[Nufw-devel] [PATCH] Fix problem with sasl_set_mutex

[Eric Leblond]

Hi,

When working on NuFW (http://www.nufw.org), I've encounter some weird crash
when calling sasl_dispose. The problem was in fact a logic problem in
sasl_set_mutex.

NuFW uses sasl and libldap_r. NuFW has to do a call to sasl_set_mutex
because it is multithreaded. One of the NuFW module uses libldap_r which
also does a call to sasl_set_mutex. By doing this, we run into a problem
because sasl_MUTEX_* function change during run time. Thus we can
allocate a mutex with NuFW function and destroy it with libldap_r
function. This lead to a crash in almost all cases.

IMHO, the only clean workaround is to modify sasl_set_mutex(): it should
not be run twice in the same program. I attach a simple patch to this
mail which implement this behaviour.

BR,
-- 
Eric Leblond
INL: http://www.inl.fr/
NuFW: http://www.nufw.org/

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