Crash in director for secure lmtp proxy connections

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Wed Nov 21 15:26:53 EET 2018


On 21.11.2018 15.21, Marcus Fenner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After updating some of our director servers from 2.2.36 to 2.3.3
> (dcead646b) we experience crashes in about 1/5000 mails in lmtp delivery:
>
> Nov 13 12:23:36 Fatal: lmtp(113620): master: service(lmtp): child 113620
> killed with signal 6 (core dumped)
> Nov 13 12:23:36 Panic: lmtp(113623): file ostream-dot.c: line 208
> (o_stream_dot_sendv): assertion failed: ((size_t)ret == sent + added)
> Nov 13 12:23:36 Error: lmtp(113623): Raw backtrace:
> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xe34fb) [0x7f31d89134fb] ->
> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xe3597) [0x7f31d8913597] ->
> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x51207) [0x7f31d8881207] ->
> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x4eeef) [0x7f31d887eeef] ->
> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x107cf8) [0x7f31d8937cf8] ->
> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(o_stream_sendv+0x32) [0x7f31d89382c2]
> -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_stream_copy+0x5a)
> [0x7f31d8938b6a] ->
> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(o_stream_send_istream+0x53)
> [0x7f31d8938873] ->
> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(smtp_client_command_send_more+0x145)
> [0x7f31d8890805] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x660dd)
> [0x7f31d88960dd] ->
> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libssl_iostream_openssl.so(+0xa7e1) [0x7f31d864a7e1]
> -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x10a558) [0x7f31d893a558] ->
> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x73)
> [0x7f31d892a203] ->
> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run_internal+0x136)
> [0x7f31d892b8b6] ->
> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x50)
> [0x7f31d892a2b0] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x48)
> [0x7f31d892a418] ->
> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x17)
> [0x7f31d88a95a7] -> dovecot/lmtp(main+0x245) [0x555b8b59cea5] ->
> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf3) [0x7f31d867c413] ->
> dovecot/lmtp(_start+0x2e) [0x555b8b59cfbe]
> Nov 13 12:23:36 Fatal: lmtp(113623): master: service(lmtp): child 113623
> killed with signal 6 (core dumped)
>
> On the backend servers the only message is
> lmtp(9571): Disconnect from 192.168.1.56: Connection closed (in DATA)
>
> This happens for every server with this version every time postfix tries
> to resend the mail.
>
> After removing "starttls=y" from the static passdb entry, the mail is
> sent successfully. Starting with version 2.3.2 the lmtp proxy uses
> starttls as well, therefore the error seems to be there. I've not been
> able to figure out, if this has to do with the content of the mails,
> because they are from many different sources.
>
> Thanks!
> Marcus


Hi!

Thanks for reporting this bug, we'll look into it!

Aki


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