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  1. Bug #1347147
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Comment 0 for bug 1347147

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Benjamin Kaduk (kaduk-launchpad) wrote : krb5 database propagation enters infinite loop

In some conditions, propagating a kerberos database to a slave KDC server can stall.
This is due to a misoptimization by gcc 4.8 of the CIRCLEQ famliy of macros, apparently due to overzealous strict aliasing deductions.

One case of this stall is reported at http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/kerberos/2014-July/020007.html (and the rest of the thread), and there is an entry in the upstream bugtracker at http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=7860 .

gcc 4.9 (as used in Debian unstable at present) is not believed to induce this problem. Upstream has patched their code to use the TAILQ family of macros instead, as a workaround, but that workaround has not yet appeared in an upstream release: https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/26d8744129

Because of the different compiler versions used on Debian and Ubuntu, I am filing this as an Ubuntu-specific bug.