[Pkg-openldap-devel] ?==?utf-8?q? Strange segfault with 2.4.44+dfsg-1 from git

[Ralf Mattes]

Am Montag, 24. Oktober 2016 16:54 CEST, Ryan Tandy <ryan at nardis.ca> schrieb:

> This looks like ITS#8512.
> 
> http://www.openldap.org/its/?findid=8512

Indeed - I somehow missed that.

> 
> There doesn't seem to be a fix at this time.

Which is bad. I can reliably trigger this segfault which prevents me from updating my servers.

> 
> I have not been able to reproduce the problem. Any information leading 
> to being able to reproduce it would be very helpful, especially since 
> the team have begun preparing for a 2.4.45 release. This sounds like an 
> important bug to fix.

As I said, it only happens during searches that return substantial amounts of data.
The only way to reliably trigger the segfault is by requesting jpegImage attributes.


> 
> The ITS claims that this might have been introduced in 2.4.40. 

That's how it looks from the backtrace/source code

> I have 
> not been able to reproduce this in that version. Would it be possible 
> for you to check whether this occurs in the version in jessie?

Tricky, that instance is needed as a workarround to the config parser bug in slapo-rwm, remember ;-)
Hmm, just checked one more thing: this seems to be only happening when querying a relay-backend.

HTH RalfD

> 
> Thanks for your help!