Bug#420933: ippl: patches to fix some critical bugs
tags #420933 confirmed pending thanks On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 05:51:12PM +0530, Narayanan R S wrote: I've attached a new (additions on the existing diff file) diff file with some patches to fix a bunch of critical issues with ippl. I have committed this to svn. Can you please check whether this fixes #410729? I really appreciate your help, thanks. Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things.Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#420933: ippl: patches to fix some critical bugs
Package: ippl Version: 1.4.14-8 Severity: important I've attached a new (additions on the existing diff file) diff file with some patches to fix a bunch of critical issues with ippl. The summary is: a) If you enable multiple protocol logs (eg: icmp+tcp+udp), there's a race condition due to which ippl will *NOT* run. The exact issue is that each thread drops (root) privileges after it attaches to the raw socket. If one of the other thread tries to attach after this drop in privileges it will fail and abort. The fix is to drop privileges in the main thread and not in each/every thread. There's a forced sleep in there to ensure that all the threads finish their socket attaches by then. b) As a result of (a) (and of course it was a bug from before), it is no longer possible to reload the config files and reattach to the socket since the privilege drop has already happened. Reload were broken and now I've explicitly logged a message to restart instead of reload (the process will quit gracefully after logging). The attached diff can be diffed with the previous diff from the source to get the exact changes I've made. Hopefully they are self explanatory. Please forward this upstream. Thanks. Narayanan. ippl_1.4.14-8.diff.gz Description: Diffs for ippl patches
