Re: Kurt's reply (Was: change submission)

[Kurt Spanier <zrnsk01@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Hallvard,

comming back to your bug-report.

I do not see what the problem is. ldbm_datum_free() is defined three times
in ldbm.c . Once for Berkeley-DB, once for GDBM (in both cases the dptr
element of the data structure is free´ed as the only action), and once for
NDBM, where it is a simple return. So calling the function with Berkeley
DB will free the memory allocated after a key/data retrieval, or any other
allocation of memeory for that pointer.

However, the free() is unconditional, and some calls to ldbm_datum_free()
were not captured by appropriate tests for non-NULL pointers in
slapd/tools/ldbmcat, ldbmtest and sizecount. I have fixed that in my local
copy of -devel. As soon as Kurt has build the release, I could commit the
changes. Nevertheless, I had no problem with the umich code as is for more
than half a year in production, both in DB 1.85 compatibility and DB 2.x
mode, as well as the OpenLDAP code during some inmitial tests.

BUT, we MAY have a problem with ldbm_datum_free(), if someone uses flag
DB_DBT_USERMEM with DB 2.x, avoiding memory allocation by DB itself,
instead using a self-provided storage (pointed to in (Datum).dptr, with
size in (Datum).ulen). If this storage is a static buffer, free() indeed
may fail. However, In the DB 2.x code I provided in ldbm.c, DB_DBT_MALLOC
together with a self-provided ldbm_malloc() function is used.


Regards,
Kurt


On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:

> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 09:28:27 +0100 (MET)
> From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
> To: Kurt Spanier <kurt.spanier@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
> Cc: openldap-core@openldap.org
> Subject: Re: Kurt's reply (Was: change submission)
> 
> Kurt Spanier writes:
> > I will look for integration of Sleepycat´s latest (BETA) code of Berkeley
> > DB (i.e., 2.6.4).
> 
> Maybe you could pick up this report too?
> 
> Hallvard B Furuseth writes:
> > From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
> > To: openldap-bugs@openldap.org
> > Subject: malloc bugs
> > Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 08:26:35 +0100 (MET)
> > Message-ID: <HBF.981123gq8j@bombur2.uio.no>
> > 
> > (...)
> > 
> > Somebody who knows db-1.85 and Sleepycat should check this:
> >   Files: include/ldbm.h, libraries/libldbm/ldbm.c.
> >   All ldbm functions except some versions of ldbm_<first/next>_key
> >   appear to return newly allocated data which the caller should free.
> >   (If the underlying database doesn't malloc the data, then ldbm does it
> >   for you - and ldbm_datum_free reflects whether or not the underlying
> >   service does malloc).  So, ldbm_datum_free() should probably only be
> >   used on data from ldbm_<first/next>key; other data should be plain
> >   free()d.  Today, ldbm_datum_free is used on all kinds of Datum values.
> 
> -- 
> Hallvard
> 


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