Re: [Nagios-devel] SIGSEGV in check.c on Solaris when plugin output
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:37 pm
[email protected] wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> nagios dumps core with SIGSEV on Solaris 10 when a plugin does not print
> any output.
> Using gdb I found it happening in line 803 of base/checks.c, where
> checkresult_dbuf.buf is 0x0 on empty plugin output.
>
> Versions:
> - nagios-3.0.3 and nagios-cvs (as of 24. Sept 2008)
> - Solaris 10 x86
> - both Sun Studio 11 and gcc
>
> I tried a fix just in place by inserting a NULL pointer check just
> before the fprintf in line 803 ... maybe there is a more elegant solution.
>
> On linux, glibc seems to handel this problem in printf("output=%s",
> NULL) by returning the string "(null)".
>
>
> Regards,
> Torsten
> ===
Thanks! Patch will be in CVS shortly.
- Ethan Galstad
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>
> Hi list,
>
> nagios dumps core with SIGSEV on Solaris 10 when a plugin does not print
> any output.
> Using gdb I found it happening in line 803 of base/checks.c, where
> checkresult_dbuf.buf is 0x0 on empty plugin output.
>
> Versions:
> - nagios-3.0.3 and nagios-cvs (as of 24. Sept 2008)
> - Solaris 10 x86
> - both Sun Studio 11 and gcc
>
> I tried a fix just in place by inserting a NULL pointer check just
> before the fprintf in line 803 ... maybe there is a more elegant solution.
>
> On linux, glibc seems to handel this problem in printf("output=%s",
> NULL) by returning the string "(null)".
>
>
> Regards,
> Torsten
> ===
Thanks! Patch will be in CVS shortly.
- Ethan Galstad
This post was automatically imported from historical nagios-devel mailing list archives
Original poster: [email protected]