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Re: OpenLDAP dumps core (on SMP system) (ITS#1319)



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On Thu, Sep 06, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:

We were now able to track down the problem a little bit:

> At 09:24 AM 2001-09-06, choeger@suse.de wrote:
> >Full_Name: Carsten Hoeger
> >Version: 2.0.12 and 2.0.11
> >OS: Linux (Kernel 2.4.7, glibc-2.2.2)
> >URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> >Submission from: (NULL) (213.95.15.201)
>=20
> Seems like that thread's stack was trashed. ldap_str2matchingrule
> doesn't recurse and is only called by slapd at startup.  You
> might look into what other threads were doing and dig into
> logs for any clue.   You also might experiment with
> OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2 to see if it behaves in the same manner.
>=20
>=20

On Fri, Sep 07, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> servers/slapd/back-ldbm/idl.c:idl_intersection computes the intersection
> of a big set with a singleton set.  But the big set is not correctly
> sorted, and even contains some ids twice, including the member of the
> singleton set.  It then puts two entries in the result set which has only
> place for one entry, and therefore writes beyond allocated space.  Thus
> the problem is that an id set is not correctly sorted at one point.
>=20
> Andreas.
>=20
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>=20

We tried then to recreate the backend (stop slapd, slapcat, slapadd)
and after this, slapd runs fine.

So it was a corrupt backend, that causes the problem.

Andreas Schwab also wrote a little check function, which is attached
to this mail.


P.S.: We used OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2

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