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[Issue 10274] New: Replication issue on MMR configuration
by openldap-its＠openldap.org 24 Jun '26

24 Jun '26

https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10274 Issue ID: 10274 Summary: Replication issue on MMR configuration Product: OpenLDAP Version: 2.5.14 Hardware: All OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: needs_review Severity: normal Priority: --- Component: slapd Assignee: bugs(a)openldap.org Reporter: falgon.comp(a)gmail.com Target Milestone: --- Created attachment 1036 --> https://bugs.openldap.org/attachment.cgi?id=1036&action=edit In this attachment you will find 2 openldap configurations for 2 instances + slamd conf exemple + 5 screenshots to show the issue and one text file to explain what you see Hello we are openning this issue further to the initial post in technical : https://lists.openldap.org/hyperkitty/list/openldap-technical@openldap.org/… Issue : We are working on a project and we've come across an issue with the replication after performance testing : *Configuration :* RHEL 8.6 OpenLDAP 2.5.14 *MMR-delta *configuration on multiple servers attached 300,000 users configured and used for tests *olcLastBind: TRUE* Use of SLAMD (performance shooting) *Problem description:* We are currently running performance and resilience tests on our infrastructure using the SLAMD tool configured to perform BINDs and MODs on a defined range of accounts. We use a load balancer (VIP) to poll all of our servers equally. (but it is possible to do performance tests directly on each of the directories) With our current infrastructure we're able to perform approximately 300 MOD/BIND/s. Beyond that, we start to generate delays and can randomly come across one issue. However, when we run performance tests that exceed our write capacity, our replication between servers can randomly create an incident with directories being unable to catch up with their replication delay. The directories update their contextCSNs, but extremely slowly (like freezing). From then on, it's impossible for the directories to catch again. (even with no incoming traffic) A restart of the instance is required to perform a full refresh and solve the incident. We have enabled synchronization logs and have no error or refresh logs to indicate a problem ( we can provide you with logs if necessary). We suspect a write collision or a replication conflict but this is never write in our sync logs. We've run a lot of tests. For example, when we run a performance test on a single live server, we don't reproduce the problem. Anothers examples: if we define different accounts ranges for each server with SALMD, we don't reproduce the problem either. If we use only one account for the range, we don't reproduce the problem either. ______________________________________________________________________ I have add some screenshots on attachement to show you the issue and all the explanations. ______________________________________________________________________ *Symptoms :* One or more directories can no longer be replicated normally after performance testing ends. No apparent error logs. Need a restart of instances to solve the problem. *How to reproduce the problem:* Have at least two servers in MMR mode Set LastBind to TRUE Perform a SLAMD shot from a LoadBalancer in bandwidth mode OR start multiple SLAMD test on same time for each server with the same account range. Exceed the maximum write capacity of the servers. *SLAMD configuration :* authrate.sh --hostname ${HOSTNAME} --port ${PORTSSL} \ --useSSL --trustStorePath ${CACERTJKS} \ --trustStorePassword ${CACERTJKSPW} --bindDN "${BINDDN}" \ --bindPassword ${BINDPW} --baseDN "${BASEDN}" \ --filter "(uid=[${RANGE}])" --credentials ${USERPW} \ --warmUpIntervals ${WARMUP} \ --numThreads ${NTHREADS} ${ARGS} -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue.

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[Issue 10236] New: fragmentation makes mdb_page_alloc slow
by openldap-its＠openldap.org 24 Jun '26

24 Jun '26

https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10236 Issue ID: 10236 Summary: fragmentation makes mdb_page_alloc slow Product: LMDB Version: 0.9.31 Hardware: All OS: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: needs_review Severity: normal Priority: --- Component: liblmdb Assignee: bugs(a)openldap.org Reporter: aalekseyev(a)janestreet.com Target Milestone: --- Created attachment 1022 --> https://bugs.openldap.org/attachment.cgi?id=1022&action=edit patch is relative to LMDB_0.9.31 It's a known problem that mdb_page_alloc can be slow when the free list is large and fragmented. [1] [2] [3] I'm not sure it's known *how* slow it can be. In our workload we saw a fragmented freelist leading to a pathological O(n^2) behavior. To handle a multi-page allocation we iterate loading chunks of the free list one by one, and at every iteration we do O(n) work to check if the allocation can succeed. Even small-ish allocations (tens of pages) are repeatedly hitting this edge case, with free list growing to ~1000000, and the outer loop taking ~2000 iterations (10^9 worth of work in total, just to allocate a few pages). Even though I'm sure there are ways to avoid hitting this pathological scenario so much (avoid values larger than 4k, or fix whatever causes fragmentation), it seems unacceptable to have a performance cliff this bad. I made a patch to make the allocation take ~O(n*log(n)), by loading and merging multiple chunks at once instead of doing it one-by-one. I'd appreciate it if someone could review the patch (attached), improve it, and/or come up with an alternative fix. The code in `midl.c` is kinda meme-y, including a contribution from GPT-4o, but it performs well enough to speed up our pathological workload by ~20x (which is still ~3x away from the non-fragmented case). Anyway, the main thing that warrants scrutiny is the change in `mdb.c`: I understand very little about lmdb internals and I worry that loading multiple pages at once instead of one-by-one might break something. [1] issue #8664 [2] https://lists.openldap.org/hyperkitty/list/openldap-bugs@openldap.org/threa… [3] https://lists.openldap.org/hyperkitty/list/openldap-technical@openldap.org/… -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue.

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[Issue 10383] New: slapd-meta ignores olcDbIDAssertBind if olcDbURI defined after it
by openldap-its＠openldap.org 23 Jun '26

23 Jun '26

https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10383 Issue ID: 10383 Summary: slapd-meta ignores olcDbIDAssertBind if olcDbURI defined after it Product: OpenLDAP Version: 2.6.9 Hardware: x86_64 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: needs_review Severity: normal Priority: --- Component: slapd Assignee: bugs(a)openldap.org Reporter: david.frickert(a)protonmail.com Target Milestone: --- Hi, We are using slapd-meta to connect an OpenLDAP server to another external LDAP server and it works well on first configuration. However, if we want to update any info, e.g. the external LDAP URI, we must replace the olcDbURI attribute. This means that the ordering of the attributes change and this attribute is now defined after olcDbIDAssertBind. Didn't think this would be important, but after this change the "meta" connection stops working and upon enabling debugging i can see that the external LDAP server is responding with: "ldap_bind: Inappropriate authentication (48) additional info: Anonymous Simple Bind Disabled" This seems to imply that the olcDbIDAssertBind attribute is being ignored, likely due to being defined before olcDbURI (my assumption). Is this intended? If so, what can we do to mitigate this problem? Do we need to perform a replace on all attributes of the object to ensure correct ordering, or is there any way to perform an in-place attribute modification without making it shift its position in the object? Example: First configuration (OK): # {0}uri, {2}meta, config dn: olcMetaSub={0}uri,olcDatabase={2}meta,cn=config objectClass: olcMetaTargetConfig olcMetaSub: {0}uri --> olcDbURI: ldap://REDACTED/ou=users,REDACTED olcDbIDAssertBind: bindmethod=simple starttls=yes tls_reqcert=demand binddn="REDACTED" credentials="REDACTED" olcDbRewrite: {0}suffixmassage REDACTED REDACTED olcDbKeepalive: 0:0:0 olcDbBindTimeout: 100000 olcDbCancel: abandon After URI update (NOK): # {0}uri, {2}meta, config dn: olcMetaSub={0}uri,olcDatabase={2}meta,cn=config objectClass: olcMetaTargetConfig olcMetaSub: {0}uri olcDbIDAssertBind: bindmethod=simple starttls=yes tls_reqcert=demand binddn="REDACTED" credentials="REDACTED" olcDbRewrite: {0}suffixmassage REDACTED REDACTED olcDbKeepalive: 0:0:0 olcDbBindTimeout: 100000 olcDbCancel: abandon --> olcDbURI: ldap://REDACTED/ou=users,REDACTED The olcDbURI attribute is shifted to the bottom after a modify operation, and seems to cause these issues. Best Regards, David -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue.

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[Issue 10026] New: Refresh handling can skip entries (si_dirty not managed properly)
by openldap-its＠openldap.org 23 Jun '26

23 Jun '26

https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10026 Issue ID: 10026 Summary: Refresh handling can skip entries (si_dirty not managed properly) Product: OpenLDAP Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: needs_review Severity: normal Priority: --- Component: overlays Assignee: bugs(a)openldap.org Reporter: ondra(a)mistotebe.net Target Milestone: --- Take MPR plain syncrepl with 3+ providers. When a provider's own syncrepl session transitions to persist and a it starts a new parallel session towards another host, that session always has to start as a refresh. If that refresh serves entries to us, our handling of si_dirty is not consistent: - if the existing persist session serves some of these entries to us, we can "forget" to pass the others to a newly connected consumer - same if the refresh is abandoned and we start refreshing from a different provider that might be behind what we were being served (again our consumers could suffer) - if we restart, si_dirty is forgotten and our consumers suffer even worse We might need to be told (at the beginning of the refresh?) what the end state we're going for is, so we can keep si_dirty on until then. And somehow persist that knowledge in the DB... -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue.

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[Issue 9343] New: Expand ppolicy policy configuration to allow URL filter
by openldap-its＠openldap.org 08 Jun '26

08 Jun '26

https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9343 Issue ID: 9343 Summary: Expand ppolicy policy configuration to allow URL filter Product: OpenLDAP Version: 2.5 Hardware: All OS: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: --- Component: overlays Assignee: bugs(a)openldap.org Reporter: quanah(a)openldap.org Target Milestone: --- Currently, ppolicy only supports a single global default policy, and past that any policies must be manually added to a given user entry if they are supposed to have something other than the default policy. Also, some sites want no default policy, and only a specific subset to have a policy applied to them. For both of these cases, it would be helpful if it were possible to configure a policy to apply to a set of users via a URL similar to the way we handle creating groups of users in dynlist -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue.

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[Issue 9640] New: ACL privilege for MOD_INCREMENT
by openldap-its＠openldap.org 08 Jun '26

08 Jun '26

https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9640 Issue ID: 9640 Summary: ACL privilege for MOD_INCREMENT Product: OpenLDAP Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: --- Component: slapd Assignee: bugs(a)openldap.org Reporter: michael(a)stroeder.com Target Milestone: --- I'm using LDAP write operations with MOD_INCREMENT with pre-read-control for uidNumber/gidNumber generation. I'd like to limit write access to an Integer attribute "nextID" to MOD_INCREMENT, ideally even restricting the de-/increment value. (Uniqueness is achieved with slapo-unique anyway but still I'd like to avoid users messing with this attribute). IMHO the ideal solution would be a new privilege "i". Example for limiting write access to increment by one and grant read access for using read control: access to attrs=nextID val=1 by group=... =ri Example for decrementing by two without read: access to attrs=nextID val=-2 by group=... =i -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue.

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[Issue 10395] New: Support multiple readers on uncommitted changes
by openldap-its＠openldap.org 08 Jun '26

08 Jun '26

https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10395 Issue ID: 10395 Summary: Support multiple readers on uncommitted changes Product: LMDB Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: needs_review Severity: normal Priority: --- Component: liblmdb Assignee: bugs(a)openldap.org Reporter: renault.cle(a)gmail.com Target Milestone: --- Created attachment 1086 --> https://bugs.openldap.org/attachment.cgi?id=1086&action=edit A patch to support multiple readers on uncommitted changes Hello, The attached patch is not meant to be merged immediately into LMDB. Still, it demonstrates how I added a helpful feature to the key-value store: reading uncommitted changes from multiple transactions. I am conscious that the patch still requires some work and uses non-C99 features, i.e., atomics are C11, which could be a blocker for it to be merged upstream. I would also be delighted to merge these changes under a flag/define to ensure we don't impact other users with non-C99 stuff. The main feature we need at Meilisearch is to read uncommitted changes from multiple threads, compute parallel post-processing of different data structures [1], and speed up the search requests. We could have done the post-processing in a following transaction by opening multiple read transactions, but this would mean that the post-processed data structure would not include newly inserted or modified document IDs. Both data structures would be desync. Regarding the design choice, I decided to follow the same design as the nested write transactions: use the parent argument of the mdb_txn_begin [2], and allow the MDB_RDONLY flag, which was disallowed when the parent argument was non-NULL [3]. I find it clear enough that, by calling the mdb_txn_begin function with these arguments, you can call it multiple times (I need to update the doc) to obtain nested read-only transactions from the parent write transaction. ret = mdb_txn_begin(env, parent_txn, MDB_RDONLY, new_nested_rtxn); Note that this early proposal lacks security and error handling. The generated transactions are fake-read-only and actually write transactions that share the underlying parent allocations and data structures. This is unsafe and must be changed or reviewed carefully, but most importantly, we need to add read-only capabilities to these transactions to disallow writes. Using a Rust wrapper on top of LMDB, I wrapped the fake read-only transactions into ReadTxn, which disallows any writes at compile time. However, I haven't checked the conflict database creations or openings. The main issues I encountered were concurrent free of the main shared data structures when the different threads owning the transactions were dropping the transactions simultaneously. So, I decided to implement the equivalent of an ARC to free resources only when the last nested transaction was freed. I can share numbers about how this feature improves the post-processing by 4x-9x or from 1200s to 120s [1]. You can look at this PR, which I would be happy to merge once an improved version of this patch lands on LMDB upstream. I would be very happy if you could guide me a bit on how I could improve this patch to make it mergeable into LMDB. We want to contribute useful features like this to LMDB and not keep a deviant fork. LMDB works great; we are happy about it, and its performance is predictable. Have a lovely week, kero [1]: https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/5307 [2]: https://github.com/LMDB/lmdb/blob/14d6629bc8a9fe40d8a6bee1bf71c45afe7576b6/… [3]: https://github.com/LMDB/lmdb/blob/14d6629bc8a9fe40d8a6bee1bf71c45afe7576b6/… -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue.

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[Issue 10353] New: No TLS connection on Windows because of missing ENOTCONN in socket.h
by openldap-its＠openldap.org 03 Jun '26

03 Jun '26

https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10353 Issue ID: 10353 Summary: No TLS connection on Windows because of missing ENOTCONN in socket.h Product: OpenLDAP Version: 2.6.10 Hardware: All OS: Windows Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: needs_review Severity: normal Priority: --- Component: libraries Assignee: bugs(a)openldap.org Reporter: julien.wadel(a)belledonne-communications.com Target Milestone: --- On Windows, the TLS connection cannot be done and we get the connection error: Can't contact LDAP server. => Connections are done with WSAGetLastError(). After getting WSAEWOULDBLOCK, the connection is not restart because of the state WSAENOTCONN that is not known. OpenLDAP use ENOTCONN that is set to 126 by "ucrt/errno.h" while WSAENOTCONN is 10057L. Adding #define ENOTCONN WSAENOTCONN like for EWOULDBLOCK resolve the issue. Reference commit on external project: https://gitlab.linphone.org/BC/public/external/openldap/-/commit/62fbfb12e8… -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue.

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[Issue 9739] New: Undefined reference to ber_sockbuf_io_udp in 2.6.0
by openldap-its＠openldap.org 03 Jun '26

03 Jun '26

https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9739 Issue ID: 9739 Summary: Undefined reference to ber_sockbuf_io_udp in 2.6.0 Product: OpenLDAP Version: 2.6.0 Hardware: All OS: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: needs_review Severity: normal Priority: --- Component: build Assignee: bugs(a)openldap.org Reporter: simon.pichugin(a)gmail.com Target Milestone: --- While I was trying to build OpenLDAP 2.6 on Fedora Rawhide I've got the error message: /usr/bin/ld: ./.libs/libldap.so: undefined reference to `ber_sockbuf_io_udp' I've checked commits from https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9673 and found that 'ber_sockbuf_io_udp' was not added to https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap/-/blob/master/libraries/liblber/… I've asked on the project's mailing list and got a reply: "That symbol only exists if OpenLDAP is built with LDAP_CONNECTIONLESS defined, which is not a supported feature. Feel free to file a bug report at https://bugs.openldap.org/" https://lists.openldap.org/hyperkitty/list/openldap-technical@openldap.org/… Hence, creating the bug. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue.

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[Issue 9716] New: Fix default guide versions for head and 2.6
by openldap-its＠openldap.org 26 May '26

26 May '26

https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9716 Issue ID: 9716 Summary: Fix default guide versions for head and 2.6 Product: OpenLDAP Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: needs_review Severity: normal Priority: --- Component: documentation Assignee: bugs(a)openldap.org Reporter: quanah(a)openldap.org Target Milestone: --- The preamble file needs to be fixed in openldap head and the 2.6 release branch to be correct. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue.

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