segfault when adding OSPF virtual link on Bird 1.6.4

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Mon Dec 10 02:04:58 CET 2018


On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 09:48:52PM +0100, Cybertinus wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> Today I was experimenting with a Bird setup. All the Bird machines are
> CentOS 7.6 VMs running in Virtualbox on my laptop. When I add an OSPF
> virtual link to hook up two area 0's together I get a segfault of Bird 1.6.4
> itself. All the links between the VMs are defined as "Internal Network"
> links. Each connection between routers got it's own internal network, so
> there should be no overlap between those connections.

Hello

Thanks for the thorough bugreport, the attached patch should fix the issue.

> Steps to reproduce:
> 1. Create a bird.conf with the following contents specified in the attached
> bird.conf
> 2. Start Bird
> 3. Add the following line to the area 1 config:
>        virtual link 2.2.2.2;
> 4. Run `birdc configure`
> 5. Observe the following error in your syslog:
> Dec  8 21:01:35 r3 kernel: bird[3469]: segfault at 32 ip 0000000000429fe0 sp
> 00007fff599d3350 error 4 in bird[400000+73

Technically it would crash during reconfiguration when vlink is already
defined, even if the reconfiguration changes nothing.

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Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santiago at crfreenet.org)
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