[HADOOP-5462] Glibc double free exception thrown when chown syscall fails.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.21.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.21.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Sreekanth Ramakrishnan
• Reporter: Sreekanth Ramakrishnan
• Created: 11/Mar/09 10:41
• Updated: 24/Aug/10 20:36
• Resolved: 08/Apr/09 14:17

Description

When setuid script's chown call fails, a glibc double free exception is thrown. The reason for this is that file_handle which was opened to write the pid file is already closed and the cleanup: label tries to close it once again.