[Dovecot] panic fts_solr for bad attachment

Daniel L. Miller dmiller at amfes.com
Wed Nov 28 04:43:40 EET 2012


On 11/27/2012 1:07 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 27.11.2012, at 17.38, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
>
>> On 11/27/2012 7:28 AM, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
>>> On 11/26/2012 10:08 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>>> On 27.11.2012, at 7.50, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Nov 26, 2012 8:49:29 PM org.apache.solr.common.SolrException log
>>>>>> SEVERE: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Illegal character ((CTRL-CHAR, code 8))
>>>>>> at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1011144,197790]
>>>>> Something's wrong. The Solr code was already supposed to catch all of these.
>> I was taking a brief scan of the code - and as usual I'm probably wrong - but I believe the protection comes from the xml_encode functions.  Could it be that there are some solr writes that don't go through that function - because it is assumed that the data in question doesn't need that processing?  Like mailbox names, field names, or uids - that SHOULDN'T have any garbage but maybe something is creeping in?
> I did go through the code looking for that a few times already but didn't notice anything. I went through it once more, and finally found the problem. :) http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/6a97faf3e500
>
:( Mine still breaks.  Both UTF-8 and Control-Char errors.

-- 
Daniel



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