server segfault

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Russell,
   So this Argus was exiting and hit a 0x0 pointer
in trying to process the output queue.  That's
easy to fix, the question is, "was argus suppose to
be exiting?"

Carter

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-argus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> [mailto:owner-argus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu]On Behalf Of Russell Fulton
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 3:33 PM
> To: argus
> Subject: server segfault
> 
> 
> I had an crash form argus beta 7 last night:
> 
> 
> bash-2.04$ gdb bin/argus_bpf data/argus_bpf.core 
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> This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-freebsd"...
> Core was generated by `argus_bpf'.
> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libm.so.2...done.
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.4...done.
> Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1...done.
> #0  ArgusGetQueueCount (queue=0x0) at ./ArgusUtil.c:268
> 268        return (queue->count);
> (gdb) where
> #0  ArgusGetQueueCount (queue=0x0) at ./ArgusUtil.c:268
> #1  0x804d8ac in ArgusGenerateStatusMar () at ./ArgusOutput.c:213
> #2  0x804d97a in ArgusGenerateClosingMar (status=16) at 
> ./ArgusOutput.c:239
> #3  0x804e957 in ArgusSendClosingMar (fd=8, status=16) at 
> ./ArgusOutput.c:856
> #4  0x804e88a in ArgusOutputCleanUp (param=0) at ./ArgusOutput.c:796
> #5  0x804df60 in ArgusOutputProcess () at ./ArgusOutput.c:441
> #6  0x804d635 in ArgusInitOutput () at ./ArgusOutput.c:132
> #7  0x804a50d in main (argc=7, argv=0xbfbffb80) at ./argus.c:376
> (gdb) l
> 263
> 264     #ifdef ARGUSDEBUG
> 265        ArgusDebug (6, "ArgusGetQueueCount (0x%x) 
> returning %d\n", queue, queue->count);
> 266     #endif
> 267
> 268        return (queue->count);
> 269     }
> 270
> 271     void
> 272     ArgusPushQueue(struct ArgusQueueStruct *queue, struct 
> ArgusFlowStruct *obj)
> (gdb) p queue
> $1 = (struct ArgusQueueStruct *) 0x0
> 
> Sorry I can't eaily use argusbugs because the machine cant send mail 
> directly to the net.
> 
> Platform Free BSD 4.2
> 
> 
> Russell Fulton, Computer and Network Security Officer
> The University of Auckland,  New Zealand
> 
> 
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