replication rename fixes in 4.1

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sun Apr 13 17:06:22 MDT 2014


On Fri, 2014-04-04 at 09:34 +1300, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-04-03 at 16:09 +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> > Am 26.03.2014 21:41, schrieb Andrew Bartlett:
> > > On Wed, 2014-03-26 at 20:48 +0100, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> > >> Hi Andrew,
> > >>
> > >> a while ago you fixed some rename problems during incoming replication.
> > >>
> > >> I saw a domain with 4.0 where some corruption happened.
> > >>
> > >> An object was created on DC1 then replicated to DC2.
> > >> Then the DCs lost their link and the object was
> > >> deleted on DC2 and modified on DC1.
> > >>
> > >> When the link came back DC2 replicated the modification
> > >> from DC1 and renamed the object to its original dn,
> > >> as always used the incoming dn,
> > >> which means the "cn" and "name" attributes doesn't match the rdn
> > >> in the dn anymore.
> > >>
> > >> Then the result is replicated back to DC1 and there we have the original dn
> > >> and original "name" attribute while "cn" is the correct value with \nDEL.
> > >>
> > >> Is this the problem you intended to fix?
> > > 
> > > Yes, I think this was the kind of issue I was trying to fix, but this
> > > may also be an additional issue.  The main issue was around deleted
> > > objects un-deleting themselves (moving out from under CN=Deleted
> > > Objects), and instead gaining their original name from the other replica
> > > again. 
> > 
> > Yes, they get back their original dn, while the 'name' attribute
> > still has the correct value. As the RDN value is replicated implicitly
> > it's also wrong on all but one DC (the one that created the problem, it
> > still has the RDN value == name value).
> > 
> > Here're some patches for dbcheck and a simple bug fix I found during the
> > developement.
> > 
> > I've created https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10536 for it.
> 
> If you captured a testing sam.ldb in that state, can we please have it
> for our dbcheck tests?
> 
> I'll shortly propose something similar for the missing-object-class
> test, with the database artefacts from my testing there yesterday.

Patch #3 explains why we could not replicate in deleted objects
correctly, Thanks!

Any chance you got the sam.ldb we can test on.  I'm happy to do the
transformation into the testing commit if you can get me the private/
and etc/ dirs.

Andrew Bartlett
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