Hello,

I though this bug should be reported, although there is workaround already made and in use.

Dovecot 2.2.10 crashes into out of memory error when there is defined system users (userdb+passdb) and own virtual users (userdb+passdb). Removing either one solves the issue and Dovecot is working as it should. When memory leak (I replaced pw_init and gr_init with the version that is found from 2.1.17) is fixed from lib/ipwd.c source, the auth worker gets to infinite loop and authentication timeouts(timeout was increased, but worker does not end what ever it's doing). This far I got chance to debug this before other passdb was removed due lack of time.

Here's logs, configs and backtrace:

Feb 1 07:39:19 openbsd dovecot: auth-worker(30906): Fatal: pool_system_realloc(268435456): Out of memory Feb 1 07:39:19 openbsd dovecot: auth: Error: auth worker: Aborted request: Worker process died unexpectedly Feb 1 07:39:19 openbsd dovecot: auth-worker(30906): Fatal: master: service(auth-worker): child 30906 returned error 83 (Out of memory (service auth-worker { vsz_limit=256 MB }, you may need to increase it) passdb doesn't support lookups, can't verify user's existence

• set CORE_OUTOFMEM=1 environment to get core dump) Feb 1 07:39:19 openbsd dovecot: auth: Error: static(email@localhost):

Feb 1 07:39:19 openbsd dovecot: lda: Error: user email@localhost: Auth USER lookup failed Feb 1 07:39:19 openbsd dovecot: lda: Fatal: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. Feb 1 07:39:19 openbsd postfix/pipe[17487]: 5DBAE5F289: to=email@localhost, relay=dovecot, delay=37607, delays=37606/0.02/0/0.67, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure)

# 2.2.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: OpenBSD 5.5 i386 ffs auth_debug = yes auth_verbose = yes first_valid_uid = 1000 imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep tb-lsub-flags mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/mydomain/%n mbox_write_locks = fcntl mmap_disable = yes namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Spam { auto = subscribe } prefix = } passdb { driver = bsdauth } passdb { args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh protocols = imap lmtp service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0666 } } ssl_cert = *:storage=1G } userdb { args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file override_fields = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/vmail/%d/%u quota_rule=*:storage=1G } verbose_ssl = yes protocol imap { mail_plugins = }

(gdb) bt full #0 0x0221be9d in kill () at <stdin>:2 No locals. #1 0x02285e36 in raise (s=6) at /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/raise.c:39 No locals. #2 0x02285d5c in abort () at /usr/src/lib/libc/stdlib/abort.c:70 p = (struct atexit *) 0x7fc2c000 mask = 4294967263 cleanup_called = 1 #3 0x0245dcd4 in default_fatal_finish (type=Variable "type" is not available. ) at failures.c:193 backtrace = Variable "backtrace" is not available. (gdb) bt #0 0x0221be9d in kill () at <stdin>:2 #1 0x02285e36 in raise (s=6) at /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/raise.c:39 #2 0x02285d5c in abort () at /usr/src/lib/libc/stdlib/abort.c:70 #3 0x0245dcd4 in default_fatal_finish (type=Variable "type" is not available. ) at failures.c:193 #4 0x0245dd4d in i_internal_fatal_handler (ctx=0xcfbec0f4, format=0x22406990 "pool_system_realloc(%lu): Out of memory", args=0xcfbec118 "") at failures.c:657 #5 0x0245cee3 in i_fatal_status (status=Could not find the frame base for "i_fatal_status". ) at failures.c:295 #6 0x02475543 in pool_system_realloc (pool=Could not find the frame base for "pool_system_realloc". ) at mempool-system.c:120 #7 0x02464c47 in i_realloc (mem=0x86122000, old_size=134217728, new_size=268435456) at imem.c:14 #8 0x0246505c in pw_init () at ipwd.c:23 #9 0x024651f7 in i_getpwnam (name=0x76941140"email@localhost", pwd_r=0xcfbec1cc) at ipwd.c:51 #10 0x164eef8e in bsdauth_verify_plain (request=0x76941020, password=0x78a183a2 "testi", callback=0x164e0320 ) at passdb-bsdauth.c:26 #11 0x164e0bf4 in auth_worker_input (client=0x7b386460) at auth-worker-client.c:205 #12 0x0246f9c2 in io_loop_call_io (io=0x7d1ae8c0) at ioloop.c:388 #13 0x02470e97 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x7d1ae3c0) at ioloop-kqueue.c:151 #14 0x0246f928 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x7d1ae3c0) at ioloop.c:412 #15 0x0241609d in master_service_run (service=0x7e433d00, callback=0x164e66a0 ) at master-service.c:566 #16 0x164e6cc8 in main (argc=Cannot access memory at address 0x0 ) at main.c:393 Current language: auto; currently asm

Sincerelly, Jani Hast