[Samba] On Debian 12: nsupdate (as called from samba_dnsupdate) crashes named/bind9_dlz

[Steven Monai]

On 2023-05-22 2:07 p.m., Andrew Bartlett via samba wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-05-22 at 11:15 +0200, Robert Grimm via samba wrote:
>> Steven Monai via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>>> On 2023-05-20 1:43 a.m., Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
>>>> On 20/05/2023 04:44, Steven Monai via samba wrote:
>>
>>>>> I found an open bug in bugzilla that reports a very similar assertion
>>>>> failure: "Bug 14030 - named crashes on DLZ zone update"
>>>>> (https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14030). Any chance this
>>>>> Bug is related to what I'm seeing?
>>>>
>>>> That appears to be a Samba problem, whilst yours appears to possibly be
>>>> a Bind9 problem.
>>
>> It is a samba problem that causes bind9 to crash.
> 
> I totally agree.  Our plugin is not well-restrained in the C symbol
> names it exports.  Longer term we should restrict the symbols the
> plugin exports, like we do for libnss_winbind etc.
> 
>>> Maybe. But nevermind that Bug; it appears to be FreeBSD-specific,
>>> and I
>>> am using Linux (more specifically Debian, on amd64 architecture).
>>
>> I use the patch from the bug on debian and the chrashes of named I
>> had
>> constantly are gone.
> 
> I'm very sorry that this bug hasn't got the final push into our
> releases, particularly given all the work and diagnostics that have
> gone into it.
> 
> I've reviewed the patch and assigned it to our release manager, it
> should end up in new releases soon.  In the meantime you can file a
> debian bug to get the patch into those packages sooner, as they have
> now been vetted upstream.

This is great news! Thanks, Andrew.

I have reported this bug to the Debian tracker:
https://bugs.debian.org/1036587

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-S.M.