[PATCH] Fix an assertion check

Anoop C S anoopcs at autistici.org
Fri Aug 3 10:13:02 UTC 2018


On Tue, 2018-07-31 at 15:53 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 02:59:05PM +0530, Anoop C S wrote:
> > On Mon, 2018-07-30 at 16:20 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hmmm. Maybe. This code has been in use for over 10 years
> > > and hasn't caused an issue.
> > 
> > I came across this difference in assertion check while tracking down a
> > back trace from https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13439#c1.
> > The very same panic was also reported internally for us. Unfortunately
> > we do not have a reproducer in both cases. I have asked for further
> > debugging information and/or any steps to follow which might lead to
> > this assertion failure.
> > 
> > Meanwhile I am trying to figure out if some sequence of lock and unlock
> > requests(with specific offset and size) together with close can result
> > in this assertion failure situation with current code.
> > 
> > > I'm OK with fixing on next release cycle.
> 
> In that case I think I'm wrong, we should raise a bug
> and back-port.

I have opened https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13558 to update on this smb_panic issue.

> Sorry, didn't know you'd actually seen
> this as a real panic.
> 
> Jeremy.




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