doveadm-deduplicate deletes non-duplicates

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Mon Jun 13 10:03:35 UTC 2022


This has now been fixed in main with https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/2780f106e3b185981dd7aaf5cbf2e88daa2f7c64.patch

Aki

> On 13/06/2022 10:43 gravitini <dovecot at gravitini.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> Please consider as critical (data loss) and recommend a warning is 
> issued for 2.3.19 users.
> 
> 
> On 13/06/22 5:25 pm, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> >> On 13/06/2022 02:09 gravitini <dovecot at gravitini.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>   
> >> Replying to: https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2022-May/124816.html
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Looking at the code (and tested via local build from source) it looks
> >> like doveadm deduplicate in 2.3.19 can cause significant data loss.
> >>
> >> A 2022-02-11 commit removed key duplication resulting in undefined
> >> behaviour which is often truncation of a mailbox to 67 entries.
> >> (HASH_TABLE_MIN_SIZE)
> >>
> >> https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/320844f50cd669b602d30210e2e5216f65d2050f?diff=split#diff-5842cf9d4248dc515d80ebb45575341b7d76832f979a8ac5f602784cb5b03f2cL121
> >>
> >> diff --git a/src/doveadm/doveadm-mail-deduplicate.c
> >> b/src/doveadm/doveadm-mail-deduplicate.c
> >>
> >> index caec758112..2152482876 100644
> >> --- a/src/doveadm/doveadm-mail-deduplicate.c
> >> +++ b/src/doveadm/doveadm-mail-deduplicate.c
> >> @@ -63,8 +63,10 @@ cmd_deduplicate_box(struct doveadm_mail_cmd_context
> >> *_ctx,
> >>                   if (key != NULL && *key != '\0') {
> >>                           if (hash_table_lookup(hash, key) != NULL)
> >>                                   mail_expunge(mail);
> >> -                       else
> >> +                       else {
> >> +                               key = p_strdup(pool, key);
> >>                                   hash_table_insert(hash, key,
> >> POINTER_CAST(1));
> >> +                       }
> >>                   }
> >>           }
> > Thank you both for the report, we'll look into this!
> >
> > Aki


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