SAMBA_3_0: winbindd is a fork-bomb

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Fri Jan 19 18:44:58 GMT 2007


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Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 12:30:20PM -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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>> Jeremy,
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>> The current winbindd is a fork bomb.  Did you test this without
>> enabling the offline mode ?  I keep seeing the fork_child_dc_connect()
>> called over and over.  The backtrace is from the first domain child
>> (i.e. the one for our domain).
> 
> No I think I only tested it with offline mode turned on, sorry.
> I'll look at this asap.

Looks like run_events() never gets out of the
while (event_ctx->timed_events) {...} loop.



jerry

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