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Re: [patch] spamd cause core dump in convert_spamd_db

From: Olli Hauer (ohauergmx.de)
Date: Mon Mar 19 2007 - 15:33:07 CDT


On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 23:38 -0400, jared r r spiegel wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:33:23PM -0600, Bob Beck wrote:
> > * Olli Hauer <ohauergmx.de> [2007-03-18 08:00]:
> > > I had some core dumps during convert from old 4.0 to new 4.1 db.
> > >
> > > This fixed the core dump during convert.
> > >
> > > --- /usr/src/libexec/spamd/grey.c-patch1 Sun Mar 18 13:24:13 2007
> > > +++ /usr/src/libexec/spamd/grey.c Sun Mar 18 13:27:11 2007
> > > -1088,7 +1088,7
> > > exit(1);
> > > }
> > > memset(&hashinfo, 0, sizeof(hashinfo));
> > > - db2 = dbopen(sfn, O_EXLOCK|O_RDWR, 0600, DB_HASH, &hashinfo);
> > > + db2 = dbopen(sfn, O_EXLOCK|O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0600, DB_HASH, &hashinfo);
>
> by any chance are you running spamd(8) on freebsd?
>
No, but the database i want convert was a copy from a freebsd system
running spamd from OpenBSD 4.0 plus some current code.
I want to port the very cool new features to freebsd, so i test current
at my soekris.

-olli