On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 14:46 -0300, Leonardo Chiquitto wrote: > > Trying to find similar reports on the web, I found this email from an > OpenLDAP developer (partial quote, emphasis mine) [1]: > > "As far as I know, libldap is thread safe in the sense that multiple > threads can use separate LDAP* handles without running into concurrency > issues; *except for library initialization*, all accesses to common data > (i.e. global variables) is read-only." > > [1]http://www.openldap.org/cgi-bin/wilma_hiliter/openldap-software/200606/msg00252.html > > AutoFS implements no locking around LDAP initialization libraries and > it's quite common to see multiple threads executing ldap_initialize() > or ldap_start_tls_s() at the same time. Umm .. OK, that's likely the case but I'll check. > > To avoid corruption inside SSL and LDAP libraries, I'd like to propose > the following patch. The patch looks straight forward and sensible. Without having looked around or thought about it sufficiently I'd say I'll apply this but give me some time to look around. Thanks Ian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe autofs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
