[Oisf-users] Suricata 4.1.x possible memory leak (tcp.reassembly_memuse)

Eric Urban eurban at umn.edu
Thu Mar 5 14:12:28 UTC 2020


Since you mentioned the SMB parser, I believe it wouldn't apply in your
case since you don't have Rust enabled.

I looked at our config in the stream section and noticed two options that
differ quite a bit, which is the prealloc-sessions being set much higher
(500000) and reassembly.depth is at the default value.  From
https://suricata.readthedocs.io/en/suricata-4.1.6/configuration/suricata-yaml.html?highlight=prealloc%20sessions#stream-engine,
it is written that "To mitigate Suricata from being overloaded by fast
session creation, the option prealloc_sessions instructs Suricata to keep a
number of sessions ready in memory" (Note that there is maybe a typo there
in "prealloc_sessions" as in our config and in the suricata.yaml example
from their GitHub repo it is actually prealloc-sessions with a hyphen and
not an underscore).  Though your issue isn't quite what I would expect
based on the documentation, it is worth a shot to see if this has any
effect.


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On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 2:59 AM d0g d3v <d0gd3v at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
>
> After suricata upgrade from 4.0.5 to 4.1.x(0-7) it seems in my setup I experiencing some memory leak. tcp.reassembly_memuse continuously increasing up to any limit set (40gb in few minutes) and then tcp.segment_memcap_drop are triggered and suricata events drops to almost zero.
>
> On the other side, in 4.0.5 there is 15gb stream.reassembly.memcap set and is never reached. tcp.reassembly_memuse is stable around 11gb.
>
>
> My setup:
>
> CPU: 56 cores
>
> MEM: 64 GB
>
> debian 9
>
> pfring-zc
>
>
> stream:
>   memcap: 20gb
>   checksum-validation: no  # reject wrong csums
>   inline: no                    # auto will use inline mode in IPS mode, yes or no set it statically
>   prealloc-sessions: 8096
>   bypass: yes
>   midstream: true
>   async-oneside: true
>   reassembly:
>     memcap: 15gb
>     depth: 20mb                  # reassemble 1mb into a stream
>     toserver-chunk-size: 2560
>     toclient-chunk-size: 2560
>     randomize-chunk-size: yes
>
>
> What I tried:
>
> -disable zero copy, change pfring to afpacket - same result
>
> -filter-out smb communication (bpf) if the smb parsing introduced in 4.1. is not root cause - same result
>
> -significantly decrease stream.reassembly.depth and flow-timeouts - same results
>
>
>
> I currently can't easy try v5.0.x because of dependencies on the current system. Could you please point me to direction what else I could check?
>
> buildinfo for 4.0.5 and then 4.1.7
>
> This is Suricata version 4.0.5 RELEASE
> Features: PCAP_SET_BUFF PF_RING AF_PACKET HAVE_PACKET_FANOUT LIBCAP_NG LIBNET1.1 HAVE_HTP_URI_NORMALIZE_HOOK PCRE_JIT HAVE_NSS HAVE_LIBJANSSON TLS MAGIC
> SIMD support: SSE_4_2 SSE_4_1 SSE_3
> Atomic intrisics: 1 2 4 8 16 byte(s)
> 64-bits, Little-endian architecture
> GCC version 6.3.0 20170516, C version 199901
> compiled with _FORTIFY_SOURCE=0
> L1 cache line size (CLS)=64
> thread local storage method: __thread
> compiled with LibHTP v0.5.27, linked against LibHTP v0.5.27
>
> Suricata Configuration:
>   AF_PACKET support:                       yes
>   PF_RING support:                         yes
>   NFQueue support:                         no
>   NFLOG support:                           yes
>   IPFW support:                            no
>   Netmap support:                          no
>   DAG enabled:                             no
>   Napatech enabled:                        no
>
>   Unix socket enabled:                     yes
>   Detection enabled:                       yes
>
>   Libmagic support:                        yes
>   libnss support:                          yes
>   libnspr support:                         yes
>   libjansson support:                      yes
>   hiredis support:                         yes
>   hiredis async with libevent:             no
>   Prelude support:                         yes
>   PCRE jit:                                yes
>   LUA support:                             no
>   libluajit:                               no
>   libgeoip:                                yes
>   Non-bundled htp:                         no
>   Old barnyard2 support:                   no
>   CUDA enabled:                            no
>   Hyperscan support:                       yes
>   Libnet support:                          yes
>
>   Rust support (experimental):             no
>   Experimental Rust parsers:               no
>   Rust strict mode:                        no
>
>   Suricatasc install:                      yes
>
>   Profiling enabled:                       no
>   Profiling locks enabled:                 no
>
> Development settings:
>   Coccinelle / spatch:                     no
>   Unit tests enabled:                      no
>   Debug output enabled:                    no
>   Debug validation enabled:                no
>
> Generic build parameters:
>   Installation prefix:                     /usr/local
>   Configuration directory:                 /usr/local/etc/suricata/
>   Log directory:                           /usr/local/var/log/suricata/
>
>   --prefix                                 /usr/local
>   --sysconfdir                             /usr/local/etc
>   --localstatedir                          /usr/local/var
>
>   Host:                                    x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>   Compiler:                                gcc (exec name) / gcc (real)
>   GCC Protect enabled:                     no
>   GCC march native enabled:                yes
>   GCC Profile enabled:                     no
>   Position Independent Executable enabled: no
>   CFLAGS                                   -g -O2 -march=native
>   PCAP_CFLAGS                               -I/usr/include
>   SECCFLAGS
>
>
> This is Suricata version 4.1.7 RELEASE
>
> Features: DEBUG PCAP_SET_BUFF PF_RING AF_PACKET HAVE_PACKET_FANOUT LIBCAP_NG LIBNET1.1 HAVE_HTP_URI_NORMALIZE_HOOK PCRE_JIT HAVE_NSS HAVE_LIBJANSSON TLS MAGIC RUST
> SIMD support: SSE_4_2 SSE_4_1 SSE_3
> Atomic intrisics: 1 2 4 8 16 byte(s)
> 64-bits, Little-endian architecture
> GCC version 6.3.0 20170516, C version 199901
> compiled with _FORTIFY_SOURCE=0
> L1 cache line size (CLS)=64
> thread local storage method: __thread
> compiled with LibHTP v0.5.32, linked against LibHTP v0.5.32
>
> Suricata Configuration:
>   AF_PACKET support:                       yes
>   eBPF support:                            no
>   XDP support:                             no
>   PF_RING support:                         yes
>   NFQueue support:                         no
>   NFLOG support:                           yes
>   IPFW support:                            no
>   Netmap support:                          no
>   DAG enabled:                             no
>   Napatech enabled:                        no
>   WinDivert enabled:                       no
>
>   Unix socket enabled:                     yes
>   Detection enabled:                       yes
>
>   Libmagic support:                        yes
>   libnss support:                          yes
>   libnspr support:                         yes
>   libjansson support:                      yes
>   liblzma support:                         no
>   hiredis support:                         yes
>   hiredis async with libevent:             no
>   Prelude support:                         yes
>   PCRE jit:                                yes
>   LUA support:                             no
>   libluajit:                               no
>   GeoIP support:                           yes, legacy libgeoip
>   Non-bundled htp:                         no
>   Old barnyard2 support:                   no
>   Hyperscan support:                       yes
>   Libnet support:                          yes
>   liblz4 support:                          no
>
>   Rust support:                            yes
>   Rust strict mode:                        no
>   Rust debug mode:                         no
>   Rust compiler:                           rustc 1.24.1
>   Rust cargo:                              cargo 1.34.0
>   Cargo vendor:                            no
>
>   Install suricatasc:                      yes
>   Install suricata-update:                 yes
>
>   Profiling enabled:                       no
>   Profiling locks enabled:                 no
>
> Development settings:
>   Coccinelle / spatch:                     no
>   Unit tests enabled:                      no
>   Debug output enabled:                    yes
>   Debug validation enabled:                no
>
> Generic build parameters:
>   Installation prefix:                     /usr/local
>   Configuration directory:                 /usr/local/etc/suricata/
>   Log directory:                           /usr/local/var/log/suricata/
>
>   --prefix                                 /usr/local
>   --sysconfdir                             /usr/local/etc
>   --localstatedir                          /usr/local/var
>   --datarootdir                            /usr/local/share
>
>   Host:                                    x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>   Compiler:                                gcc (exec name) / gcc (real)
>   GCC Protect enabled:                     no
>   GCC march native enabled:                yes
>   GCC Profile enabled:                     no
>   Position Independent Executable enabled: no
>   CFLAGS                                   -g -O2 -march=native -I${srcdir}/../rust/gen/c-headers
>   PCAP_CFLAGS                               -I/usr/include
>   SECCFLAGS
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
>
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