openldap-bugs April 2026

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[Issue 10236] New: fragmentation makes mdb_page_alloc slow
by openldap-its＠openldap.org 14 Oct '26

14 Oct '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 10495] New: Environment variable for Systemd is ignored by configure
by openldap-its＠openldap.org 14 Oct '26

14 Oct '26

https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10495 Issue ID: 10495 Summary: Environment variable for Systemd is ignored by configure Product: OpenLDAP Version: 2.6.13 Hardware: All OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: needs_review Severity: normal Priority: --- Component: build Assignee: bugs(a)openldap.org Reporter: openldap.aftermost863(a)passinbox.com Target Milestone: --- Hello, When using the configure script to generate the Makefile, the documentation in the --help option states that the environment variable 'systemdsystemunitdir' can be used to override the default system path for Systemd units. However, this does not work: if I export the variable with a valid existing path (e.g. 'export systemdsystemunitdir=/tmp/test') and then run ./configure, the variable is found but is ignored in the output variables and is therefore not used in the Makefile. config.log: ... ## ---------------- ## ## Cache variables. ## ## ---------------- ## ... ac_cv_env_systemdsystemunitdir_set=set ac_cv_env_systemdsystemunitdir_value=/tmp/test ... ## ----------------- ## ## Output variables. ## ## ----------------- ## ... systemdsystemunitdir='/usr/lib/systemd/system' ... The configure script seems to override that variable on line 23942: systemdsystemunitdir= I don’t quite understand why this line is there, and it seems suspicious to me. However, if I remove it and run ./configure again in the exact same shell, config.log now shows the correct path in the output variables, and the Makefile uses it correctly afterward: ... ## ---------------- ## ## Cache variables. ## ## ---------------- ## ... ac_cv_env_systemdsystemunitdir_set=set ac_cv_env_systemdsystemunitdir_value=/tmp/test ... pkg_cv_systemdsystemunitdir=/tmp/test ## ----------------- ## ## Output variables. ## ## ----------------- ## ... systemdsystemunitdir='/tmp/test' I had this issue on both Debian 13 (using bash) and Arch Linux (using zsh). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue.

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[Issue 10455] New: Allow handling of empty group in memberof_saveMember_cb()
by openldap-its＠openldap.org 09 Oct '26

09 Oct '26

https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10455 Issue ID: 10455 Summary: Allow handling of empty group in memberof_saveMember_cb() Product: OpenLDAP Version: 2.6.12 Hardware: All OS: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: needs_review Severity: normal Priority: --- Component: overlays Assignee: bugs(a)openldap.org Reporter: roger.j.meier(a)gmx.ch Target Milestone: --- Created attachment 1117 --> https://bugs.openldap.org/attachment.cgi?id=1117&action=edit Protect e_attrs with a NULL pointer test instead of an assert() to allow empty groups In slapd/overlays/memberof.c, the callback memberof_saveMember_cb() uses two assert statements for the sr_entry and its e_attrs pointer in sequence. This makes the service abort on an empty group. If the use of rs->sr_entry->e_attrs is just protected by a test of the e_attrs pointer, the code does not abort and allows empty groups. Please consider to add this patch to the official source. It was now several month in production and did not lead to unexpected results. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue.

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[Issue 10401] New: liblber: undefined shift of -1 in ber_decode_int()
by openldap-its＠openldap.org 07 Oct '26

07 Oct '26

https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10401 Issue ID: 10401 Summary: liblber: undefined shift of -1 in ber_decode_int() Product: OpenLDAP Version: 2.6.10 Hardware: All OS: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: needs_review Severity: normal Priority: --- Component: libraries Assignee: bugs(a)openldap.org Reporter: hyc(a)openldap.org Target Milestone: --- Report from curl project. Full info here https://gist.github.com/bagder/44a0711fa1989951f2a2395fe992530e Relevant stack trace: [Environment] UBSAN_OPTIONS=exitcode=77:print_stacktrace=1:silence_unsigned_overflow=1 +----------------------------------------Release Build Stacktrace----------------------------------------+ Command: /mnt/scratch0/clusterfuzz/resources/platform/linux/unshare -c -n /mnt/scratch0/clusterfuzz/bot/builds/clusterfuzz-builds_curl_4cc8f5a06444eef5b5b6682762bec8608d45b81b/revisions/curl_fuzzer_ldap -rss_limit_mb=2560 -timeout=60 -runs=100 /mnt/scratch0/clusterfuzz/bot/inputs/fuzzer-testcases/crash-1364ab2dfa120fe4460381a08f4f158f8d47a30c Time ran: 0.14911556243896484 INFO: Running with entropic power schedule (0xFF, 100). INFO: Seed: 1947994398 INFO: Loaded 1 modules (211579 inline 8-bit counters): 211579 [0x559e5bb87a40, 0x559e5bbbb4bb), INFO: Loaded 1 PC tables (211579 PCs): 211579 [0x559e5bbbb4c0,0x559e5bef5c70), /mnt/scratch0/clusterfuzz/bot/builds/clusterfuzz-builds_curl_4cc8f5a06444eef5b5b6682762bec8608d45b81b/revisions/curl_fuzzer_ldap: Running 1 inputs 100 time(s) each. Running: /mnt/scratch0/clusterfuzz/bot/inputs/fuzzer-testcases/crash-1364ab2dfa120fe4460381a08f4f158f8d47a30c decode.c:316:21: runtime error: left shift of negative value -1 #0 0x559e5b730e08 in ber_decode_int curl_fuzzer/build/openldap/src/openldap_external/libraries/liblber/decode.c:316:21 #1 0x559e5b730c5d in ber_get_int curl_fuzzer/build/openldap/src/openldap_external/libraries/liblber/decode.c:293:9 #2 0x559e5b6e60f3 in try_read1msg curl_fuzzer/build/openldap/src/openldap_external/libraries/libldap/result.c:592:7 #3 0x559e5b6e60f3 in wait4msg curl_fuzzer/build/openldap/src/openldap_external/libraries/libldap/result.c:393:12 #4 0x559e5b6e60f3 in ldap_result curl_fuzzer/build/openldap/src/openldap_external/libraries/libldap/result.c:120:7 #5 0x559e5af804d6 in oldap_connecting curl/lib/openldap.c:826:10 #6 0x559e5aead984 in protocol_connecting curl/lib/multi.c:1794:14 #7 0x559e5aead984 in multi_runsingle curl/lib/multi.c:2510:16 #8 0x559e5aeacd4f in curl_multi_perform curl/lib/multi.c:2791:18 #9 0x559e5ae7fb38 in fuzz_handle_transfer(fuzz_data*) curl_fuzzer/curl_fuzzer.cc:419:5 #10 0x559e5ae7eff0 in LLVMFuzzerTestOneInput curl_fuzzer/curl_fuzzer.cc:97:3 #11 0x559e5add608d in fuzzer::Fuzzer::ExecuteCallback(unsigned char const*, unsigned long) /src/llvm-project/compiler-rt/lib/fuzzer/FuzzerLoop.cpp:619:13 #12 0x559e5adc0e02 in fuzzer::RunOneTest(fuzzer::Fuzzer*, char const*, unsigned long) /src/llvm-project/compiler-rt/lib/fuzzer/FuzzerDriver.cpp:329:6 #13 0x559e5adc6cd0 in fuzzer::FuzzerDriver(int*, char***, int (*)(unsigned char const*, unsigned long)) /src/llvm-project/compiler-rt/lib/fuzzer/FuzzerDriver.cpp:865:9 #14 0x559e5adf2802 in main /src/llvm-project/compiler-rt/lib/fuzzer/FuzzerMain.cpp:20:10 #15 0x7c4beb5b7082 in __libc_start_main /build/glibc-LcI20x/glibc-2.31/csu/libc-start.c:308:16 #16 0x559e5adb9eed in _start SUMMARY: UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer: undefined-behavior decode.c:316:21 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue.

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[Issue 10286] New: ldap_pvt_gettime may result in "not new enough csn" problems in multi-thread case.
by openldap-its＠openldap.org 25 Sep '26

25 Sep '26

https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10286 Issue ID: 10286 Summary: ldap_pvt_gettime may result in "not new enough csn" problems in multi-thread case. Product: OpenLDAP Version: 2.6.6 Hardware: All OS: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: needs_review Severity: normal Priority: --- Component: libraries Assignee: bugs(a)openldap.org Reporter: 971748261(a)qq.com Target Milestone: --- Created attachment 1041 --> https://bugs.openldap.org/attachment.cgi?id=1041&action=edit the log of adding two entry which shows the time sequence. I used openldap as krb5's database, and openldap was deploymented in mirrormode. I tried to add kerberos principals via kadmin.local -q "addprinc -randkey principal. slapd log showed that the entry of kadmin/admin was added earlier than the entry of ossuser. But the csn of kadmin/admin was greater than ossuser. In this case, when the two entry began to sync to the other slapd server, ossuser was ignored because of "csn not new enough" -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue.

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[Issue 10269] New: slap-constraint: Refactor to use a sorted array
by openldap-its＠openldap.org 08 Sep '26

08 Sep '26

https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10269 Issue ID: 10269 Summary: slap-constraint: Refactor to use a sorted array Product: OpenLDAP Version: 2.6.8 Hardware: All OS: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: needs_review Severity: normal Priority: --- Component: overlays Assignee: bugs(a)openldap.org Reporter: quanah(a)openldap.org Target Milestone: --- As noted in the comments for slapo-constraint: /* * Linked list of attribute constraints which we should enforce. * This is probably a sub optimal structure - some form of sorted * array would be better if the number of attributes constrained is * likely to be much bigger than 4 or 5. We stick with a list for * the moment. */ -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue.

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[Issue 9284] New: Need man page for vc contrib overlay
by openldap-its＠openldap.org 08 Sep '26

08 Sep '26

https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9284 Issue ID: 9284 Summary: Need man page for vc contrib overlay Product: OpenLDAP Version: 2.4.50 Hardware: All OS: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: --- Component: contrib Assignee: bugs(a)openldap.org Reporter: quanah(a)openldap.org Target Milestone: --- The verified credentials overlay in contrib is missing a man page describing its purpose -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue.

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[Issue 10277] New: How to deal with desync between cn=config and back-ldif DNs
by openldap-its＠openldap.org 08 Sep '26

08 Sep '26

https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10277 Issue ID: 10277 Summary: How to deal with desync between cn=config and back-ldif DNs Product: OpenLDAP Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: needs_review Severity: normal Priority: --- Component: slapd Assignee: bugs(a)openldap.org Reporter: ondra(a)mistotebe.net Target Milestone: --- If someone deletes a cn=config entry offline (or through bugs in cn=config, they exist, will file as I isolate), the X-ORDERED RDNs will not be contiguous. cn=config papers over this internally at a cost of never being able to modify the entries affected. Right now the only remedy is slapcat+slapadd of the whole config DB, is that the best we can do? When we detect this (doesn't always happen), should we fix the on-disk copy on startup? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue.

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[Issue 9782] New: regression test its8752 failure
by openldap-its＠openldap.org 08 Sep '26

08 Sep '26

https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9782 Issue ID: 9782 Summary: regression test its8752 failure Product: OpenLDAP Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: needs_review Severity: normal Priority: --- Component: slapd Assignee: bugs(a)openldap.org Reporter: ondra(a)mistotebe.net Target Milestone: --- If a contextCSN update (new cookie) goes from server A through server B to server C, server C will use that CSN to update entryCSN as well (which neither A nor B did). This fails the initial replication check. The issue has likely existed since deltasync was made possible, a version of this is confirmed at least in 2.4.60 onwards to current master. In principle, it is related to concerns raised in ITS#9580. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue.

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[Issue 10217] New: autoca should support more key types
by openldap-its＠openldap.org 08 Sep '26

08 Sep '26

https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10217 Issue ID: 10217 Summary: autoca should support more key types Product: OpenLDAP Version: 2.6.7 Hardware: All OS: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: needs_review Severity: enhancement Priority: --- Component: overlays Assignee: bugs(a)openldap.org Reporter: hyc(a)openldap.org Target Milestone: --- Currently autoca only creates certificates using RSA keypairs. It should at least have an option to use Elliptic Curve keypairs. It probably also needs options to specify other signature algorithms other than the default of SHA256. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue.

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