Bug 25519

Summary:	rpc.rstatd crashes on linux 2.4.0
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Urban Widmark <urban>
Component:	rusers	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	7.1	CC:	chrismcc
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Description Urban Widmark 2001-02-01 21:03:00 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1-pre11 i686)


rpc.rstatd parses /proc/stat to find various system info. When doing so it
assumes that the data read will be in a certain format, and matches on
keywords.

If one keyword is missing it will segfault. Linux 2.4 reports disk
information differently from 2.2 and rusers assumes 2.2 format.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. /etc/init.d/portmap start
2. /etc/init.d/rstatd
3. xmeter -load localhost -update 1
   (or some other tool for displaying rstatd stats)


I have a patch that modifies it to read 2.4 format too. Untested on 2.2.
Also, note that this patch has the same problem as the old code if the
format changes again.
	http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/rstatd-linux2.4.patch
This needs to be applied after the "jbj" patch in the rpm.

Comment 1 Glen Foster 2001-02-02 22:57:17 UTC

We (Red Hat) should really fix this before next release

Comment 2 Nalin Dahyabhai 2001-02-06 21:15:51 UTC

This will be fixed in rusers-0.17-9 (with a more minimalistic patch -- if it
changes again, I'll probably switch it to using regex as your patch does). 
Thanks!