My auth process is dumping core. This happens several times per day but dovecot can operate normally for hours between errors.
The crash occurs in src/auth/auth-policy.c, line 356:
t@1 (l@1) program terminated by signal SEGV (no mapping at the fault address) Current function is auth_policy_parse_response 356 context->request->policy_refusal = FALSE;
...context->request is null. Add markers to the code...
}
if (context->request == NULL) fprintf(stderr, "2222222222222222222222222222 context->request == NULL\n"); i_stream_unref(&context->payload);
if (context->request == NULL) fprintf(stderr, "1111111111111111111111111111 context->request == NULL\n"); if (context->parse_error) { context->result = (context->set->policy_reject_on_fail ? -1 : 0); }
if (context->request == NULL) fprintf(stderr, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA context->request == NULL\n"); context->request->policy_refusal = FALSE;
if (context->result < 0) {...gives at the time of the crash...
Aug 1 14:25:44 mailhost dovecot: [ID 702911 mail.error] auth: Error: 1111111111111111111111111111 context->request == NULL Aug 1 14:25:44 mailhost dovecot: [ID 702911 mail.error] auth: Error: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA context->request == NULL
...so context->result is not null before the call (no 222) to i_stream_unref but is after.
dovecot.conf has:
auth_policy_server_url = http://policyserver.lan/ auth_policy_server_timeout_msecs = 3000 auth_policy_hash_nonce = Ohr9phaeSeip2Pahaez2raiGohxoo5Ia auth_policy_request_attributes = remote=%{rip} auth_policy_check_before_auth = yes auth_policy_check_after_auth = yes auth_policy_report_after_auth = yes
To simplify the problem I used a dummy policy server, in nginx.conf:
location / {
default_type application/json;
return 200 "{\"status\":0,\"msg\":\"accepted\"}";
}however no matter what rubbish a policy server sends back it should not cause dovecot to crash.
I've tried 32 and 64 bit and two compilers (gcc and SunStudio), all result in crashes. Adding: keepalive_timeout 0; ...to nginx.conf appears to reduce the crashes. It happens with a variety of users and with debug output I see no pattern.
James.