https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5105

[David Collier-Brown]

Volker Lendecke wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Now that we have bugzilla bugging me every day about "my"
> bugs, I'd like to raise $SUBJECT again. It contains a change
> to tdb to bail out if a hash chain is longer than one
> million elements and the freelist is longer than ten million
> elements. This is intended as a measure against corruped
> tdbs making smbd chew 100% CPU forever, but it might
> invalidate some valid (but pretty slow) tdb files.
>
> Comments?
>
> Volker
>   
You might keep a copy of the previous chain length when you add,
and warn if it goes from, say, 26 to 10240 (;-))

--dave

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