Re: (ITS#6500) get_ldap_property returns stale data from time to time

[masarati@aero.polimi.it]

Not clear why you think this is an OpenLDAP bug.  There's too little
information to determine whether your application is using OpenLDAP's
client library correctly.

p.

> Full_Name: Alin Vasile
> Version: 2.4.19
> OS: SuSE 11
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> Submission from: (NULL) (194.237.142.17)
>
>
> Hi,
>
>   In a high load apache environment I am performing some ldap searches for
> some
> requests using a custom developed application and the OpenLdap client
> libraries.
>>From time to time I have the following segmentation fault:
>
> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> #0  0x00000000004033b9 in get_ldap_property (ldap=0x764870,
> entry=0x841160,
> attribute=0x87aa50 "smIMEI", context=0x76fc38)
>     at ldap_query.c:30
> 30          if ( v != NULL && v[0] != NULL ) {
> (gdb) backtrace
> #0  0x00000000004033b9 in get_ldap_property (ldap=0x764870,
> entry=0x841160,
> attribute=0x87aa50 "smIMEI", context=0x76fc38)
>     at ldap_query.c:30
> #1  0x00000000004040f7 in query (pool=0x76fc38, ep=0x610290,
> ldap_request=0x76ff60) at ldap_query.c:353
>
> And the function is :
>
> char * get_ldap_property(LDAP* ldap, LDAPMessage *entry, char* attribute,
> apr_pool_t* context) {
>
>     char ** v = ldap_get_values(ldap, entry, attribute);
>
>     if ( v != NULL && v[0] != NULL ) {
>         char* ret = apr_pstrdup(context,  v[0] );
>         ldap_value_free( v );
>         return ret;
>     }
>
>     return NULL;
>
> }
>
> Note that most of the queries (99%) work fine.
>
> Did anyone experienced something simmilar?
>
> Thanks,
> Alin
>