[SSSD] [PATCH] Do not attempt to resolve nameless servers

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Fri Apr 1 19:34:29 UTC 2011


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On 04/01/2011 07:45 AM, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> The attached patch reverts the change I introduced earlier with my patch
> c825253e74027f87b900c0b811ae019d767c0848.
> 
> The patch is a one-liner but its context is a little more complex - I
> actually reached out to Martin Nagy, who wrote much of the original fail
> over code to be sure.
> 
> The fail over code is not strictly in charge of resolving. Its main
> function is to provide a server to connect to for a service.
> 
> It is legal, although not currently used, to have a server that has no
> name (server->common == NULL). In this case, no resolving should be done
> and it is assumed that the failover user, which are the SSSD back ends
> in our case, would perform any resolving out of band, perhaps using the
> user_data attribute of fo_server structure.
> 
> The attached patch would fix the segfault described in #692472 but not
> its root cause, which appears to be an issue with the confdb.


Ack.


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