[Openswan Users] Pluto Segmentation fault in 2.4.7

[Paul Wouters]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Pompon wrote:

> We encountered a bug in openswan 2.4.7 running on debian kernel 2.6.8 with
> Klips stack that crashes our entire production platform tunnels !!
>
> After investigations, this is due to a new connection we have just declared
> that seems perfectly normal compared to our hundred others. When this
> connections goes up, pluto end with a "Segmentation fault", then pluto is
> endless restarted and faulting every 30 seconds making all other tunnels
> unusable !

Please enable dumpdir=/tmp in config setup, crash openswan, and use the
source and core dump in /tmp/ to give us a full backtrace.

> --- openswan-2.4.7/programs/pluto/demux.c Fri Jan 12 11:35:21 2007
> +++ openswan-2.4.7-debug/programs/pluto/demux.c Fri Jan 12 12:16:07 2007
> @@ -2411,7 +2411,7 @@
>      * we can only be in calculating state if state is ignore,
>      * or suspended.
>      */
> -    passert(result == STF_IGNORE || result == STF_SUSPEND ||
> st->st_calculating==FALSE);
> +    passert(result == STF_INLINE || result == STF_IGNORE || result ==
> STF_SUSPEND || st->st_calculating==FALSE);

This is already incorporated into 2.4.8rc1.

Paul
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