Just to be clear...this is a patch to fix the previous patch, yeah? -- Jason
On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 13:24, Jesse Norell wrote: > Hey, > > Good point - that should be a comparison, not assignment. I > corrected that in the attached patch. > > Thanks, > Jesse > > ---- Original Message ---- > From: Ben Gras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jesse Norell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Dbmail] High Load Average and dbmail-pop3d ? [PATCH] > Sent: Thu, 22 May 2003 18:38:50 +0200 > > > Hi Jesse, > > > > > After a little discussion with Ryan, the purpose of his patch was > > > to fix the pop3 state machine when returning from apop (which has no > > > plaintext password, creating a problem with a check for password!=NULL > > > at a point), but it created a double free() of a pointer. According > > > to the man page, that creates undefined behavior, which for Ryan seems > > > to be working fine, but for you is quite nasty. :) The attached > > > patch handles that case in the state machine, as well as checking a > > > couple lengths (and fixing a buffer overrun with long USER arg) ... it > > > seems to work fine in a small amount of testing, but give it a try and > > > see if it fixes your problem, etc. Please report back with your > > > results, as this is something that needs to be fixed in cvs code. > > > (Download latest cvs code, and don't use Ryan's patch with this.) > > > > This line in your patch looks fishy: > > + if (session.username != NULL && (session.cmdtype = 11 || > > session.password != NULL)) > > > > It's either a clever (but unclear) way of assigning 11 to cmdtype > > if the username != NULL, or a bug, which is likely because the 2nd > > part of the conjunction will always be true.. > > > > =Ben > > > > > > > -- End Original Message -- > > > -- > Jesse Norell > jesse (at) kci.net
