[Samba] Samba 3.6.x: smbd receives sigpipe and crashes

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Aug 3 13:43:13 MDT 2012


On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 04:11:53PM +0200, Arkadiusz Bubała wrote:
> Hello,
> I've got problems with Samba 3.6.0 up to 3.6.6. Forked smbd
> processes are closing unexpectedly and sometimes smbd server exits.
> (In Samba 3.5.16 everything works).
> When invoke smbd from gdb and turn off SIGPIPE passing (by command
> "handle SIGPIPE nostop nopass") everything works fine. I found out
> that SigBlk flag of forked smbd processes in /proc/*/status is:
> 0000000000000880 and should be 0000000000001880 (It works in Samba
> 3.5.16).
> This flag changes after invoking getpwnam function, after passing
> string "guest+workgroup" to it.
> There is probably a memory leak or something.
> 
> Does anyone have similiar problem?

What platform are you running Samba on ?


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