Re: bug in sshd - signal during free()

2001-09-22 Thread Valentin Nechayev
Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 14:04:05, dillon (Matt Dillon) wrote about "Re: bug in sshd - signal during free()": > It's funny... they had an XXX comment in there so obviously someone > was a little jittery about it. I think they just didn't realize that >

Re: bug in sshd - signal during free()

2001-09-17 Thread Julian Elischer
signale interrupying 'free' is ok.. Free is not 'signal-safe' so no malloc/free can be done in a signal.. set the malloc config that catches recursive frees&malocs. On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > sshd died on one of our machines today. The traceback seems to > indicate that

Re: Proposed patch (was Re: bug in sshd - signal during free())

2001-09-17 Thread Matt Dillon
I forwarded the whole thing to Brian. We'll wait to see what he decides to do. Obviously a fix like this needs to go, it's just a matter of who, how, and when. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebs

Re: bug in sshd - signal during free()

2001-09-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010917 16:04] wrote: > > : > :* Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010917 15:32] wrote: > :> sshd died on one of our machines today. The traceback seems to > :> indicate that a signal is interrupting a free(). I'm going to > :> play with the code a

Re: bug in sshd - signal during free()

2001-09-17 Thread Matt Dillon
: :* Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010917 15:32] wrote: :> sshd died on one of our machines today. The traceback seems to :> indicate that a signal is interrupting a free(). I'm going to :> play with the code a bit to see if there's an easy fix. :> :> This bug can't occur

Re: bug in sshd - signal during free()

2001-09-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010917 15:32] wrote: > sshd died on one of our machines today. The traceback seems to > indicate that a signal is interrupting a free(). I'm going to > play with the code a bit to see if there's an easy fix. > > This bug can't occur very ofte

Re: Proposed patch (was Re: bug in sshd - signal during free())

2001-09-17 Thread Peter Wemm
Matt Dillon wrote: > I looked at the code and there is definitely a serious issue. This > proposed patch should solve the problem. Here it is for review before > I commit it and send a bug report off to the openssh folks. I am testing > it now. If it is going into the vendor re

Proposed patch (was Re: bug in sshd - signal during free())

2001-09-17 Thread Matt Dillon
I looked at the code and there is definitely a serious issue. This proposed patch should solve the problem. Here it is for review before I commit it and send a bug report off to the openssh folks. I am testing it now. -Matt Index

bug in sshd - signal during free()

2001-09-17 Thread Matt Dillon
sshd died on one of our machines today. The traceback seems to indicate that a signal is interrupting a free(). I'm going to play with the code a bit to see if there's an easy fix. This bug can't occur very often... the key regeneration signal has to occur *just* as sshd i