Bug #52501 [NEW]: Misconfigured Sendmail sends PHP-FPM into an infinite loop

From: Operating system: DebianLenny2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64 PHP version: 5.3.3 Package: FPM related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:Misconfigured Sendmail sends PHP-FPM into an infinite loop Description: ------------ (Misconfigured) Sendmail sends PHP-FPM into an infinite loop of spawning/exiting worker processes when attempting to send an email through the mail() function. (The php script itself just times out without any output.) Since this loop produces 100% cpu load and warnings AND logs these warnings, the log file has grown to 400MB+ before I noticed the load spike and stopped PHP-FPM master process with kill -9 PID (nothing else worked e.g. -QUIT). After I purge-removed the Sendmail package and installed Postfix instead, everything is working as it should (I didn't made any changes to nginx/php-fpm/php config files whatsoever). Server: nginx-0.8.47 PHP ini settings related to mail: "sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i" Sendmail state: daemon was not running (sendmail process was called, it did it's work i.e. nothing, then exited) PHP configure: ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-fpm --disable-rpath --with-pear --disable-debug --with-openssl --with-pcre-regex --with-zlib --enable-bcmath --with-bz2 --enable-calendar --with-curl --enable-exif --enable-inline-optimization --with-gd --enable-gd-native-ttf --with-gettext --with-imap --with-imap-ssl --with-kerberos --with-ldap --enable-mbstring --enable-mbregex --with-mcrypt --with-mysql --with-mysqli --enable-pcntl --enable-pdo --with-pdo-firebird --with-pdo-mysql --with-pdo-pgsql --with-pgsql --enable-shmop --enable-soap --enable-sockets --enable-sqlite-utf8 --enable-sysvmsg --enable-sysvsem --enable-sysvshm --with-tidy --enable-wddx --with-xmlrpc --with-xsl --enable-zip --with-pic --enable-ftp --enable-dom --enable-xmlwriter --enable-xmlreader --enable-tokenizer --enable-simplexml --enable-session --enable-posix --enable-phar --enable-libxml --enable-json --with-iconv --enable-filter --enable-fileinfo --enable-dba --enable-ctype Dynamic extensions: pecl apc-beta (apc.so) and rar (rar.so). Changed PHP-FPM settings: listen = /var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock listen.owner = www-data listen.group = www-data user = www-data group = www-data pm = dynamic pm.max_children = 10 pm.start_servers = 4 pm.min_spare_servers = 3 pm.max_spare_servers = 6 request_terminate_timeout = 60 rlimit_files = 10240 chdir = /var/www catch_workers_output = yes Test script: --------------- $to = 'xyz@abc.com'; // subject $subject = 'Birthday Reminders for August'; // message $message = ' <html> <head> <title>Birthday Reminders for August</title> </head> <body> <p>Here are the birthdays upcoming in August!</p> <table> <tr> <th>Person</th><th>Day</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th> </tr> <tr> <td>Joe</td><td>3rd</td><td>August</td><td>1970</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sally</td><td>17th</td><td>August</td><td>1973</td> </tr> </table> </body> </html> '; // To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set $headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n"; $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8' . "\r\n"; // Additional headers $headers .= 'To: Dude Dudeson <xyz@abc.com>, Kelly <kelly@gals.com>' . "\r\n"; $headers .= 'From: Birthday Reminder <xyz@abc.com>' . "\r\n"; $headers .= 'Cc: topstalker@thehomeofallinternetpredators.com' . "\r\n"; // Mail it if (mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) echo "OKAY!!!!!"; Expected result: ---------------- OKAY!!!!! Actual result: -------------- php-fpm error log: ... Trying to run a mail script ... Jul 28 11:42:20.169022 [WARNING] [pool www] child 6344, script '/var/www/xyz.com/public/mail.php' execution timed out (60.095817 sec), terminating Jul 28 11:42:20.169719 [WARNING] [pool www] child 6344 exited on signal 15 SIGTERM after 1532.840955 seconds from start Jul 28 11:42:20.170087 [NOTICE] [pool www] child 6409 started Jul 28 11:42:20.170752 [WARNING] [pool www] child 6409 exited on signal 11 SIGSEGV after 0.000681 seconds from start Jul 28 11:42:20.171011 [NOTICE] [pool www] child 6410 started Jul 28 11:42:20.171602 [WARNING] [pool www] child 6410 exited on signal 11 SIGSEGV after 0.000605 seconds from start ... Gazillion lines ... I've noticed it's killing my cpus and tried to kill it ... ... Jul 28 12:01:45.644600 [NOTICE] [pool www] child 2017 started Jul 28 12:01:45.644615 [WARNING] [pool www] child 2011 exited on signal 6 SIGABRT after 0.002469 seconds from start Jul 28 12:01:45.644621 [WARNING] [pool www] child 2011 said into stderr: "php-fpm: event.c:261: event_base_free: Assertion `(((&base->eventqueue)->tqh_first) == ((void *)0))' failed." Jul 28 12:01:45.645047 [NOTICE] [pool www] child 2018 started Jul 28 12:01:45.645062 [WARNING] [pool www] child 2012 exited on signal 6 SIGABRT after 0.002622 seconds from start Jul 28 12:01:45.645071 [WARNING] [pool www] child 2012 said into stderr: "php-fpm: event.c:261: event_base_free: Assertion `(((&base->eventqueue)->tqh_first) == ((void *)0))' failed." Jul 28 12:01:45.646422 [NOTICE] [pool www] child 2021 started Jul 28 12:01:45.646438 [WARNING] [pool www] child 2013 exited on signal 6 SIGABRT after 0.003529 seconds from start Jul 28 12:01:45.646444 [WARNING] [pool www] child 2013 said into stderr: "php-fpm: event.c:261: event_base_free: Assertion `(((&base->eventqueue)->tqh_first) == ((void *)0))' failed." -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52501&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52501&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52501&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52501&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52501&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52501&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52501&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52501&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52501&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52501&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52501&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52501&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52501&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52501&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52501&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52501&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52501&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52501&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52501&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52501&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52501&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52501&r=mysqlcfg