[Dovecot] Dovecot-2.1.8 process imap crashed

[Timo Sirainen]

On 17.7.2012, at 17.15, Marcin Mirosław wrote:

> Hello!
> I've just upgraded dovecot from 2.0.18 to 2.1.8 and configured impac. I
> notice dovecot/imap throws segfault from time to time. I'm not sure i
> know what steps are needed to reproduce problem.
..
> #3  0x000002d0fbf6208a in imapc_connection_abort_commands
> (conn=0x2b46579c10, disconnected=<optimized out>,
> keep_retriable=<optimized out>) at imapc-connection.c:271
> #4  0x000002d0fbf624be in imapc_connection_disconnect
> (conn=0x2b46579c10) at imapc-connection.c:371
..
> #15 0x0000002b4461b58e in client_destroy (client=0x2b465891d0,
> reason=0x0) at imap-client.c:219
> #16 0x0000002b44615552 in idle_client_input (ctx=<optimized out>) at
> cmd-idle.c:113

This happened when the client was IDLEing and the connection got closed. It's definitely a bug, but I haven't so far bothered to look into it much because the end result from the client's point of view is the same anyway (getting disconnected).