[mythtv-users] excessive crashing of 0.22 backend

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sat Jan 9 06:57:40 UTC 2010


On 01/08/2010 01:47 PM, Ronald Frazier wrote:
> So I did the rebuild, got a core dump, and ran it through gdb. I was
> gonna post it but thought maybe I could solve it myself. Tracked
> through the code and found the cause was a QUERY_RECORDING TIMESLOT
> request coming over the socket. Problem was, the request was missing
> the 4th parameter.
>   
...
> So anyway, I'm gonna accept most of the blame for this. I'll pass
> along a little bit of blame because requests that come in from outside
> should probably be sanity checked by the backend (some are, but a lot
> aren't). I know myth is more or less a closed system, but for backend
> stability it's probably still a really good idea. Mike...I'm pretty
> sure I know your next words: patches welcome. I'm already working on
> it.
>
> Thanks again for the suggestion

I was actually going to say to please report the issue in a ticket 
because we need to fix that (with or without a patch), as the backend 
shouldn't segfault due to invalid network requests.  However, with a 
patch is always appreciated.  :)

Mike


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