segfaults when executing quota command

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Thu Apr 14 03:33:21 EDT 2005


On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 23:37 -0400, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Craig White wrote:
> 
> >>> thanks - I know not of these things - appreciate your patience with me.
> >>>
> >>> (gdb) where
> >>> #0  0x00be1513 in _int_realloc () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> >>> #1  0x00be0156 in realloc () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> >>> #2  0x00c1b586 in glob_in_dir () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> >>> #3  0x00c1a7fc in glob () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> >>> #4  0x0808328e in mboxlist_findsub_alt ()
> >>> #5  0x0804baa0 in ?? ()
> >>> #6  0x0811b1e8 in ?? ()
> >>> #7  0xbfff8580 in ?? ()
> >>> #8  0x00000000 in ?? ()
> >>>
> >>> indeed, it was not the only stack. There was no rest of the backtrace
> >>> unless you are asking for the stuff that came 'before' I executed '(gdb)
> >>> run -f' which I didn't include because I didn't think that it had
> >>> meaningful information but for completeness...
> >>
> >> no, you answered what i wanted to know, above. I need to look at the regex
> >> code in mboxlist_findsub_alt
> > ----
> > any progress here?
> 
> Not especially. Having symbols would help. It's going to be something in 
> foreach() in lib/cyrusdb_quotalegacy.c, though, since that's the only 
> place you'd be using the system glob().
> 
> I suppose, for simplicity, you can just add a
> 
> printf("%s\n", quota_path);
> 
> before and after
>      /* strip off the qr specific path and replace with pattern */
>      sprintf(strstr(quota_path, FNAME_QUOTADIR) + strlen(FNAME_QUOTADIR),
>              "?/%s*", prefix);
> 
> And see what 2 lines you get just before the crash, as a way of cheating.
----
OK - here's the cheating...

# su - cyrus -c 'gdb /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/quota'
cyrus at AZAPPLE.COM's Password:
su: krb5_verify_user: Client (cyrus at AZAPPLE.COM) unknown
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(gdb) run -f
Starting program: /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/quota -f
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1218568064 (LWP 23872)]
/var/lib/imap/quota/q/
/var/lib/imap/quota/?/*

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1218568064 (LWP 23872)]
0x00a86513 in _int_realloc () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
(gdb) where
#0  0x00a86513 in _int_realloc () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#1  0x00a85156 in realloc () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#2  0x00ac0586 in glob_in_dir () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#3  0x00abf7fc in glob () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#4  0x0808327a in foreach (db=0x9836178, prefix=0xbfffb160 "",
prefixlen=0, goodp=0x804b7c0 <find_p>, cb=0x804b880 <find_cb>,
rock=0xbfffb158, tid=0x0)
    at cyrusdb_quotalegacy.c:503
#5  0x0804baa0 in buildquotalist (domain=0x0, roots=0xbfffb43c,
nroots=0) at quota.c:291
#6  0x0804b6d7 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbfffb434) at quota.c:187
(gdb)

so in answer to your question...the two lines were

/var/lib/imap/quota/q/
/var/lib/imap/quota/?/*

# ls -l /var/lib/imap/quota/
total 28
drwx------    2 cyrus    mail         4096 Apr 11 00:00 a
drwx------    2 cyrus    mail         4096 Feb 27 07:56 b
drwx------    2 cyrus    mail         4096 Apr 14 00:30 c
drwx------    2 cyrus    mail         4096 Feb 20 12:01 h
drwx------    2 cyrus    mail         4096 Feb 20 12:01 j
drwx------    2 cyrus    mail         4096 Feb 27 07:03 p
drwx------    2 cyrus    mail         4096 Mar 23 16:33 t

I don't have a 'q' or '?' directory

Craig

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