samba4 RC3 RPC server process crashing!

Greg Dickie greg at justaguy.ca
Tue Oct 23 16:08:39 MDT 2012


Sending to the list, sorry

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Greg Dickie <greg at justaguy.ca> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>     I just stuck in a return after the 'extra bytes' warning in case it
> was a buffer overflow and it's been running almost an hour now which is
> MUCH better. Any chance that was it and some bad PC was just sending crap
> on the network?
>
> I can run under valgrind if you want. Just need to set that up.
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 13:46 -0400, Greg Dickie wrote:
>> > More info. Looks like replication. I got a core file:
>>
>> Are you able to reproduce this under valgrind?
>>
>> What's happened here is that our server-side application logic (almost
>> certainly in the cracknames code) has left a structure only partially
>> initialised.  Then we wander off the end of the wild pointer.
>>
>> I'll look into the recent changes in this area, but valgrind would
>> pinpoint it instantly.
>>
>> Andrew Bartlett
>>
>> --
>> Andrew Bartlett
>> http://samba.org/~abartlet/
>> Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
>
>
> Greg Dickie
> just a guy
>



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