Re: (ITS#5927) assertion error when using pcache

[ando@sys-net.it]

mhardin@symas.com wrote:
> Full_Name: Matthew Hardin
> Version: 2.4.13
> OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 i686
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> Submission from: (NULL) (74.38.114.185)
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> We have an LDAP server that is proxying for Active Directory. Periodically slapd
> throws an assertion:
> 
> slapd: [....]/ldap24/servers/slapd/schema_init.c:524: octetStringIndexer:
> Assertion `i > 0' failed.
> /etc/init.d/solserver: line 192:  6620 Aborted                 (core dumped)
> "$EXEC_DIR/$PROC" $ARGS -h "$HOST_LIST" $EXTRA_SLAPD_ARGS
> 
> Howard Chu's examination of the core file showed that the remote AD server
> returned a member attribute with no values. This is only legal in LDAP when a
> client sets the attrsonly flag in its search request, and that flag was not set
> here.
> 
> The indexer rightly asserts because pcache handed it an attribute with nothing
> to 
> index.
> 
> I'm not sure what the correct thing to do might be here, but it should not take
> down the slapd.

The entry should not be cached, IMHO.

p.


Ing. Pierangelo Masarati
OpenLDAP Core Team

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