winbind Backtrace if NSS_STATUS_UNAVAIL

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Mon Sep 19 16:54:16 GMT 2005


On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 04:26:31PM +0200, Ingo Steuwer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've had a problem on a Memberserver where Samba 3.0.20 gives an Backtrace in 
> log.smbd[0] after there were problems in the communication with the Samba-PDC 
> in this network. 
> 
> The Backtrace itself is a result of recursive calls of 
> winbindd_request_response in wb_common.c. If the result is 
> "NT_STATUS_UNAVAIL" it loops to wait for a connection (up to 10 times) and 
> calls winbindd_send_request, which calls through write_sock and 
> winbind_open_pipe_sock again winbindd_request_response. This ends up in 
> arbitrary deep recursions.
> 
> Regards
> Ingo Steuwer

*Excellent* detective work - great catch. I'll look into fixing this
asap ! Would you be willing to try patches for me ?

Thanks,

	Jeremy.


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