aureport endless loop with specific input on Debian 8

[Steve Grubb]

On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 15:05:32 +0200
Vincas Dargis <vindrg at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have reported bug in Debian bug tracker [1] that after upgrading to
> Debian 8, aureport does not finish it's "reporting" for hours one
> some inputs, generated by ausearch. It's stuck with 100% CPU usage.

If I read that correctly, this is against audit-2.4. There was linked
list fixes to ausearch/report in 2.4.4. I suspect that fixes your bug
report. Its not reproducible with the latest version.

-Steve

 
> Since maintainer haven't responded yet, I though I could try for help
> directly here.
> 
> More info, and two example input files for reproducing attached in
> same bug report.
> 
> I wonder, would it be... "reasonable" to hope for some kind isolated
> patch that Debian maintainer could apply and release fix for Debian 8
> which is currently in "stable" mode? I know it's kinda not the
> mailing list to ask about it, but maybe you have experience in that
> regard?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=841272
> 
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