[Mimedefang] Race Condition Creating Quarantine Dir
Kevin A. McGrail
kmcgrail at pccc.com
Fri Nov 6 15:16:37 EST 2009
Today, I had an issue where two slaves tried to create the same quarantine
sub dir at the same time using the 32K limit patch I posted a while back.
Anyway, if you are also hitting that 32K Quarantine Limit, here's a second
patch where I've added some logs for errors when creating the Quarantine
Directories and tried to allocate for the race condition we believe caused
the issue.
From:
http://www.peregrinehw.com/downloads/MIMEDefang/contrib/get_quarantine_dir_fix_for_32000_limit_patch_2.67-part2
And speaking of which, is anyone else also being as hammered with phishing
zip files attached to emails?
regards,
KAM
--- mimedefang-2.67/mimedefang.pl.in Fri Nov 6 13:26:23 2009
+++ mimedefang-2.67-KAM/mimedefang.pl.in Fri Nov 6 13:25:05 2009
@@ -1326,8 +1326,14 @@
}
if (!$success) {
- $QuarantineSubdir = "";
- return "";
+ md_syslog('err', "$MsgID: Error creating quarantine directory
[$QuarantineSubdir] '$!'");
+ #Due to race conditions where two slaves can try and create the
same dir, we can check to see if it has been created again
+ if ($! =~ /File exists/i && -d $QuarantineSubdir) {
+ #NOTHING
+ } else {
+ $QuarantineSubdir = "";
+ return "";
+ }
}
}
@@ -1340,6 +1346,7 @@:
}
} while(!$success && ($tries++ < 1000));
if (!$success) {
+ md_syslog('err', "$MsgID: Error creating quarantine directory
[$QuarantineSubdir] '$!'");
$QuarantineSubdir = "";
return "";
}
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