On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 05:11:16PM -0400, Brad Smith wrote:
> On 27/05/14 3:42 PM, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >on amd64 I'm seeing out-of-mem errors if I use a nonexistent username
> >with bsdauth (ottotest1 does not exist in /etc/passwd).
> >
> >May 27 21:33:28 mx1 dovecot: auth-worker(11223): Fatal:
> >pool_system_realloc(268435456): Out of memory
> >May 27 21:33:28 mx1 dovecot: auth: Error: auth worker: Aborted request:
> >Worker process died unexpectedly
> >May 27 21:33:28 mx1 dovecot: auth-worker(11223): Fatal: master:
> >service(auth-worker): child 11223 returned error 83 (Out of memory (service
> >auth-worker { vsz_limit=256 MB }, you may need to increase it) - set
> >CORE_OUTOFMEM=1 environment to get core dump)
> >May 27 21:33:30 mx1 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 2
> >attempts in 10 secs): user=<ottotest1>, method=PLAIN, rip=XXX, lip=YYY, TLS,
> >session=<V8+3xGb6UwAgAQmBqvMAAQIkHf/+3uk5>
> >
> >Existing user with correct password goes ok, existing user with wrong
> >password is denied access as it should.
> >
> >[otto@mx1:136]$ pkg_info | grep dove
> >dovecot-2.2.10p0 compact IMAP/POP3 server
> >
> >Any clue?
>
> This issue was what spurred fixing getpwnam and getpwuid..
>
> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=139406310728289&w=2
> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=139429727909338&w=2
>
> not being familiar with the API I'm not sure if the
> workaround as was in place for older OpenBSD releases
> can be improved at all..
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/mail/dovecot/patches/patch-src_lib_ipwd_c
Thanks for the pointer.
The current situation is not really nice with it's resource
consumption and log spamming. I'll see if I get a chance to look into
this.
-Otto
