Re: [systemd-devel] simple way to crash systemd via a dangling symlink

2014-05-22 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Lennart, 2014-05-22 9:59 GMT+02:00 Lennart Poettering : > Please test! Thanks for looking into this. Since the commits can not be cherry-picked for v204 and v208 (which I'm currently running in Debian), I can't easily test. So this will have to wait until I've upgraded to a newer version. Wit

Re: [systemd-devel] simple way to crash systemd via a dangling symlink

2014-05-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 27.03.14 05:18, Michael Biebl (mbi...@gmail.com) wrote: > 2/ If a socket is in such a state, we probably shouldn't process > incoming requests and try to start the service > 3/ Should we stop the socket if the Load state is "error" So far we kept the load state and the active state quite

Re: [systemd-devel] simple way to crash systemd via a dangling symlink

2014-05-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 27.03.14 05:18, Michael Biebl (mbi...@gmail.com) wrote: > There is an interesting bug which can be used to crash systemd via a > dangling symlink. For details please see [0]. > > To trigger the bug, you need a socket activated service. I'm using > cups in this case. > > The steps to repr

Re: [systemd-devel] simple way to crash systemd via a dangling symlink

2014-05-21 Thread Michael Biebl
Filed this as https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76899 Would be great to have someone look at it. Having systemd crash due to something simple as a dangling symlink is pretty bad imho. 2014-03-27 5:18 GMT+01:00 Michael Biebl : > There is an interesting bug which can be used to crash sys

[systemd-devel] simple way to crash systemd via a dangling symlink

2014-03-26 Thread Michael Biebl
There is an interesting bug which can be used to crash systemd via a dangling symlink. For details please see [0]. To trigger the bug, you need a socket activated service. I'm using cups in this case. The steps to reproduce are a/ Make sure cups.socket is properly configured and in state active (