[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2.5 segfaults.

Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com
Wed Sep 23 17:17:13 EEST 2009


Hi Brandon,

On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Brandon Davidson wrote:

> Tom,
>
> Tom Diehl wrote:
>> I just updated to dovecot 1.2.5 on centos5.
>> 
>> 1.2.4 did not show this problem. I am going to roll back for the time being
>> but I am willing to do whatever I need to to fix this.
>> 
>> This is an x86_64 system. filesystem is ext3.
>> 
>> I am now seeing the following in the logs:
>> 
>> Sep 22 17:31:06 vfoggy kernel: imap[18644]: segfault at 0000000000000000 
>> rip 0000000000000000 rsp 00007fff83e31c88 error 14
>
> I think I just posted a patch for your issue. It's possible there is another 
> null function call in 1.2.5, but I'd bet against it.
>
> I can provide updated RPMs for testing if you are interested.

I just built a new rpm and installed it on one of my machines. So far so good.

It will be interesting to see if Timo agrees with this fix or if he wants to
fix it in a different way.

Thanks for the patch.

Regards,

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Tom Diehl       tdiehl at rogueind.com      Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com


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