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Re: Critical: Memory leak in snort 2.9 and FreeBSD >= 10.4
From: James via Snort-devel <snort-devel () lists snort org>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 09:05:34 +0300
Please unsubscribe On Thu, 24 May 2018 at 17:12 <elof () sentor se> wrote:
Hi list (and Zi from FreeBSD ports)!
I sent the below question to snort-users in March but got no response.
Now I have upgraded a couple of more systems. This time from FreeBSD
10.3 to 10.4 (not from 10.3 to 11.1 as before) and snort start leaking
memory on all of them, just as it did in FreeBSD 11.1!
FreeBSD 10.3: snort --version
,,_ -*> Snort! <*-
o" )~ Version 2.9.11.1 (Build 268)
'''' By Martin Roesch & The Snort Team:
http://www.snort.org/contact#team
Copyright (C) 2014-2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All
rights
reserved.
Copyright (C) 1998-2013 Sourcefire, Inc., et al.
Using libpcap version 1.8.1
Using PCRE version: 8.40 2017-01-11
Using ZLIB version: 1.2.8
Snort is working fine. No memory leak. :-)
FreeBSD 10.4: snort --version
,,_ -*> Snort! <*-
o" )~ Version 2.9.11.1 (Build 268)
'''' By Martin Roesch & The Snort Team:
http://www.snort.org/contact#team
Copyright (C) 2014-2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All
rights
reserved.
Copyright (C) 1998-2013 Sourcefire, Inc., et al.
Using libpcap version 1.8.1
Using PCRE version: 8.42 2018-03-20
Using ZLIB version: 1.2.11
Snort has a memory leak. :-(
FreeBSD 11.1: snort --version
,,_ -*> Snort! <*-
o" )~ Version 2.9.11.1 (Build 268)
'''' By Martin Roesch & The Snort Team:
http://www.snort.org/contact#team
Copyright (C) 2014-2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights
reserved.
Copyright (C) 1998-2013 Sourcefire, Inc., et al.
Using libpcap version 1.8.1
Using PCRE version: 8.40 2017-01-11
Using ZLIB version: 1.2.11
Snort has a memory leak. :-(
The snort version+build is exactly the same in all three OS versions.
Libpcap is the same.
PCRE is the same between 10.3 and the test on 11.1.
ZLIB has changed from v1.2.8 to v1.2.11 in both cases.
So in 10.3 everything is working fine.
In 10.4 and 11.1, with ZLIB 1.2.11, there is a memory leak.
I suspect there's a problem in snort together with ZLIB 1.2.11.
On a sensor which see lots of traffic, all of its 16 GB RAM is consumed by
snort in roughly 30 minutes. (swap get full and things crash)
This problem is reproduceable all the time, on all upgraded boxes.
Can you developers please take a look at this?
Let me know if you need more information/testing from me.
I'm no programmer, but I can compile snort with debugging symbols and I
can run gdb commands if you provide them.
Some more info:
Arch: amd64
12 CPUs: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1650 v4 @ 3.60GHz
RAM: 16 GB
I'm building snort from FreeBSD ports, using poudriere.
Build options:
---Begin OPTIONS List---
===> The following configuration options are available for
snort-2.9.11.1_1:
APPID=off: Build with application id support (EXPERIMENTAL)
DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation
FILEINSPECT=off: Build with extended file inspection features
(EXPERIMENTAL)
GRE=off: GRE support
HA=off: Enable high-availability state sharing (EXPERIMENTAL)
IPV6=off: IPv6 in snort.conf
LRGPCAP=off: Pcaps larger than 2GB
NONETHER=off: Non-Ethernet Decoders
NORMALIZER=on: Normalizer
PERFPROFILE=on: Performance profiling
SOURCEFIRE=on: Sourcefire recommended build options
====> Depend on 3rd party addons
BARNYARD=off: Depend on barnyard2 (supports also snortsam)
PULLEDPORK=off: Depend on pulledpork
====> Developer options
DBGSNORT=off: Enable debugging symbols+core dumps
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
---End OPTIONS List---
Snort daq is running in pcap mode.
Snort is running in passive mode.
Snort is using search-method ac-split.
preprocessor http_inspect: global iis_unicode_map
/usr/local/etc/snort/unicode.map 1252 compress_depth 65535
decompress_depth 65535 max_gzip_mem 1000000 memcap 603979776
http_inspect: unlimited_decompress is enabled
http_inspect: inspect_gzip is enabled
PS:
libz is part of the FreeBSD base system, it is not a port, so I can't hold
it back when upgrading the OS.
/Elof
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From: elof () sentor se
To: snort-users mailinglist <snort-users () lists sourceforge net>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 16:35:24 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Memory leak in snort 2.9 and FreeBSD 11?
Critical issue.
After I upgraded a few FreeBSD 10.3 machines to 11.1, snort has begun
eating
memory until it crashes.
This seem to be happening on all upgraded machines, all the time.
I suspect there's a memory leak somewhere.
Example of 40 minutes after I start snort. I run:
while true
do
ps faxuw | egrep "^USER|/[s]nort "
echo "---"
top | grep -B3 ^Swap
echo "---"
sleep 120
done
Here you see it start to consume RAM:
####
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
snort 7337 98.4 1.4 356096 232376 - Rs 14:40 0:01.35 snort
---
Mem: 550M Active, 174M Inact, 1585M Wired, 13G Free
ARC: 711M Total, 153M MFU, 545M MRU, 1600K Anon, 4623K Header, 7465K Other
593M Compressed, 1647M Uncompressed, 2.78:1 Ratio
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free
---
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
snort 7337 54.3 7.2 3002112 1199900 - Rs 14:40 1:04.85 snort
---
Mem: 1499M Active, 191M Inact, 1670M Wired, 12G Free
ARC: 763M Total, 178M MFU, 572M MRU, 1308K Anon, 4860K Header, 7441K Other
646M Compressed, 1779M Uncompressed, 2.75:1 Ratio
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free
---
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
snort 7337 54.3 12.9 5644032 2155388 - Ss 14:40 2:07.16 snort
---
Mem: 2427M Active, 191M Inact, 1682M Wired, 11G Free
ARC: 777M Total, 178M MFU, 585M MRU, 1344K Anon, 4935K Header, 7513K Other
661M Compressed, 1815M Uncompressed, 2.75:1 Ratio
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free
---
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
snort 7337 54.5 18.7 8275712 3114844 - Rs 14:40 3:09.86 snort
---
Mem: 3357M Active, 192M Inact, 1768M Wired, 10G Free
ARC: 821M Total, 194M MFU, 614M MRU, 556K Anon, 5195K Header, 7513K Other
711M Compressed, 1942M Uncompressed, 2.73:1 Ratio
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free
---
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME
COMMAND
snort 7337 54.2 24.3 10862336 4053456 - Rs 14:40 4:11.28 snort
---
Mem: 4270M Active, 194M Inact, 1778M Wired, 9646M Free
ARC: 890M Total, 299M MFU, 578M MRU, 400K Anon, 5243K Header, 7442K Other
726M Compressed, 1978M Uncompressed, 2.73:1 Ratio
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free
---
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME
COMMAND
snort 7337 56.2 29.9 13461248 4998904 - Ss 14:40 5:13.96 snort
---
Mem: 5188M Active, 195M Inact, 1798M Wired, 8708M Free
ARC: 826M Total, 261M MFU, 551M MRU, 528K Anon, 5300K Header, 7410K Other
741M Compressed, 2015M Uncompressed, 2.72:1 Ratio
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free
---
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME
COMMAND
snort 7337 53.1 35.5 16033536 5929068 - Rs 14:40 6:15.56 snort
---
Mem: 6091M Active, 195M Inact, 1823M Wired, 7779M Free
ARC: 870M Total, 255M MFU, 602M MRU, 276K Anon, 5391K Header, 7521K Other
755M Compressed, 2051M Uncompressed, 2.72:1 Ratio
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free
---
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME
COMMAND
snort 7337 51.2 41.1 18605824 6867124 - Ss 14:40 7:16.95 snort
---
Mem: 7002M Active, 195M Inact, 1848M Wired, 6843M Free
ARC: 885M Total, 221M MFU, 651M MRU, 288K Anon, 5454K Header, 7515K Other
769M Compressed, 2087M Uncompressed, 2.71:1 Ratio
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free
---
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME
COMMAND
snort 7337 54.0 46.8 21212928 7810464 - Rs 14:40 8:19.24 snort
---
Mem: 7924M Active, 195M Inact, 1943M Wired, 5826M Free
ARC: 936M Total, 218M MFU, 703M MRU, 952K Anon, 5766K Header, 7829K Other
824M Compressed, 2222M Uncompressed, 2.70:1 Ratio
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free
---
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME
COMMAND
snort 7337 53.0 52.5 23834368 8762624 - Ss 14:40 9:21.14 snort
---
Mem: 8849M Active, 195M Inact, 1954M Wired, 4891M Free
ARC: 951M Total, 218M MFU, 718M MRU, 920K Anon, 5827K Header, 7814K Other
838M Compressed, 2259M Uncompressed, 2.69:1 Ratio
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free
---
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME
COMMAND
snort 7337 50.9 58.2 26472192 9721948 - Rs 14:40 10:23.33 snort
---
Mem: 9782M Active, 195M Inact, 1971M Wired, 3941M Free
ARC: 965M Total, 220M MFU, 731M MRU, 920K Anon, 5882K Header, 7822K Other
853M Compressed, 2295M Uncompressed, 2.69:1 Ratio
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free
---
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME
COMMAND
snort 7337 50.3 63.9 29105920 10676928 - Rs 14:40 11:26.69
snort
---
Mem: 10G Active, 204M Inact, 2116M Wired, 2852M Free
ARC: 1062M Total, 274M MFU, 774M MRU, 1052K Anon, 6252K Header, 7728K Other
939M Compressed, 2510M Uncompressed, 2.67:1 Ratio
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free
---
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME
COMMAND
snort 7337 55.5 69.6 31735552 11617828 - Rs 14:40 12:28.81
snort
---
Mem: 11G Active, 224M Inact, 2132M Wired, 1921M Free
ARC: 1092M Total, 300M MFU, 777M MRU, 1072K Anon, 6285K Header, 7591K Other
954M Compressed, 2547M Uncompressed, 2.67:1 Ratio
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free
---
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME
COMMAND
snort 7337 55.1 75.1 34324224 12545340 - Rs 14:40 13:30.78
snort
---
Mem: 12G Active, 230M Inact, 2222M Wired, 931M Free
ARC: 1117M Total, 325M MFU, 777M MRU, 1204K Anon, 6542K Header, 7580K Other
1010M Compressed, 2686M Uncompressed, 2.66:1 Ratio
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free
---
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME
COMMAND
snort 7337 55.2 80.4 36824832 13427160 - Ss 14:40 14:32.93
snort
---
Mem: 12G Active, 263M Inact, 1428M Laundry, 1929M Wired, 367M Free
ARC: 1156M Total, 325M MFU, 816M MRU, 1068K Anon, 6614K Header, 7613K Other
1025M Compressed, 2722M Uncompressed, 2.66:1 Ratio
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free
---
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME
COMMAND
snort 7337 54.6 82.6 39397120 13800500 - Rs 14:40 15:35.14
snort
---
Mem: 12G Active, 110M Inact, 1784M Laundry, 1937M Wired, 191M Free
ARC: 1159M Total, 323M MFU, 822M MRU, 936K Anon, 6648K Header, 7488K Other
1039M Compressed, 2758M Uncompressed, 2.65:1 Ratio
Swap: 4096M Total, 685M Used, 3411M Free, 16% Inuse
---
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME
COMMAND
snort 7337 53.8 82.6 41801472 13800476 - Ss 14:40 16:35.38
snort
---
Mem: 11G Active, 107M Inact, 1846M Laundry, 1990M Wired, 182M Free
ARC: 1208M Total, 338M MFU, 854M MRU, 1552K Anon, 6866K Header, 7564K Other
1087M Compressed, 2878M Uncompressed, 2.65:1 Ratio
Swap: 4096M Total, 1508M Used, 2587M Free, 36% Inuse
---
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME
COMMAND
snort 7337 54.5 82.2 44414720 13735076 - Rs 14:40 17:38.62
snort
---
Mem: 12G Active, 34M Inact, 1766M Laundry, 2014M Wired, 292M Free
ARC: 1221M Total, 337M MFU, 868M MRU, 1436K Anon, 6944K Header, 7616K Other
1102M Compressed, 2914M Uncompressed, 2.64:1 Ratio
Swap: 4096M Total, 2551M Used, 1544M Free, 62% Inuse
---
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME
COMMAND
snort 7337 54.6 82.1 46968576 13714884 - Ss 14:40 18:42.19
snort
---
Mem: 11G Active, 64M Inact, 1884M Laundry, 2058M Wired, 259M Free
ARC: 1252M Total, 352M MFU, 885M MRU, 672K Anon, 7150K Header, 7525K Other
1153M Compressed, 3043M Uncompressed, 2.64:1 Ratio
Swap: 4096M Total, 3457M Used, 639M Free, 84% Inuse
---
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
snort 7337 2.2 0.0 0 16 - R<Es 14:40 19:49.65 snort
---
Mem: 12G Active, 5252K Inact, 786M Laundry, 1937M Wired, 461M Free
ARC: 1319M Total, 384M MFU, 920M MRU, 967K Anon, 7275K Header, 7534K Other
1181M Compressed, 3112M Uncompressed, 2.63:1 Ratio
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Used, K Free, 100% Inuse
---
After maxing out at 82.2% or RAM for a copuple of minutes, the process is
automatically killed by the system:
Mar 2 15:17:48 chobetsu-10 kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
Mar 2 15:17:48 chobetsu-10 kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(11): failed
Mar 2 15:20:18 chobetsu-10 kernel: pid 7337 (snort), uid 100, was killed:
out
of swap space
...the while-loop continues...
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
<no snort process started>
---
Mem: 272M Active, 12M Inact, 2079M Wired, 13G Free
ARC: 1376M Total, 516M MFU, 844M MRU, 1552K Anon, 7347K Header, 7524K Other
1197M Compressed, 3150M Uncompressed, 2.63:1 Ratio
Swap: 4096M Total, 225M Used, 3871M Free, 5% Inuse
---
I startup snort again.
...the while-loop continues...
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
snort 14277 57.3 5.1 2055936 856740 - Rs 15:23 0:43.21 snort
---
Mem: 1090M Active, 56M Inact, 2136M Wired, 12G Free
ARC: 1330M Total, 435M MFU, 879M MRU, 1432K Anon, 7487K Header, 7824K Other
1213M Compressed, 3193M Uncompressed, 2.63:1 Ratio
Swap: 4096M Total, 190M Used, 3906M Free, 4% Inuse
---
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME
COMMAND
snort 14277 57.9 11.0 4714240 1829656 - Ss 15:23 1:49.20 snort
---
Mem: 2046M Active, 97M Inact, 2366M Wired, 11G Free
ARC: 1401M Total, 438M MFU, 945M MRU, 1296K Anon, 8041K Header, 8700K Other
1314M Compressed, 3438M Uncompressed, 2.62:1 Ratio
Swap: 4096M Total, 172M Used, 3924M Free, 4% Inuse
---
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME
COMMAND
snort 14277 54.3 16.8 7362304 2798096 - Ss 15:23 2:54.43 snort
---
Mem: 2985M Active, 98M Inact, 2378M Wired, 10G Free
ARC: 1450M Total, 438M MFU, 994M MRU, 1468K Anon, 8120K Header, 8754K Other
1329M Compressed, 3475M Uncompressed, 2.62:1 Ratio
Swap: 4096M Total, 172M Used, 3924M Free, 4% Inuse
---
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME
COMMAND
snort 14277 60.4 22.6 10053376 3776916 - Ss 15:23 4:00.53 snort
...and so on until pid 14277 gets out of swap.
I'm running:
FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p4 amd64
Snort Version 2.9.11.1 (Build 268)
Using libpcap version 1.8.1
Using PCRE version: 8.40 2017-01-11
Using ZLIB version: 1.2.11
Has anyone else observed this?
Any tips on how I can help debug this further?
A SIGHUP don't reveal anything about what subsystem is eating memory.
I've tried setting two memcaps to a really low value, to see if the
process
stop increasing in size:
preprocessor stream5_global: ......... memcap 128257751
preprocessor http_inspect: global .... memcap 85505167
No luck. The snort process grows to >80% of system RAM and then dies.
Some info about the snort conf:
Running in IDS mode
Detection: Search-Method = AC-Full-Q
Split Any/Any group = enabled
Search-Method-Optimizations = enabled
Maximum pattern length = 20
+-----------------------[detection-filter-config]------------------------------
memory-cap : 1048576 bytes
+-----------------------[rate-filter-config]-----------------------------------
memory-cap : 1048576 bytes
+-----------------------[event-filter-config]----------------------------------
memory-cap : 1048576 bytes
Rule application order:
pass->activation->dynamic->drop->alert->log->sdrop->reject
pcap DAQ configured to passive.
chroot
Set gid to 100
Set uid to 100
The same snort version was running just fine on FreeBSD 10.3 before the
upgrade.
/Elof
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- Critical: Memory leak in snort 2.9 and FreeBSD >= 10.4 elof (May 24)
- Re: Critical: Memory leak in snort 2.9 and FreeBSD >= 10.4 James via Snort-devel (May 24)
- Re: Critical: Memory leak in snort 2.9 and FreeBSD >= 10.4 Carter Waxman (cwaxman) via Snort-devel (May 25)
- Re: Critical: Memory leak in snort 2.9 and FreeBSD >= 10.4 elof (May 26)
- Re: Critical: Memory leak in snort 2.9 and FreeBSD >= 10.4 Lokesh Bevinamarad (lbevinam) via Snort-devel (May 28)
- Re: Critical: Memory leak in snort 2.9 and FreeBSD >= 10.4 elof (May 26)