Fix overflows in /messages backfill calculation (#13936)

* Reproduce bug
* Compute `least_function` first
* Substitute `least_function` with an f-string
* Bugfix: avoid overflow

Co-authored-by: Eric Eastwood <erice@element.io>
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David Robertson 2022-09-30 11:54:53 +01:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -73,13 +73,30 @@ pdus_pruned_from_federation_queue = Counter(
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
BACKFILL_EVENT_BACKOFF_UPPER_BOUND_SECONDS: int = int(
datetime.timedelta(days=7).total_seconds()
)
BACKFILL_EVENT_EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_STEP_SECONDS: int = int(
datetime.timedelta(hours=1).total_seconds()
# Parameters controlling exponential backoff between backfill failures.
# After the first failure to backfill, we wait 2 hours before trying again. If the
# second attempt fails, we wait 4 hours before trying again. If the third attempt fails,
# we wait 8 hours before trying again, ... and so on.
#
# Each successive backoff period is twice as long as the last. However we cap this
# period at a maximum of 2^8 = 256 hours: a little over 10 days. (This is the smallest
# power of 2 which yields a maximum backoff period of at least 7 days---which was the
# original maximum backoff period.) Even when we hit this cap, we will continue to
# make backfill attempts once every 10 days.
BACKFILL_EVENT_EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_MAXIMUM_DOUBLING_STEPS = 8
BACKFILL_EVENT_EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_STEP_MILLISECONDS = int(
datetime.timedelta(hours=1).total_seconds() * 1000
)
# We need a cap on the power of 2 or else the backoff period
# 2^N * (milliseconds per hour)
# will overflow when calcuated within the database. We ensure overflow does not occur
# by checking that the largest backoff period fits in a 32-bit signed integer.
_LONGEST_BACKOFF_PERIOD_MILLISECONDS = (
2**BACKFILL_EVENT_EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_MAXIMUM_DOUBLING_STEPS
) * BACKFILL_EVENT_EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_STEP_MILLISECONDS
assert 0 < _LONGEST_BACKOFF_PERIOD_MILLISECONDS <= ((2**31) - 1)
# All the info we need while iterating the DAG while backfilling
@attr.s(frozen=True, slots=True, auto_attribs=True)
@ -767,7 +784,15 @@ class EventFederationWorkerStore(SignatureWorkerStore, EventsWorkerStore, SQLBas
# persisted in our database yet (meaning we don't know their depth
# specifically). So we need to look for the approximate depth from
# the events connected to the current backwards extremeties.
sql = """
if isinstance(self.database_engine, PostgresEngine):
least_function = "LEAST"
elif isinstance(self.database_engine, Sqlite3Engine):
least_function = "MIN"
else:
raise RuntimeError("Unknown database engine")
sql = f"""
SELECT backward_extrem.event_id, event.depth FROM events AS event
/**
* Get the edge connections from the event_edges table
@ -825,7 +850,10 @@ class EventFederationWorkerStore(SignatureWorkerStore, EventsWorkerStore, SQLBas
*/
AND (
failed_backfill_attempt_info.event_id IS NULL
OR ? /* current_time */ >= failed_backfill_attempt_info.last_attempt_ts + /*least*/%s((1 << failed_backfill_attempt_info.num_attempts) * ? /* step */, ? /* upper bound */)
OR ? /* current_time */ >= failed_backfill_attempt_info.last_attempt_ts + (
(1 << {least_function}(failed_backfill_attempt_info.num_attempts, ? /* max doubling steps */))
* ? /* step */
)
)
/**
* Sort from highest (closest to the `current_depth`) to the lowest depth
@ -837,22 +865,15 @@ class EventFederationWorkerStore(SignatureWorkerStore, EventsWorkerStore, SQLBas
LIMIT ?
"""
if isinstance(self.database_engine, PostgresEngine):
least_function = "least"
elif isinstance(self.database_engine, Sqlite3Engine):
least_function = "min"
else:
raise RuntimeError("Unknown database engine")
txn.execute(
sql % (least_function,),
sql,
(
room_id,
False,
current_depth,
self._clock.time_msec(),
1000 * BACKFILL_EVENT_EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_STEP_SECONDS,
1000 * BACKFILL_EVENT_BACKOFF_UPPER_BOUND_SECONDS,
BACKFILL_EVENT_EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_MAXIMUM_DOUBLING_STEPS,
BACKFILL_EVENT_EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_STEP_MILLISECONDS,
limit,
),
)
@ -902,7 +923,14 @@ class EventFederationWorkerStore(SignatureWorkerStore, EventsWorkerStore, SQLBas
def get_insertion_event_backward_extremities_in_room_txn(
txn: LoggingTransaction, room_id: str
) -> List[Tuple[str, int]]:
sql = """
if isinstance(self.database_engine, PostgresEngine):
least_function = "LEAST"
elif isinstance(self.database_engine, Sqlite3Engine):
least_function = "MIN"
else:
raise RuntimeError("Unknown database engine")
sql = f"""
SELECT
insertion_event_extremity.event_id, event.depth
/* We only want insertion events that are also marked as backwards extremities */
@ -942,7 +970,10 @@ class EventFederationWorkerStore(SignatureWorkerStore, EventsWorkerStore, SQLBas
*/
AND (
failed_backfill_attempt_info.event_id IS NULL
OR ? /* current_time */ >= failed_backfill_attempt_info.last_attempt_ts + /*least*/%s((1 << failed_backfill_attempt_info.num_attempts) * ? /* step */, ? /* upper bound */)
OR ? /* current_time */ >= failed_backfill_attempt_info.last_attempt_ts + (
(1 << {least_function}(failed_backfill_attempt_info.num_attempts, ? /* max doubling steps */))
* ? /* step */
)
)
/**
* Sort from highest (closest to the `current_depth`) to the lowest depth
@ -954,21 +985,14 @@ class EventFederationWorkerStore(SignatureWorkerStore, EventsWorkerStore, SQLBas
LIMIT ?
"""
if isinstance(self.database_engine, PostgresEngine):
least_function = "least"
elif isinstance(self.database_engine, Sqlite3Engine):
least_function = "min"
else:
raise RuntimeError("Unknown database engine")
txn.execute(
sql % (least_function,),
sql,
(
room_id,
current_depth,
self._clock.time_msec(),
1000 * BACKFILL_EVENT_EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_STEP_SECONDS,
1000 * BACKFILL_EVENT_BACKOFF_UPPER_BOUND_SECONDS,
BACKFILL_EVENT_EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_MAXIMUM_DOUBLING_STEPS,
BACKFILL_EVENT_EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_STEP_MILLISECONDS,
limit,
),
)