[Dovecot] imap segfaults in dovecot 1.2 on logout

[Sascha Wilde]

Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> writes:
> On Oct 15, 2008, at 5:57 PM, Sascha Wilde wrote:
>
>> #1  0x0806ab6c in command_unregister (name=0x815b9ab "LOGOUT") at
>> commands.c:83
>> 83                      if (strcasecmp(cmd[i].name, name) == 0) {
>> (gdb) p cmd[i]
>> $1 = {name = 0xb7e65ce7 <Address 0xb7e65ce7 out of bounds>, func =
>> 0xb7e6432d, flags = 0}
>>      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> For some reasons this does _not_ happen when I simply close the
>> connection (without explicitly logging out)...
>
> Your plugin isn't probably unregistering some command it registered
> and the plugin is unloaded before commands_deinit() is called.

As said in my other mail, that was indeed the problem and it is now
solved.  The question still left is: why didn't I see the segfoult in
the logs when the connection was closed hard?

A quick look with gdb shows, that the deinit stuff is called in both
cases, so I'd guess its an logging issue?

cheers
sascha
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