[Mauiusers] Maui bug buffer overrun

[Bas van der Vlies]

Douglas Wightman wrote:
> Going over the thread you reference it appears as though there was a
> request by Dave that the patch be tweaked to utilize the MUSNPrintF()
> function found in Maui.  Has this been done?  We'd love to integrate
> your patch but we'd like to stick to Maui'isms.
> 
> Thanks!
> 

Douglas,

   Thanks for a reaction. But what you write was not the real problem. Did 
you read the thread, because a colleague of yours wrote:
{{{
On Nov 7, 2006, at 4:43 PM, wightman wrote:

 > > The patch looks good.  We will definitely include it in the next patch
 > > release.
This was the NODEALLOCMAPS patch.

 > >
 > > Also, we are still investigating the segv from MMAX_JOB.  We have
 > > reproduced the crash and, as somebody mentioned earlier in this
 > > thread,
 > > the real issue is that the MJob array is not properly terminated.  We
 > > are running Maui under valgrind in hopes of catching when this occurs.
 > >
}}}

Or is this something else?


PS) What is the procedure for a patch to be applied. Several people have 
mailes some improvements or bug fixes?

Regards

> - Douglas
> 
> On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 23:07 +0200, Bas van der Vlies wrote:
>> On Apr 9, 2008, at 5:21 PM, Miguel Ros wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I had some problems with a Linux x86_64 fedora core 8: Maui
>>> was crashing with SIGSEGV from time to time and showq was
>>> not responding correctly
>>>
>>> There are a lot of buffer overrun problems in Maui that are not
>>> solved
>>> yet in the official release:
>>>
>>> http://www.clusterresources.com/pipermail/mauiusers/2005-September/001724.html
>>>
>>> I have attached a patch file for Maui 3.2.6p19 - 3.2.6p20, I hope
>>> that it will be applied to the official release
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Miguel
>>> <sprintf_bug.patch><ATT00001.txt>
>>
>> Thanks for the patch, maybe we must setup a repository where we
>> collect the patches. Because there is lately no response when people
>> submit patches for maui.
>>
>>
>> I also reported that maui crashed when i lot of jobs where submitted
>> and i promise that it will be fixed,  see thread:
>>  *   [Mauiusers] maui crashes with segv (version 3.2.6.p16) (2006)
>>
>>
>> and i added some explanation (also from the thread):
>> {{{
>> I have adjusted the MAX_MHBUF parameter in msched.h to a higher value.
>> No it did not crash, but it is still possible not to find a free job
>> hash table slot.  IF you allow more jobs then to have also increase
>> this
>> parameter.
>>
>> /* HvB */
>> /*
>> #define MAX_MHBUF           768
>> */
>> #define MAX_MHBUF          4000
>>
>> }}}
>>
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>>
>> --
>> Bas van der Vlies
>> basv at sara.nl
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