[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#763896: Bug#763896: schroot: infinite allocation on uid/gid entry errors.

[Roger Leigh]

tags 763896 + pending fixed-upstream
thanks

On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 11:19:22AM -0300, Daniel Serpell wrote:
> The attached patch fixes an infinite allocation loop inside the
> passwd::query_name, passwd::query_uid, group::query_gid and
> group::query_name functions.
> 
> Current code simply fails with std::bad_alloc on any error,
> because it always retries with a bigger buffer.

Applied to git on the 1.6 and master branch:

https://github.com/rleigh-codelibre/schroot/commit/83bc6d3f99b1aa04a4864faeeb867ed09bae8e55
https://github.com/rleigh-codelibre/schroot/commit/76a85f0fb34d39f796185d296fadde81b79a3948


Thanks,
Roger

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