Bug 539308 – app-admin/logrotate-3.8.8: crashes when rotating logs

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo/Alt

[Description henning.f 2015-02-08 07:49:27 UTC]

logrotate seems to use qsort_r which is not standardized and has a different argument order on glibc and freebsd. This causes the program to crash when this code is executed.

logrotate.c: In function ‘sortGlobResult’:
logrotate.c:149:2: warning: passing argument 5 of ‘qsort_r’ from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
  qsort_r(result->gl_pathv, result->gl_pathc, sizeof(char *), compGlobResult, &d);
  ^
In file included from logrotate.c:13:0:
/usr/include/stdlib.h:284:7: note: expected ‘int (*)(void *, const void *, const void *)’ but argument is of type ‘struct compData *’
 void  qsort_r(void *, size_t, size_t, void *,
       ^


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have logs that needs rotating
2. logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
Actual Results:  
pid 78632 (logrotate), uid 250: exited on signal 11

Expected Results:  
My logs are rotated

[Comment 1 henning.f 2015-02-08 07:54:50 UTC]

Created attachment 395866 [details, diff]
backported patch from svn

Unlike the patch suggested by the freebsd bugzilla, I propose this change which is a backported version of commit 468 in the logrotate svn.

[Comment 2 henning.f 2015-03-15 03:27:58 UTC]

This issue has been resolved in app-admin/logrotate-3.8.9

[Comment 3 Chema Alonso Josa (RETIRED) 2015-11-26 12:07:34 UTC]

Version no longer in the tree. 

Closing