[syslog-ng] 3.3.x conditional rewrite bug

Martin Holste mcholste at gmail.com
Thu Nov 10 19:50:33 CET 2011


Excellent!  Any estimate as to when it will be in the release tarball?

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Balazs Scheidler <bazsi at balabit.hu> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 01:45 -0600, Martin Holste wrote:
>> The following will not work in the 3.3.x branch:
>>
>> filter f_rewrite_cisco_program {
>> match('^(%(?:ASA|PIX|FWSM)\-\d\-\d{6}): ([^\n]+)' value("MESSAGE")
>> type("pcre") flags("store-matches" "nobackref")); };
>> rewrite r_cisco_program {
>>         set("$1", value("PROGRAM") condition(filter(f_rewrite_cisco_program)));
>>         set("$2", value("MESSAGE") condition(filter(f_rewrite_cisco_program)));
>> };
>>
>> It will process a few lines and then hang indefinitely.  It will
>> process ok if the condition is taken off of the filter, so I am
>> assuming this is a PCRE issue, though I found it made no difference to
>> remove the PCRE requirement and use a simpler matching expression.
>
> Thanks for catching this, this patch fixes that:
>
> commit fc744aae608a9848cb13fe8098b11423e941c41b
> Author: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi at balabit.hu>
> Date:   Wed Nov 9 21:17:34 2011 +0100
>
>    logrewrite: fixed conditional rewrite
>
>    In case condition() was specified for a rewrite rule and the condition
>    didn't match, the log_rewrite_queue() method erroneously returned without
>    either dropping the message or sending it on the log message pipeline.
>
>    Since rewrite rules may not drop messages, we should
>    always call log_pipe_forward_msg().
>
>    Reported-By: Martin Holste <mcholste at gmail.com>
>    Cc: <syslog-ng-stable at balabit.hu>
>    Signed-off-by: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi at balabit.hu>
>
>
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