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bug #51105: The script ganglia_ipmi_sensors.pl can break your entire Ganglia with buggy IPMI servers

Submitter:  Josef Ridky <jridky>
Submitted:  Wed 24 May 2017 09:55:58 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Improper Behaviour
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Open
Operating System:  GNU/Linux
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Wed 24 May 2017 06:40:41 PM UTC, comment #1: 

In principle a good idea.  Although I think it should output something to warn the user.

    if ($id_string =~ /[\x00-\x1F]/) {
print "something error message"
        next;
    }

Another alternate idea.  Perhaps the junk characters could be converted into something readable?  Just spaces?  This would be great if the junk characters are at the end of the string (i.e. vendor didn't NUL terminate whatever they stuck in the firmware).

 Albert Chu <chu11>
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Wed 24 May 2017 09:55:58 AM UTC, original submission:  

Description of problem:

On some buggy servers is possible to get IPMI sensors with non-printable characters in the name. If you use the script ganglia_ipmi_sensors.pl to send the sensor data to Ganglia, the script sends these sensors breaking the whole Ganglia installation, because gmetad can not parse the output from gmond, due to these invalid characters

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. You need a server that reports invalid characters in sensor names
2. Send the data to Ganglia with ganglia_ipmi_sensors.pl
3. Ganglia will stop reporting data.

For more info, visit https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049630

 Josef Ridky <jridky>

 

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file #40777:  ganglia_ipmi_sensors.patch added by jridky (496B - text/x-patch - proposed patch)

 

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