[monitoring-plugins] Fix for unclosed filehandle in pst3 on Solaris

Jan Wagner git at monitoring-plugins.org
Tue Oct 13 11:40:11 CEST 2015


    Module: monitoring-plugins
    Branch: master
    Commit: d077d64e54c6162e410c4227fd75d090758594ea
    Author: abrist <abrist at nagios.com>
 Committer: Jan Wagner <waja at cyconet.org>
      Date: Tue Jul 28 15:20:38 2015 -0400
       URL: https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/repositories/monitoring-plugins/commit/?id=d077d64

Fix for unclosed filehandle in pst3 on Solaris

On Solaris, check_procs uses pst3 instead of /bin/ps (see
http://monitoring-plugins.org/doc/faq/ps-on-solaris.html for background). There's
a small bug in pst3 which causes it to NOT report some processes that are at
the end of the process table, at least on very busy systems (we noticed this
on a CoolThreads T5240 with load averages up to 90).

The bug is that a filehandle is not properly closed.

Thanks to jwinkle01 for finding and patching the bug.

(Closes #1203)

---

 plugins-root/pst3.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/plugins-root/pst3.c b/plugins-root/pst3.c
index ee9d108..c3589f0 100644
--- a/plugins-root/pst3.c
+++ b/plugins-root/pst3.c
@@ -139,8 +139,10 @@ try_again:
     if((ps_fd = open(ps_name, O_RDONLY)) == -1)
       continue;
 
-    if((as_fd = open(as_name, O_RDONLY)) == -1)
+    if((as_fd = open(as_name, O_RDONLY)) == -1) {
+      close(ps_fd);
       continue;
+    }
 
     if(read(ps_fd, &psinfo, sizeof(psinfo)) != sizeof(psinfo)) {
       int err = errno;



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