[Bloat] New OpenWrt release fixing several dnsmasq CVEs

[Jonathan Foulkes]

I figure there should be no inter-dependencies there, but the side-effect of the new dnsmasq is pretty serious.

I did not install .6, I only performed an opkg update of the dnamasq package itself. So kernal is the same in my case.

But others running a full .6 build report similar QoS issues.

I regressed back to .4 and all is good on the QoS front, waiting until a new drop of dnsmasq before trying again.

- Jonathan

> On Jan 22, 2021, at 4:15 PM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> wrote:
> 
> Jonathan Foulkes <jf at jonathanfoulkes.com> writes:
> 
>> I installed the updated package on a 19.07.4 box running cake, and QoS performance went down the tubes.
>> Last night it locked up completely while attempting to stream.
>> 
>> See the PingPlots others have posted to this forum thread, mine look similar, went from constant sub 50ms to very spiky, then some loss, loss increasing, and if high traffic, lock-up.
>> https://forum.openwrt.org/t/security-advisory-2021-01-19-1-dnsmasq-multiple-vulnerabilities/85903/39
>> 
>> load is low, sirq is low, so box does not seem stressed.
>> 
>> Any reason Cake would be sensitive to a dnsmasq bug?
> 
> No, not really. I mean, dnsmasq could be sending some traffic that
> interferes with stuff? Or it could be a kernel regression - the release
> did bump the kernel version as well...
> 
> -Toke