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ntp package

  1. Bug #1567540
  2. Comment #74

Comment 74 for bug 1567540

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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote :

TL;DR

The NTP Code around this is simplified:
1. Complex thing eventually setting ret to next element
2. assert ret!=NULL <-- this is what our bug reports hit

"Complex thing" was completely rewritten in the referred patch set to close the race window that it had.

So no matter these NTP bugs refer to slightly other ways of this issue to surface it is very likely the same "race".