[Swan] Crash with Libreswan 3.11

Roel van Meer roel at 1afa.com
Thu Nov 6 11:52:59 EET 2014


Paul Wouters writes:

>> Together with a colleague I added some null pointer checks to nss (see the  
>> attached patch). When we do that, the crash disappears as such, but now we  
>> hit a failed assert:
>
> It looks like some corruption happened, and we were giving nonsense to
> nss. Your passert patch seems to confirm that.

Ok.

>> I hope this is useful. Please let me know if I can provide any more  
>> information, or if there is anything I should test.
>
> If possible, you could enable EFENCE in Makefile.inc and compile with
> electric fence. It might be able to spot some bad memory usage.

I've compiled 3.12-rc1 with duma, but it might be a few days before I have a  
chance to test it. I'll report back the results as soon as I have them.

Thanks!

Roel


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