Re: [Nagios-devel] [PATCH] send_nsca segfault on timeout
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:18 pm
Thanks for the patch Holger - this will be in CVS shortly.
Holger Weiss wrote:
> If send_nsca runs into the timeout while it's in encrypt_init(), it can
> segfault because encrypt_cleanup() (which is called from the signal
> handler) calls mcrypt_generic_end() although mcrypt_generic_init()
> wasn't done yet. This happens every now and then for us, for some
> reason send_nsca sometimes timeouts while it's in mcrypt_generic_init().
> The attached patch checks whether mcrypt_generic_init() was called
> before calling mcrypt_generic_end().
>
> Holger
>
>
Ethan Galstad
Nagios Developer
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Holger Weiss wrote:
> If send_nsca runs into the timeout while it's in encrypt_init(), it can
> segfault because encrypt_cleanup() (which is called from the signal
> handler) calls mcrypt_generic_end() although mcrypt_generic_init()
> wasn't done yet. This happens every now and then for us, for some
> reason send_nsca sometimes timeouts while it's in mcrypt_generic_init().
> The attached patch checks whether mcrypt_generic_init() was called
> before calling mcrypt_generic_end().
>
> Holger
>
>
Ethan Galstad
Nagios Developer
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