Bug #119766 Rows unexpectedly added in performance_schema for failed connections
Description:
Starting in 8.0.44, failed connection attempts add a row to performance_schema.accounts, performance_schema.users, and others.
Rows should only be added when authentication succeeds.
For example, in performance_schema.accounts:
When authentication fails, we expect the table with NULL for USER and HOST to be updated.
See documentation:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/performance-schema-accounts-table.html#:~:text=for...
However, starting in 8.0.44, a new row is created for failed connection attempts.
If many failed connection attempts are issued from unique users (that may or may not exist), performance_schema can become bloated and use more memory than it should.
How to repeat:
1. Enable performance_schema and restart
2. Try to connect to MySQL as a user that does not exist (FYI anonymous user ''@'%' must not be present)
3. 'select * performance_schema.accounts' and observe the row created for the user from step 2
Suggested fix:
Revert https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/commit/a7ad97839cfb2302fe5985fd5964bb4301d62bbf#diff...
The change in sql_authentication.cc runs the PSI instrumentation code for all connection attempts.
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