On Wed, 2017-12-06 at 14:57 +0100, Riccardo Murri wrote: > Dear Anoop, > > thank you very much for your detailed explanation. > > > I think you are hitting a bug[1] from vfs module for GlusterFS inside Samba during a realpath() > > call. > > > > This regression got in when glfs_realpath() was modified in GlusterFS[2] to correctly handle > > memory > > allocation and corresponding freeing of string arguments. And this particular change is present > > from > > GlusterFS version 3.7.17 in 3.7 series, in 3.9 series and all above versions (but not present > > in > > 3.8 series). > > > > So if you are using any of the above mentioned GlusterFS versions(which contains the above > > change > > for glfs_realpath()), then you are recommended to install Samba version >= 4.4.9 in 4.4 series, > > >= > > 4.5.2 or any versions from higher series like 4.6, 4.7 etc which contains the fix for this > > crash. > > I'm using GlusterFS 3.12.3 from the GlusterFS Ubuntu PPA [1]:: > > $ apt-cache policy glusterfs-client > glusterfs-client: > Installed: 3.12.3-ubuntu1~xenial1 > Candidate: 3.12.3-ubuntu1~xenial1 > Version table: > *** 3.12.3-ubuntu1~xenial1 500 > 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gluster/glusterfs-3.12/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > 3.7.6-1ubuntu1 500 > 500 http://nova.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages > 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages > > So this should contain the fix already? Or is the fix Samba-side? Yes. The fix needs to be present in Samba. Please update your Samba version as I replied above. > [1] https://launchpad.net/~gluster/+archive/ubuntu/glusterfs-3.12 > > Thanks, > Riccardo > > -- > Riccardo Murri / Email: riccardo.murri@xxxxxxxxx / Tel.: +41 77 458 98 32 _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
