FW: atexit-handler causes segfault when dlopen-ed libldap is unloaded prior to program termination (ITS#1577)

["Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com>]

Perhaps we should instead have a public ldap_pvt_destroy() function that
callers explicitly used to clean up the LDAP library?

  -- Howard Chu
  Chief Architect, Symas Corp.       Director, Highland Sun
  http://www.symas.com               http://highlandsun.com/hyc
  Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-openldap-bugs@OpenLDAP.org
[mailto:owner-openldap-bugs@OpenLDAP.org] On Behalf Of argggh@linpro.no
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 1:24 AM
To: openldap-its@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: atexit-handler causes segfault when dlopen-ed libldap is
unloaded prior to program termination (ITS#1577)


Full_Name: Arne Georg Gleditsch
Version: 2.0.21
OS: GNU/Linux
URL:
Submission from: (NULL) (213.203.57.130)


openldap-2.0.21/libraries/libldap/init.c contains the statement
"atexit(ldap_int_destroy_global_options)".  This causes programs
that load and unload libldap using dlopen to segfault upon termination because
one of the exit handlers reside in now unmapped memory.  Trivial example
program:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <dlfcn.h>

int main() {
    void *(* ldap_init)(const char *, int);
    void *ldap = NULL;
    char *error;

    void *handle = dlopen("libldap.so.2", RTLD_LAZY);

    if (error = dlerror()) {
	printf("%s\n", error);
	exit();
    }

    ldap_init = dlsym(handle, "ldap_init");
    if (error = dlerror()) {
	printf("%s\n", error);
	exit();
    }

    printf("libldap loaded.\n");

    ldap_init("localhost", 389);

    dlclose(handle);

    printf("libldap unloaded.\n");
}

This is a real problem with pam-ldap, as su is now segfaulting at exit on my
systems. Other services are likely affected as well.