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nscd: avoid assertion failure during persistent db check

Message ID mvmfu2t2grx.fsf@suse.de
State New, archived
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Andreas Schwab May 15, 2018, 1:24 p.m. UTC 
  nscd should not abort when it finds inconsistencies in the persistent db.

	* nscd/connections.c (check_use): Don't abort on invalid len.
---
 nscd/connections.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Florian Weimer May 15, 2018, 1:34 p.m. UTC | #1 
On 05/15/2018 03:24 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> -  assert (len >= 2);
> +  if (len < 2)
> +    return 0;

Shouldn't it log a warning at least?  Something went very wrong, after all.

Does this need a bug?

Thanks,
Florian
Andreas Schwab May 15, 2018, 1:45 p.m. UTC | #2 
On Mai 15 2018, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 05/15/2018 03:24 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> -  assert (len >= 2);
>> +  if (len < 2)
>> +    return 0;
>
> Shouldn't it log a warning at least?

The caller does.

Andreas.
Andreas Schwab May 15, 2018, 3:04 p.m. UTC | #3 
On Mai 15 2018, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:

> Does this need a bug?

Filed as 23184.

Andreas.
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Patch

diff --git a/nscd/connections.c b/nscd/connections.c
index 5f91985859..d2ac3147a0 100644
--- a/nscd/connections.c
+++ b/nscd/connections.c
@@ -327,7 +327,8 @@  static int
 check_use (const char *data, nscd_ssize_t first_free, uint8_t *usemap,
 	   enum usekey use, ref_t start, size_t len)
 {
-  assert (len >= 2);
+  if (len < 2)
+    return 0;
 
   if (start > first_free || start + len > first_free
       || (start & BLOCK_ALIGN_M1))