Package: samba Version: 3.0.22-1 Severity: normal I say it's grave because the main smbd forks one child instance per minute which will make the system crash after a while: a DOS attack!
Happens with cifs from kernel 2.6.16 and 2.6.17. NOTE: this bug is an improvement against earlier kernels because they hung in a similar situation and required a manual reboot. When? Use a cifs mount (via automount) on your local maschine (this is important: when working over the network there is no such problem). The data source itself should be automounted too (via automount again). Do something via cifs to cause both automounts to mount. Tell the non-cifs automount to unmount the real data. Tell the cifs automount to unmount the cifs import. Now umount.cifs should hang. THIS IS NOT THE REAL PROBLEM. I guess Steve Frensh tries hard to fix these deadlock problems in his driver. He gets better with each kernel release... The problem: While umount.cifs still hangs the main smbd forks one smdb child every minute until the main smdb gets killed. If you don't kill it your system will die as it will run out of resources. Also the syslog gets flooded with useless CIFS VFS: no response for ... messages. Yours Jürgen -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-amd Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages samba depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.2 Debian configuration management sy ii libacl1 2.2.39-1 Access control list shared library ii libattr1 2.4.32-1 Extended attribute shared library ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcomerr2 1.39-1 common error description library ii libcupsys2 1.2.1-3 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libkrb53 1.4.3-7 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libldap2 2.1.30-13+b1 OpenLDAP libraries ii libpam-modules 0.79-3.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam-runtime 0.79-3.1 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 0.79-3.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpopt0 1.10-2 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii logrotate 3.7.1-3 Log rotation utility ii lsb-base 3.1-10 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii netbase 4.25 Basic TCP/IP networking system ii samba-common 3.0.22-1 Samba common files used by both th Versions of packages samba recommends: pn smbldap-tools <none> (no description available) -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
