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Bug 2118971

Summary: Can't Initialize NSS database
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: LiLiang <liali>
Component: libreswanAssignee: Daiki Ueno <dueno>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version: 8.7Keywords: Regression
Target Milestone: rcFlags: pm-rhel: mirror+
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Hardware: x86_64   
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Last Closed: 2022-08-31 02:30:32 UTC Type: Bug
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Description LiLiang 2022-08-17 09:07:42 UTC 
Description of problem:
on recent RHEL-8.7 distro, Initialize NSS database can't success.
command "ipsec initnss --nssdir /etc/ipsec.d" can't complete.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL-8.7.0-20220815.1
kernel-4.18.0-416.el8.x86_64

  ldns-1.7.0-21.el8.x86_64                      libreswan-4.5-1.el8.x86_64             nspr-4.34.0-3.el8_6.x86_64           nss-3.79.0-9.el8_6.x86_64           nss-softokn-3.79.0-9.el8_6.x86_64     
  nss-softokn-freebl-3.79.0-9.el8_6.x86_64      nss-sysinit-3.79.0-9.el8_6.x86_64      nss-tools-3.79.0-9.el8_6.x86_64      nss-util-3.79.0-9.el8_6.x86_64     

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install distro RHEL-8.7.0-20220815.1
2.yum install -y libreswan
3.ipsec initnss --nssdir /etc/ipsec.d

Actual results:
command "ipsec initnss --nssdir /etc/ipsec.d" can't complete

# ipsec initnss --nssdir /etc/ipsec.d
Initializing NSS database

^C

Expected results:
initialize nss database success using command "ipsec initnss --nssdir /etc/ipsec.d" 

Additional info:
"systemctl start ipsec" also failed with error:

# systemctl start ipsec
Job for ipsec.service failed because a timeout was exceeded.
See "systemctl status ipsec.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

# journalctl -u ipsec -f
-- Logs begin at Wed 2022-08-17 04:47:40 EDT. --
Aug 17 05:04:50 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com systemd[1]: Starting Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Protocol Daemon for IPsec...
Aug 17 05:04:51 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com ipsec[19970]: Initializing NSS database
Aug 17 05:06:21 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com systemd[1]: ipsec.service: start-pre operation timed out. Terminating.
Aug 17 05:06:21 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com ipsec[20009]: nflog ipsec capture disabled
Aug 17 05:06:21 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com systemd[1]: ipsec.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Aug 17 05:06:21 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Protocol Daemon for IPsec.
Aug 17 05:06:21 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com systemd[1]: ipsec.service: Service RestartSec=100ms expired, scheduling restart.
Aug 17 05:06:21 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com systemd[1]: ipsec.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Aug 17 05:06:21 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com systemd[1]: Stopped Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Protocol Daemon for IPsec.
Aug 17 05:06:21 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com systemd[1]: Starting Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Protocol Daemon for IPsec...
Aug 17 05:06:21 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com ipsec[20280]: Initializing NSS database

# systemctl status ipsec.service
● ipsec.service - Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Protocol Daemon for IPsec
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ipsec.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: activating (start-pre) since Wed 2022-08-17 05:06:21 EDT; 40s ago
     Docs: man:ipsec(8)
           man:pluto(8)
           man:ipsec.conf(5)
  Process: 20031 ExecStopPost=/usr/sbin/ipsec --stopnflog (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 20027 ExecStopPost=/bin/bash -c if test "$EXIT_STATUS" != "12"; then /sbin/ip xfrm policy flush; /sbin/ip xfrm state flush; fi (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 20009 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/ipsec --checknflog (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 20041 ExecStartPre=/usr/libexec/ipsec/_stackmanager start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 20039 ExecStartPre=/usr/libexec/ipsec/addconn --config /etc/ipsec.conf --checkconfig (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Cntrl PID: 20280 (ipsec)
    Tasks: 2 (limit: 818791)
   Memory: 1.8M
   CGroup: /system.slice/ipsec.service
           ├─20280 /usr/bin/sh /usr/sbin/ipsec --checknss
           └─20281 certutil -N -d sql:/etc/ipsec.d --empty-password

Aug 17 05:06:21 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com systemd[1]: Starting Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Protocol Daemon for IPsec...
Aug 17 05:06:21 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com ipsec[20280]: Initializing NSS database

# journalctl -xe
-- Unit systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service has finished starting up.
-- 
-- The start-up result is done.
Aug 17 05:04:50 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com systemd[1]: Starting Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Protocol Daemon for IPsec...
-- Subject: Unit ipsec.service has begun start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://access.redhat.com/support
-- 
-- Unit ipsec.service has begun starting up.
Aug 17 05:04:51 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com kernel: IPv4 over IPsec tunneling driver
Aug 17 05:04:51 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com systemd-udevd[19959]: link_config: autonegotiation is unset or enabled, the speed and duplex are not writable.
Aug 17 05:04:51 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com NetworkManager[1955]: <info>  [1660727091.0628] manager: (ip_vti0): new Generic device (/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/10)
Aug 17 05:04:51 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com kernel: IPsec XFRM device driver
Aug 17 05:04:51 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com ipsec[19970]: Initializing NSS database
Aug 17 05:06:21 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com systemd[1]: ipsec.service: start-pre operation timed out. Terminating.
Aug 17 05:06:21 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com ipsec[20009]: nflog ipsec capture disabled
Aug 17 05:06:21 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com systemd[1]: ipsec.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
-- Subject: Unit failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://access.redhat.com/support
-- 
-- The unit ipsec.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'timeout'.
Aug 17 05:06:21 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Protocol Daemon for IPsec.
-- Subject: Unit ipsec.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://access.redhat.com/support
-- 
-- Unit ipsec.service has failed.
-- 
-- The result is failed.
Aug 17 05:06:21 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com systemd[1]: ipsec.service: Service RestartSec=100ms expired, scheduling restart.
Aug 17 05:06:21 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com systemd[1]: ipsec.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
-- Subject: Automatic restarting of a unit has been scheduled
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://access.redhat.com/support
-- 
-- Automatic restarting of the unit ipsec.service has been scheduled, as the result for
-- the configured Restart= setting for the unit.
Aug 17 05:06:21 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com systemd[1]: Stopped Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Protocol Daemon for IPsec.
-- Subject: Unit ipsec.service has finished shutting down
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://access.redhat.com/support
-- 
-- Unit ipsec.service has finished shutting down.
Aug 17 05:06:21 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com systemd[1]: Starting Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Protocol Daemon for IPsec...
-- Subject: Unit ipsec.service has begun start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://access.redhat.com/support
-- 
-- Unit ipsec.service has begun starting up.
Aug 17 05:06:21 dell-per750-13.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com ipsec[20280]: Initializing NSS database
Comment 1 LiLiang 2022-08-17 09:11:01 UTC 
This looks like a regression.

It can't be reproduce using below software versions:

RHEL-8.7.0-20220808.1
4.18.0-415.el8.x86_64

ldns-1.7.0-21.el8.x86_64                      libreswan-4.5-1.el8.x86_64             nspr-4.34.0-3.el8_6.x86_64           nss-3.79.0-8.el8_6.x86_64           nss-softokn-3.79.0-8.el8_6.x86_64     
  nss-softokn-freebl-3.79.0-8.el8_6.x86_64      nss-sysinit-3.79.0-8.el8_6.x86_64      nss-tools-3.79.0-8.el8_6.x86_64      nss-util-3.79.0-8.el8_6.x86_64