Re: [Exim] Silent crashes of 4.40

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: exim-users
CC: Heiko Schlichting
Subject: Re: [Exim] Silent crashes of 4.40
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Philip Hazel wrote:

> Thank you for diagnosing the problem so completely. I agree that it is a
> serious bug. I will try to get an emergency 4.41 release with only one
> change - a fix for this bug - out today if I can. Unfortunately, I lam
> going away from lunchtime tomorrow.


Having looked at the code, I think that the bug is just that some code
got moved to the wrong place. I have made the following patch for the
proposed 4.41 release. If anybody who is hitting the problem can test it
quickly - in the next 6 hours or so - I would be grateful.

Regards,
Philip

--
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.



*** exim-4.40/src/daemon.c  Fri Jul  9 11:19:58 2004
--- daemon.c    Thu Jul 22 09:17:11 2004
***************
*** 156,161 ****
--- 156,188 ----
  DEBUG(D_any) debug_printf("Connection request from %s port %d\n",
    sender_host_address, sender_host_port);


+ /* Set up the output stream, check the socket has duplicated, and set up the
+ input stream. These operations fail only the exceptional circumstances. Note
+ that never_error() won't use smtp_out if it is NULL. */
+
+ smtp_out = fdopen(accept_socket, "wb");
+ if (smtp_out == NULL)
+   {
+   never_error(US"daemon: fdopen() for smtp_out failed", US"", errno);
+   goto ERROR_RETURN;
+   }
+
+ dup_accept_socket = dup(accept_socket);
+ if (dup_accept_socket < 0)
+   {
+   never_error(US"daemon: couldn't dup socket descriptor",
+     US"Connection setup failed", errno);
+   goto ERROR_RETURN;
+   }
+
+ smtp_in = fdopen(dup_accept_socket, "rb");
+ if (smtp_in == NULL)
+   {
+   never_error(US"daemon: fdopen() for smtp_in failed",
+     US"Connection setup failed", errno);
+   goto ERROR_RETURN;
+   }
+
  /* Get the data for the local interface address. */


if (getsockname(accept_socket, (struct sockaddr *)(&interface_sockaddr),
***************
*** 187,219 ****

  whofrom[wfptr] = 0;    /* Terminate the newly-built string */


- /* Set up the output stream, check the socket has duplicated, and set up the
- input stream. These operations fail only the exceptional circumstances. Note
- that never_error() won't use smtp_out if it is NULL. */
-
- smtp_out = fdopen(accept_socket, "wb");
- if (smtp_out == NULL)
-   {
-   never_error(US"daemon: fdopen() for smtp_out failed", US"", errno);
-   goto ERROR_RETURN;
-   }
-
- dup_accept_socket = dup(accept_socket);
- if (dup_accept_socket < 0)
-   {
-   never_error(US"daemon: couldn't dup socket descriptor",
-     US"Connection setup failed", errno);
-   goto ERROR_RETURN;
-   }
-
- smtp_in = fdopen(dup_accept_socket, "rb");
- if (smtp_in == NULL)
-   {
-   never_error(US"daemon: fdopen() for smtp_in failed",
-     US"Connection setup failed", errno);
-   goto ERROR_RETURN;
-   }
-
  /* Check maximum number of connections. We do not check for reserved
  connections or unacceptable hosts here. That is done in the subprocess because
  it might take some time. */
--- 214,219 ----