Am 20.01.2010 23:07, schrieb Alan M Wright:
> On 01/20/10 13:06, Florian Manschwetus wrote:
>> Am 20.01.2010 20:50, schrieb Afshin Salek:
>>>
>>> Florian Manschwetus wrote:
>>>> Am 19.01.2010 19:52, schrieb Afshin Salek:
>>>>> We should first determine what the nature of the problem is
>>>>> and then start the diagnosis process. I don't see any clear
>>>>> problem description in the bugzilla.
>>>>>
>>>>> What operation is being performed when this crash happens?
>>>>>
>>>>> I can see that the crash has been fixed, so you are saying
>>>>> there is still a problem and you think it's a server side
>>>>> issue?
>>>>>
>>> You haven't responded to this question, so do you have the
>>> smbclient fix for the crash and you still see a problem or
>>> you don't have the fix?
>>>
>>> Afshin
>>
>> I have the fix and it was released yesterday for samba stable (3.4.5),
>> but it would need about six month until it would make it in the
>> mainstream binary distributions, so we would need the server to be fixed
>> asap. (possible impact also on opensolaris and macos)
> 
> AFAIA, the server-side doesn't need to be fixed.  The Samba code
> was using the wrong field in the MSRPC response.
> 
> smbclient may have gotten away with a small number of shares on
> Windows but it could have run into a similar problem with a large
> number of shares - enough shares to exceed the limit for a single
> request.

I'd really like to see the system with more than INT_MAX_VALUE shares...
Anyway the fixed samba version will need a lot of time until it would
have made it in the main repositories of the binary-distributions, so a
fix of this definitely buggy reply would be nice, eventually this fixes
also some other strange issues around smbautohomes.

thx,
florian

> 
>> The idea was to get a dtrace hack, that fixes the affected replies.
>> If it is possible to do so.
> 
> You may create such a hack for yourself but I don't think we should
> be distributing something like that - particularly when the real
> fix is already being distributed by others.
> 
> Alan
> 


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