We use capped exponential backoff in several places in the code when handling
failures. The code we've copy-and-pasted all over has a check to see if the
backoff is greater than the limit, but this check happens after the bitshift and
we always increment the number of attempts. This causes an overflow with a
fairly small number of failures (ex. at one place I tested it occurs after only
24 iterations), resulting in a negative backoff which then never recovers. The
backoff becomes a tight loop consuming resources and/or DoS'ing a Nomad RPC
handler or an external API such as Vault. Note this doesn't occur in places
where we cap the number of iterations so the loop breaks (usually to return an
error), so long as the number of iterations is reasonable.
Introduce a helper with a check on the cap before the bitshift to avoid overflow in all
places this can occur.
Fixes: #18199
Co-authored-by: stswidwinski <stan.swidwinski@gmail.com>
This PR replaces use of time.After with a safe helper function
that creates a time.Timer to use instead. The new function returns
both a time.Timer and a Stop function that the caller must handle.
Unlike time.NewTimer, the helper function does not panic if the duration
set is <= 0.
Instead of checking Consul's version on startup to see if it supports
TLSSkipVerify, assume that it does and only log in the job service
handler if we discover Consul does not support TLSSkipVerify.
The old code would break TLSSkipVerify support if Nomad started before
Consul (such as on system boot) as TLSSkipVerify would default to false
if Consul wasn't running. Since TLSSkipVerify has been supported since
Consul 0.7.2, it's safe to relax our handling.
