[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk 0013301]: AMI UpdateConfig -- When creating category, memory allocation failure in config.c

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http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=13301 
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Reported By:                trevo
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    Asterisk
Issue ID:                   13301
Category:                   Core/General
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   crash
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     feedback
Asterisk Version:           1.6.0-beta9 
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases): N/A 
SVN Revision (number only!):  
Disclaimer on File?:        N/A 
Request Review:              
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Date Submitted:             2008-08-14 02:00 CDT
Last Modified:              2008-08-14 18:22 CDT
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Summary:                    AMI UpdateConfig -- When creating category, memory
allocation failure in config.c
Description: 
Follow this telnet log to reproduce.  When attempting to execute the second
block asterisk crashes and in the logs I see this error:
ERROR[28453]
/builddir/build/BUILD/asterisk-1.6.0-beta9/include/asterisk/utils.h: Memory
Allocation Failure in function ALLOC_COMMENT at line 129 of config.c


Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
Asterisk Call Manager/1.1
Action: login
Username: admin
Secret: admin
Events: off

Response: Success
Message: Authentication accepted

Action: UpdateConfig
SrcFilename: iax.conf
DstFilename: iax.tmp.conf
Reload: no
Action-000000: NewCat
Cat-000000: tmpcat

Connection closed by foreign host.
^ At this point asterisk dies
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 (0091429) snuffy (manager) - 2008-08-14 18:22
 http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=13301#c91429 
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i think i read the doc wrong.. nevermind.. ;)
but yes it does seem completely plausable that it runs out of memory if
your iax.conf is as you say 270mb and your trying to add new category..
will have to look over code more closely 

Issue History 
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2008-08-14 18:22 snuffy         Note Added: 0091429                          
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