,
or cpack.
The (generated) "scripts/make_binary_distribution" is just
a wrapper around a "cpack" call,
with path names set at build time.
Similar, "make_win_bin_dist" is not needed any more.
scripts/CMakeLists.txt:
Cleanup:
Append a trailing newline when generating "make_binary_distribution"
(which is just a wrapper around a "cpack" call).
support-files/mysql.spec.sh:
"make_win_bin_dist" is removed from the sources,
so its man page is gone,
and it need not be removed when creating the RPMs.
(EG: --DEFAULTS-FILE )
Updating help message in scripts/mysql_install_db.pl.in file.
scripts/mysql_install_db.pl.in:
Bug#11765888 58898: MYSQL_INSTALL_DB: NOT ALL OPTIONS DOCUMENTED
(EG: --DEFAULTS-FILE )
Updating help message.
FAILS, CAUSING CLOBBERED SOCKET
A check for running mysqld instances was failing in mysqld_safe
because of an incorrect shell command generated by cmake. The
problem is that cmake retains the '\' of escaped double-quote,
so the generated mysqld_safe script's command contained \" in
the shell command, and hence the failure.
Fixed the command in scripts\CMakeLists.txt.
scripts/CMakeLists.txt:
BUG#1878394 - MYSQLD_SAFE TEST FOR ALREADY RUNNING PROCESS
FAILS, CAUSING CLOBBERED SOCKET
Removed the escaped quotes and grep for 'grep process' from
the shell commands.
Bug #11936829: DIFF. BETWEEN MYSQL.USER (AUTHENTICATION_STRING) IN
FRESH AND UPGRADED 5.5.11
There was no modification for pre 5.5.11 builds that had
authentication_string. Thus the column was not upgraded
by mysql_upgrade.
Fixed by adding an ALTER TABLE MODIFY to update an existing
column to the latest type version.
Test suite added.
configuration wizard to fail
Made the fields mysql.user.plugin and mysql.user.authentication_string
nullable to conform with some older clients doing inserts instead of
using the commands.
This patch corrects the problem by fixing the definition and alterations
of the mysql.user table in the .sql files.
Also included are new result files for tests that examine the name
column of the mysql.user table.
