[Samba] Samba 3.0.21b winbind crash

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Thomas Limoncelli wrote:

> I agree that this'd be a useful generic change to limit the
> *consequences* of any tdb cache file corruption (which winbindd should
> still avoid to contribute to in the first place, of course).
>
> Are you saying that we'll see such a change in one of the upcoming
> releases (3.0.21c or 3.0.22)?

Maybe for 3.0.22.  I had some code that did this once before.
I think Jeremy was the original author but it got removed from
the tree a year or so ago.

> I still have the original (problematic) tdb file around, so I could
> easily verify if winbindd still crashes upon *reading* this file. Would
> you be interested?

No.  That's ok.  I have a tool to corrupt tdbs for tests like this.
:-)

> Reproducing the fact that winbindd *produced* a corrupted 
> tdb file is likely to be much harder.

True.





cheers, jerry
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