Hi,
On 14.7.2016 14:36, Stanislav Laznicka wrote:
Hello,
This patch fixes https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/5640.
With not so much experience with the framework, it raises question in my
head whether ipaldap.get_entries is used properly throughout the system
- does it always assume that it gets ALL the requested entries or just a
few of those as configured by the 'ipaSearchRecordsLimit' attribute of
ipaConfig.etc which it actually gets?
That depends. If you call get_entries() on the ldap2 plugin (which is
usually the case in the framework), then ipaSearchRecordsLimit is used.
If you call it on some arbitrary LDAPClient instance, the hardcoded
default (= unlimited) is used.
One spot that I know the get_entries method was definitely not used
properly before this patch is in the
baseldap.LDAPObject.get_memberindirect() method:
692 result = self.backend.get_entries(
693 self.api.env.basedn,
694 filter=filter,
695 attrs_list=['member'],
696 size_limit=-1, # paged search will get everything
anyway
697 paged_search=True)
which to me seems kind of important if the environment size_limit is not
set properly :) The patch does not fix the non-propagation of the
paged_search, though.
Why do you think size_limit is not used properly here?
Anyway, this ticket is not really easily fixable without more profound
changes. Often, multiple LDAP searches are done during command
execution. What do you do with the size limit then? Do you pass the same
size limit to all the searches? Do you subtract the result size from the
size limit after each search? Do you do something else with it? ... The
answer is that it depends on the purpose of each individual LDAP search
(like in get_memberindirect() above, we have to do unlimited search,
otherwise the resulting entry would be incomplete), and fixing this
accross the whole framework is a non-trivial task.
Honza
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