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Re: (ITS#8434) Config entry cleanup on Add should be run unconditionally

okuznik@symas.com wrote:
> Full_Name: Ondrej Kuznik
> Version: master
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> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> Submission from: (NULL) (2a02:c7f:221f:c00:a3e:8eff:fe52:dac5)
>
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> With cn=config the ConfigLDAPadd function might have to allocate resources that
> are needed by the time the attributes/config directives are being processed
> since there is no indication which directives there are and what order they come
> in.

When using LDAPAdd, attributes are processed in the order of their schema 
definitions.

> If any of the config values fail validation, the configuration code has to react
> and clean up - which is possible using ca->cleanup.

No, that's not its purpose. If anything fails, the entire config entry must be 
wiped out. LDAPAdd is all-or-nothing.

> While Modify handling (config_modify_internal) already calls ca->cleanup in each
> case, this is not true for config_add_internal, there it is only run on success.

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