[Mauiusers] Maui bug buffer overrun

[Bas van der Vlies]

On Apr 11, 2008, at 5:41 PM, Douglas Wightman wrote:

> It's possible I was looking at the wrong patch.  I was looking at the
> one mentioned here:
>
> http://www.clusterresources.com/pipermail/mauiusers/2005-September/001734.html
>
Hi Douglas,

   There is a thread here with an explanation:
    - http://www.clusterresources.com/pipermail/mauiusers/2006-November/002370.html

  And some other where your quote came from.  There is no patch  :- 
(  only a statement that is under investigation of cluster resources  
and that  you encountered the same bug.  After that is was quiet.

Now we have the attention of cluster resources people. I have another  
question. I have made a patch for FairShare groups in combo with  
Torque. Fairshare groups only look at the primary unix group. With  
this patch secondary groups can also be used for a FairShare.  The  
archives are useful :-)
  * http://www.clusterresources.com/pipermail/mauiusers/2008-January/003066.html

It fixes also 2 other issues

Thanks


>
> On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 11:35 +0200, Bas van der Vlies wrote:
>> 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
>>>>
>>>> }}}
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Bas van der Vlies
>>>> basv at sara.nl
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
>>
>

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