list mechs bug in cyrus-sasl 2.1.22 and memory leak

[Ken Murchison]

I'll see if I can find a Mac on which to test the stock SASL source.  If 
Apple is modifying our source code, then you may have to take this up 
with them.



Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> Me too.  This problem only occurs on the Mac (PPC or i386), and does not 
> show up on linux at all.  I'm guessing this is due to the Mac having a 
> slightly different source tree.  I've verified it goes back as far as 
> 2.1.18.
> 
> The multi-listed mechanisms was what pointed me in the direction of 
> SASL, as that was what showed up in the OpenLDAP backtrace.
> 
> --Quanah
> 
> --On Thursday, January 24, 2008 1:05 PM -0500 Ken Murchison 
> <murch at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> I don't have access to a Mac to play with, but I can't reproduce this on
>> my Linux dev box.  I'm curious why each of the plugin mechs is listed 3
>> times.
>>
>>
>> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>>> In playing on the Mac platform, I found there is a bug in the mechanism
>>> listing code on both PPC and x86 Mac.  From testsuite.c:
>>>
>>> Testing sasl_listmech()...
>>> [EXTERNAL,ANONYMOUS,ANONYMOUS,ANONYMOUS,CRAM-MD5,CRAM-MD5,CRAM-MD5,DIGES
>>> T-MD
>>>
>>> 5,DIGEST-MD5,DIGEST-MD5,GSSAPI,GSSAPI,GSSAPI,LOGIN,LOGIN,LOGIN,OTP,OTP,O
>>> TP,PLAIN,PLAIN,PLAIN]
>>>
>>> Client mechlist:
>>> [PLAIN,PLAIN,PLAIN,OTP,OTP,OTP,LOGIN,LOGIN,LOGIN,GSSAPI,GSSAPI,GSSAPI,DI
>>> GEST
>>>
>>> -MD5,DIGEST-MD5,DIGEST-MD5,CRAM-MD5,CRAM-MD5,CRAM-MD5,ANONYMOUS,ANONYMOU
>>> S,ANONYMOUS,EXTERNAL]
>>>
>>> We have the following mechs:
>>> [PLAIN,PLAIN,PLAIN,LOGIN,LOGIN,LOGIN,GSSAPI,GSSAPI,GSSAPI,DIGEST-MD5,DIG
>>> EST-
>>>
>>> MD5,DIGEST-MD5,CRAM-MD5,CRAM-MD5,CRAM-MD5,ANONYMOUS,ANONYMOUS,ANONYMOUS,
>>> EXTERNAL]
>>>
>>>  Currently Still Allocated:
>>>    302EE0 (  360)      00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00
>>>    ... 302EA0 (   20)      01  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  D0  '.' '0'
>>>    00  ... 302CC0 (  360)      00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00
>>>    00  00  ... 302C80 (   20)      01  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  B0
>>>    ',' '0' 00  ... 300AE0 (   20)      00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00
>>>    00  00  00  00  ... 300A40 (   20)      00  00  00  00  00  00  00
>>>    00  00  00  00  00  ... Failed with: memory error
>>>
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of a fix for this?  I can't imagine I'm the first to
>>> hit it.  It's causing problems with OpenLDAP, as after a while the
>>> server will crash, and the stack trace on the core points to this being
>>> the issue.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> --Quanah
>>>
>>> -- 
>>>
>>> Quanah Gibson-Mount
>>> Principal Software Engineer
>>> Zimbra, Inc
>>> --------------------
>>> Zimbra ::  the leader in open source messaging and collaboration
>>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Kenneth Murchison
>> Systems Programmer
>> Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
>> Carnegie Mellon University
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Quanah Gibson-Mount
> Principal Software Engineer
> Zimbra, Inc
> --------------------
> Zimbra ::  the leader in open source messaging and collaboration
> 


-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University