#153 Schema file parsing overly picky?
Closed: wontfix None Opened 12 years ago by mkosek.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=170791

Description of problem:

Directory Server is perhaps overly picky about how closely objectClasses
attributes must follow the syntax specified in RFC 2252 section 4.4.  In
particular, if the optional fields are not in the exact order specified by the
RFC (NAME; DESC; SUP; (STRUCTURAL|AUXILIARY|ABSTRACT); MUST; MAY) things may
break.

In particular, I used the ol-schema-migrate.pl script provided in the
OpenLDAPMigration wiki page at directory.fedora.redhat.com to migrate the Samba
3 LDAP schema (/usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.10/LDAP/samba.schema) to RHDirS format.
 This resulted in the following LDIF attribute for cn=schema:

 objectClasses: (
  1.3.6.1.4.1.7165.2.2.5
  NAME 'sambaDomain'
  SUP top
  STRUCTURAL
  DESC 'Samba Domain Information'
  MUST ( sambaDomainName $   sambaSID )
  MAY ( sambaNextRid $ sambaNextGroupRid $ sambaNextUserRid $
sambaAlgorithmicRidBase )
  )

Once loaded by Directory Server, however, the 'SUP top' is missing from the
resulting entry in the server's subschema.  Therefore, attempts by Samba to add
entries of this object class to the directory fail with an error that reads
something like "attribute 'objectClass' not allowed by schema".  If the LDIF
file is edited so the DESC directive and its string is moved between NAME and
SUP, 'SUP top' correctly appears in the server's subschema when the schema file
loaded.

Whether or not this behavior is changed in Directory Server, the wiki page at
http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Howto:OpenLDAPMigration needs to be
updated to reflect this issue.  (It says that the schema file is strictly
RFC2252 compliant, but it's not made obvious just how strict the BNF
specification is compared to what OpenLDAP accepts.)  This issue also affects
both Perl scripts referenced on that page, since neither checks ordering of the
directives.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
  redhat-ds-7.1-2

batch move to milestone 1.3

set default ticket origin to Community

Added initial screened field value.

{{{

918         while( ext ) { 
919                 for ( i = 0; ext->values && ext->values[i]; i++ ) { 
920                         printf( "\t %s      : %s\n", ext->term, ext->values[i]);

920 921 }
}}}
looks like this is missing ext = ext->next

This doesn't look right - the new code looks like this?
{{{
static void schema_create_errormsg( char errorbuf, size_t errorbufsize,
const char
prefix, const char name, const char fmt, ... );
static int parse_at_str(const char input, struct asyntaxinfo asipp, char errorbuf, size_t errorbufsize,
...

ifdef GNUC

    __attribute__ ((format (printf, 5, 6)));

else

    ;

endif

}}}
The GNUC attribute thing is supposed to go with the schema_create_errormsg - it allows gcc to check the varargs arguments to make sure they match the format string.

Otherwise, looks good.

Changes made based on Rich's comments.

git merge ticket153
Updating a68952f..305dac5
Fast-forward
ldap/servers/slapd/attrsyntax.c | 50 +-
ldap/servers/slapd/charray.c | 9 +-
ldap/servers/slapd/proto-slap.h | 10 +-
ldap/servers/slapd/schema.c | 1776 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
ldap/servers/slapd/slap.h | 40 +-
ldap/servers/slapd/slapi-plugin.h | 15 +
6 files changed, 1397 insertions(+), 503 deletions(-)

git push origin master
Counting objects: 21, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (11/11), done.
Writing objects: 100% (11/11), 11.03 KiB, done.
Total 11 (delta 9), reused 0 (delta 0)
To ssh://git.fedorahosted.org/git/389/ds.git
a68952f..305dac5 master -> master

Metadata Update from @mreynolds:
- Issue assigned to mreynolds
- Issue set to the milestone: 1.3.2 - 05/13 (May)

7 years ago

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Metadata Update from @spichugi:
- Issue close_status updated to: wontfix (was: Fixed)

3 years ago

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