Bug 213525 - NetworkManager is core dumping on an error condition
Summary: NetworkManager is core dumping on an error condition
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: NetworkManager
Version: 6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dan Williams
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard: bzcl34nup
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-11-01 20:22 UTC by Jeff Law
Modified: 2008-05-06 16:39 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Clone Of:
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Last Closed: 2008-05-06 16:39:41 UTC
Type: ---
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close stream iff it is non-null on error (549 bytes, patch)
2006-11-01 20:22 UTC, Jeff Law
no flags Details | Diff

Description Jeff Law 2006-11-01 20:22:22 UTC
Description of problem:
NetworkManager core dumps if the root filesystem is read-only due to incorrect
handling of errors when updating /etc/resolv.conf.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
FC6, probably all others.

How reproducible:
Allow NetworkManager to bring up an interface on a system with a readonly root
filesystem.

In nm-named-manager.c::rewrite_resolv_conf we try to fopen a temporary file to
hold the new contents for /etc/resolv.conf.  If that fopen fails "f" will be set
to NULL and we "goto lose" to gracefully handle the error condition.

Unfortunately, the error handling code blindly does an "fclose (f)", which will
core dump if "f" is NULL.

The right thing to do is close the stream if and only if it is non-NULL.

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 Jeff Law 2006-11-01 20:22:22 UTC
Created attachment 140031 [details]
close stream iff it is non-null on error

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 04:20:21 UTC
Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted
on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to
make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks.

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please note that Fedora no longer maintains these releases. We strongly
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for releases which are no longer maintained and closing them.
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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-05-06 16:39:39 UTC
This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and
will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
Fedora please feel free to reopen thus bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.


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