Bug 446802

Summary: segfault if syslog message is longer than 80 characters
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Andrew Ryan <aryan>
Component: piranhaAssignee: Marek Grac <mgrac>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: 5.1CC: cluster-maint, herrold, tao, tsteneker
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Description David Robinson 2008-05-16 06:47:17 UTC 
Description of problem:
nanny segfaults if it tries to log messages (syslog) that are longer than 80
characters.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
piranha-0.8.4-7.el5

How reproducible:
Not sure.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Not sure.
  
Actual results:
Pulse fails to start since all started nanny processes die right after startup:
Mar 28 15:06:28 hzmlldbb01 pulse[20661]: STARTING PULSE AS MASTER
Mar 28 15:06:38 hzmlldbb01 pulse[20661]: partner dead: activating lvs
Mar 28 15:06:38 hzmlldbb01 lvs[20682]: starting virtual service
micromoney-comfort.de-https active: 443
Mar 28 15:06:38 hzmlldbb01 lvs[20682]: create_monitor for
micromoney-comfort.de-https/hzmlweb01 running as pid 20696
Mar 28 15:06:38 hzmlldbb01 kernel: nanny[20696]: segfault at 0000000000000001
rip 0000003b98c76150 rsp 00007fff331c7528 error 4
Mar 28 15:06:38 hzmlldbb01 kernel: nanny[20697]: segfault at 0000000000000001
rip 0000003b98c76150 rsp 00007fff4de9c208 error 4

Expected results:
No segmentation fault. pulse and nanny start successfully.

Additional info:
The problem was returned on the linux-cluster mailing list. Patch is attached.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-cluster/2007-November/msg00153.html
Comment 1 David Robinson 2008-05-16 06:47:17 UTC 
Created attachment 305642 [details]
patch from email thread
Comment 6 Vince Worthington 2008-07-03 16:51:29 UTC 
Created attachment 310940 [details]
corefile
Comment 8 Marek Grac 2008-07-09 13:22:16 UTC 
Patch applied, vsnprintf was not used in any other source file.
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2009-01-20 20:54:39 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0095.html
Comment 13 Marek Grac 2009-02-10 16:31:01 UTC 
*** Bug 476810 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***