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knot-resolver: Enable reloading of policy files (add lua-cqueues)

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From: Simon South <simon <at> simonsouth.net>
To: 41363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#41363] knot-resolver: Enable reloading of policy files (add lua-cqueues)
Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 10:46:05 -0400

This patch series enables the automatic reloading of response-policy
zone (RPZ) files by Knot Resolver. Specifically these patches

- Add package definitions for the cqueues Lua extension module and the
  luaossl module on which it relies, and

- Add lua5.1-cqueues as an input to knot-resolver.

With these changes applied, Knot Resolver can be configured with lines
like

    modules = { 'policy' }
    policy.add(policy.rpz(policy.DENY, '/etc/dns/blacklist.txt', true))

and it will automatically reload RPZ rules from /etc/dns/blacklist.txt
whenever that file changes. This makes it easy to use Knot Resolver to
block unwanted sites using a list of domains downloaded periodically
from the Internet.

I've tested these changes on x86-64 and aarch64. On x86-64 everything
works as expected.

On aarch64, the packages build and install fine but Knot Resolver fails
to load the configuration above with

    policy.lua:430: [poli] lua-cqueues required to watch and reload RPZ file

This is due to a known issue with LuaJIT on aarch64 (see e.g.
https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/pull/230):

    $ ./pre-inst-env guix environment knot-resolver --ad-hoc knot-resolver
    $ $(head -n 3 `which kresd` | tail -n 2)  # set LUA_PATH, LUA_CPATH
    $ luajit -e 'require("cqueues")'
    luajit: bad light userdata pointer
    stack traceback:
            [C]: at 0xffffa556a960
            [C]: in function 'require'
            ...
    $

Otherwise (i.e. after changing "true" to "false" in the configuration
above) Knot Resolver continues to work as it did before, so I expect
existing users will not be affected.

I'll work on diagnosing the upstream bug but thought I'd submit these
patches in the meantime.

--
Simon South
simon <at> simonsouth.net

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