[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk 0017365]: Race condition causes manager session event list to underflow causing null pointer de-ref and crash.

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The following issue has been ASSIGNED. 
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https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=17365 
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Reported By:                davidw
Assigned To:                tilghman
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Project:                    Asterisk
Issue ID:                   17365
Category:                   Core/ManagerInterface
Reproducibility:            sometimes
Severity:                   crash
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
Asterisk Version:           SVN 
JIRA:                        
Regression:                 No 
Reviewboard Link:            
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases): 1.6.2 
SVN Revision (number only!): 264112 
Request Review:              
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Date Submitted:             2010-05-20 12:26 CDT
Last Modified:              2010-06-01 11:41 CDT
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Summary:                    Race condition causes manager session event list to
underflow causing null pointer de-ref and crash.
Description: 
There is a flaw in the reference count logic for events in manager.c which
means about once in the order of 100,000,000 events, the last event gets
purged, resulting in a trying to dereference a null last_ev pointer at:

0x0811b951 in process_events (s=0xb773819c) at manager.c:2685
2685       while ( (eqe = NEW_EVENT(s)) ) {

Scenario.  Run Asterisk for long enough with a manager logged in and
events being generated.

Expect.  Nothing untoward.

Get. Crash, as above.
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Relationships       ID      Summary
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related to          0017234 [patch] Memory leak in manager.c
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 (0122707) svnbot (reporter) - 2010-06-01 11:41
 https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=17365#c122707 
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Repository: asterisk
Revision: 266682

U   trunk/main/manager.c

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r266682 | tilghman | 2010-06-01 11:41:00 -0500 (Tue, 01 Jun 2010) | 16
lines

Eliminate stale manager events after a set interval, even if AMI clients
don't query for them.

Actions (or failures to act) by external clients should not cause memory
leaks
in Asterisk, especially when those continued leaks could cause Asterisk to
misbehave later.

(closes issue https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=17234)
 Reported by: mav3rick
 Patches: 
       20100510__issue17234.diff.txt uploaded by tilghman (license 14)
       20100517__issue17234__trunk.diff.txt uploaded by tilghman (license
14)
 Tested by: mav3rick, davidw

(closes issue https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=17365)
 Reported by: davidw

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http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk?view=rev&revision=266682 

Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2010-06-01 11:41 svnbot         Checkin                                      
2010-06-01 11:41 svnbot         Note Added: 0122707                          
2010-06-01 11:41 svnbot         Status                   ready for testing =>
assigned
2010-06-01 11:41 svnbot         Assigned To               => tilghman        
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