Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:44:57 -0700 From: Patrick Mahan <mahan@mahan.org> To: jordi@cdmon.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with a C script, exiting with signal 10 Message-ID: <489B2689.8070209@mahan.org> In-Reply-To: <489ACAB8.7000503@cdmon.com> References: <489ACAB8.7000503@cdmon.com>
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Jordi Moles Blanco presented these words - circa 8/7/08 3:13 AM->
> Hi,
>
> I've got this home-made script, written in C, on a Freebsd 7.0 server
> with different versions of postfix: 2.3,2,4 and 2.5
>
> The problem is that, while most of the time it works like a charm,
> sometimes it crashes and bounces the message. It's not really a big
> deal, cause the sender gets notified that their mail wasn't delivered
> and hopefully, they will resend it. However, the problem is that I've
> tried to debug my script but found nothing wrong at all, cause it only
> fails from time to time, let's say... once for each 2000 messages that
> postfix receives, and it appears to do so in a random way.
>
> As i said... postfix can fail to deliver a message to one particular
> mailbox, but if then you resend the very same message to the very same
> mailbox, it will be delivered.
>
> The error is reported in both "maillog" and "messages", like this:
>
>
> ******/var/log/maillog********
> Aug 7 01:55:19 mail01 postfix/pipe[27534]: 3E1A0143709:
> to=<EMAIL_ACCOUNT>, relay=quota_postfix, delay=0.23,
> delays=0.11/0/0/0.11, dsn=5.3.0, status=bounced (Command died with
> signal 10: "/usr/local/etc/postfix/quota_postfix")
>
>
> *****/var/log/messages*******
> Aug 7 01:55:19 mail01 kernel: pid 29535 (quota_postfix), uid 125:
> exited on signal 10
>
Well signal 10 is SIGBUS which is indicative of (generally) a bad address,
non-aligned memory address (on platforms it matters) or a hardware error.
I would look for places you are dereferencing a pointer without perhaps
first validating it.
Given that it rarely occurs, I might suspect that you are allocating some
memory, but failing to completely initialize (malloc() doesn't zero out
memory) it or assuming it is already initialize.
Good luck,
Patrick
>
> Here you have some extra information about the script itself and the
> master.cf
>
>
> *****/usr/local/etc/postfix/quota_postfix***
>
> # ls -la /usr/local/etc/postfix/quota_postfix
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 postfix postfix 20048 Aug 4 10:18
> /usr/local/etc/postfix/quota_postfix
>
> It's got de suid flag cause it performs a "du" command and other file
> operations which need permissions, although i've tried with other groups
> of permissions and it eventually crashes anyway with "signal 10"
>
> ******master.cf*********
>
> .........
>
> # spamfilter
> spamfilter unix - n n - 20 pipe
> flags=R user=filter argv=/home/antispam.pl "localhost:10027" "antispam"
> "${sender}" "${recipient}" "/usr/local/bin/spamc"
>
> # from spamfilter to smtpd:10026
> localhost:10027 inet n - n - 100 smtpd
> -o content_filter=quota_postfix
>
>
> # quota_postfix
> quota_postfix unix - n n - 20 pipe
> flags=R user=filter argv=/usr/local/etc/postfix/quota_postfix
> "localhost" "10028" "${sender}" "${recipient}" "${domain}"
>
> # from quota_postfix to smtpd:10028
> localhost:10028 inet n - n - 100 smtpd
> -o content_filter=
>
> ................
>
> So far, any program which crashed would leave a ".core" file in
> /usr/crash, but this one is not doing the same, so... i can't actually
> debug from the core file either.
> Sysctl in my FreeBSD server is ok, but i guess that postfix, somehow is
> preventing this filter from generating a core file. Is that possible? Or
> am i completely wrong?
>
> How could I, at least, generate the .core file?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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