Bug 3634 - nmbd should not segfault with bad interface line
Summary: nmbd should not segfault with bad interface line
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Samba 3.0
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Client Tools (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0.21c
Hardware: Other Linux
: P3 minor
Target Milestone: 3.0.25
Assignee: Jeremy Allison
QA Contact: Samba QA Contact
URL: http://bugs.debian.org/359155
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Depends on:
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Reported: 2006-03-28 08:04 UTC by Christian Perrier (dead mail address)
Modified: 2007-04-10 15:55 UTC (History)
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2007-04-10 15:09 UTC, Jeremy Allison 		no flags Details
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Description Christian Perrier (dead mail address) 2006-03-28 08:04:51 UTC 
This bug is often reported in Debian. Several users mistakenly use the following in their smb.conf file:

       bind interfaces only = yes
       interfaces = 127.0.0.1

This is of course not really a good idea but it seems to make nmbd crash consistently.

We suggest that an error
message indicating the problem and then an orderly shutdown would be
more appropriate.

As written by Eloy Paris, one of the maitnainers: "Definitely not a bug in Samba, I agree, but there's definitely room for improvement here."
Comment 1 didier 2007-04-09 21:18:33 UTC 
It's not exactly for the same reason but in ubuntu bug #100019:

5 0x080c17ac in sig_fault (sig=11) at lib/fault.c:42
#6 <signal handler called>
#7 find_workgroup_on_subnet (subrec=0x0, name=0x8136458 "WORKGROUP")
    at nmbd/nmbd_workgroupdb.c:177
#8 0x08076327 in write_browse_list (t=0, force_write=1)
    at nmbd/nmbd_serverlistdb.c:350
#9 0x0806261e in msg_reload_nmbd_services (msg_type=3001, src={pid = 0},
    buf=0xbfa72ee0, len=0) at nmbd/nmbd.c:314
Comment 2 Jeremy Allison 2007-04-10 15:09:56 UTC 
Created attachment 2369 [details]
Patch

This should fix it for 3.0.25.
Jeremy.
Comment 3 Gerald (Jerry) Carter (dead mail address) 2007-04-10 15:55:18 UTC 
marking as fixed the next 3.0.25 snapshot.