Bug 105157 – spf plugin for qmail-r16 crashes using libspf-1.0.0_p3

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description Chuck 2005-09-07 08:03:21 UTC]

Using the mail-filter/libspf-1.0.0_p3, the spf.c plugin crashes (segfault) when
calling this libspf function:  peer_info->RES = SPF_policy_main(peer_info);

To prove the problem is in this implementation of libspf, I unmerged libspf and
installed the libspf-1.0.0-p3 from source availabe at libspf.org. The only
configure switch I used was --prefix=/usr  to make it more 'compatible' and then
ran env-update after the make and make install. Suddenly the spf.c plugin began
working.

I can supply the gdb output along with the spf.c source code if you would like
to see it. The spf.c has been updated (sept 6th) since the one everyone appears
to be using to fix a communication problem with the -p3 libraries. The new spf.c
is here:

http://qmail-spp.sourceforge.net/downloads/spf.c

However, this segfault problem occured with the previous version as well.

I originally had the following installed, and to make it work only changed the
libspf from the ebuild supply to the source supply directly from the author site.

libspf 1.0.0_p3
qmail 1.0.3-r16
ucspi-tcp-0.88-r11 (there was an update so I did it)
the spf.c updated source

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.simply enable it and send a message. The client responds "spf child crashed"
2.set env variables and run ./spf from cmdline. it segfaults.
3.replace libspf with author-site version repeat #2 and it works.

Actual Results:  
My mail client kept reporting "spf child crashed"

Expected Results:  
Should have accepted my email.

The system was originally installed as a 2004.3 profile and recently upgraded to
2005.1 with the exception of the kernel. I have not gotten around to compiling
the new kernel, it is still running 2.6.8-gentoo-r8. There is very little extra
installed other than that needed to run qmail along with
spamassassin/clamd/qmail-scanner.

I don't know where emerge info gets that long USE statement from... the one I
have in make.conf is:

USE="-X -ipv6 -gtk -gnome -alsa -gtk2 -kde -qt"

emerge info:
prometheus spfpkg # emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.5,
glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.8-gentoo-r8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r8 i686 Pentium III (Katmai)
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.10
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo
http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups curl eds emboss encode
foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gstreamer imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod
motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python
quicktime readline sdl slang spell spf ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts
type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Chuck 2005-09-11 14:57:04 UTC]

late last week I did a further update to the 'latest and greatest' and still 
have the same problem with the gentoo-supplied libspf. I thought maybe it 
needed something newer than the last update. emerge info below: 
 
prometheus ~ # emerge info 
Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 
2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) 
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5 
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12 
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6 
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10 
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1 
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo 
http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo" 
MAKEOPTS="-j3" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="x86 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups curl eds emboss encode 
foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gstreamer imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad 
mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png 
python quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts 
type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" 
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY 
 

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-08-01 10:06:02 UTC]

Can you try w/ libspf2-1.2.5-r1 (current stable), please?