• Bug#1104686: prosody-modules: undefined configmanager in mod_host_guard

    From Sergei Golovan@21:1/5 to All on Sun May 4 18:10:01 2025
    Package: prosody-modules
    Version: 0.0~hg20250402.f315edc39f3d+dfsg-1
    Severity: normal
    Tags: patch

    Dear Maintainer,

    After enabling the "host_guard" Prosody module, I've got the following
    error message in the log:

    May 04 10:32:32 runnerINRWevCWhLe6 error Encountered error: /usr/lib/prosody/modules/mod_host_guard/mod_host_guard.lua:64: attempt to index a nil value (upvalue 'config')
    stack traceback:
    /usr/lib/prosody/modules/mod_host_guard/mod_host_guard.lua:64: in upvalue 'handle_deactivation'
    /usr/lib/prosody/modules/mod_host_guard/mod_host_guard.lua:96: in upvalue 'init_hosts'
    /usr/lib/prosody/modules/mod_host_guard/mod_host_guard.lua:118: in field '?'
    /usr/lib/prosody/util/events.lua:81: in function </usr/lib/prosody/util/events.lua:77>
    (...tail calls...)
    /usr/lib/prosody/util/startup.lua:473: in field '?'
    /usr/lib/prosody/util/events.lua:81: in function </usr/lib/prosody/util/events.lua:77>
    (...tail calls...)
    /usr/lib/prosody/util/fsm.lua:25: in upvalue 'notify_transitioned'
    /usr/lib/prosody/util/fsm.lua:58: in method 'finish_startup'
    /usr/lib/prosody/util/startup.lua:539: in function 'prosody.util.startup.notify_started'
    /usr/lib/prosody/util/startup.lua:954: in function 'prosody.util.startup.prosody'
    /usr/lib/prosody/util/async.lua:161: in function 'prosody.util.async.default_runner_func'
    /usr/lib/prosody/util/async.lua:149: in function </usr/lib/prosody/util/async.lua:147>

    Appears that the configmanager variable used on line 14 of
    mod_host_guard.lua is undefined. The following patch fixes the bug:

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    --- a/mod_host_guard/mod_host_guard.lua
    +++ b/mod_host_guard/mod_host_guard.lua
    @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
    local guard_protect = module:get_option_set("host_guard_selective", {})
    local guard_block_bl = module:get_option_set("host_guard_blacklist", {})

    -local config = configmanager
    +local config = require "prosody.core.configmanager"
    local error_reply = require "util.stanza".error_reply
    local tostring = tostring

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: 12.10
    APT prefers stable-security
    APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable')
    Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
    Foreign Architectures: i386

    Kernel: Linux 6.12.9+bpo-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
    Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
    Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
    Shell: /
  • From Martin@21:1/5 to Sergei Golovan on Wed May 7 00:30:01 2025
    On 2025-05-04 19:04, Sergei Golovan wrote:
    Appears that the configmanager variable used on line 14 of
    mod_host_guard.lua is undefined. The following patch fixes the bug:
    ...
    -local config = configmanager
    +local config = require "prosody.core.configmanager"

    If that works for you, maybe you can just apply the patch and do a team
    upload? Thanks!

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  • From Sergei Golovan@21:1/5 to debacle@debian.org on Wed May 7 13:00:01 2025
    tag 1104686 + upstream
    forwarded 1104686 https://issues.prosody.im/1418
    thanks

    Hi Martin!

    On Wed, May 7, 2025 at 1:16 AM Martin <debacle@debian.org> wrote:

    On 2025-05-04 19:04, Sergei Golovan wrote:
    Appears that the configmanager variable used on line 14 of mod_host_guard.lua is undefined. The following patch fixes the bug:
    ...
    -local config = configmanager
    +local config = require "prosody.core.configmanager"

    If that works for you, maybe you can just apply the patch and do a team upload? Thanks!

    I'll happily do that. By the way, found the matching bugreport on issues.prosody.im
    dated by 2019 (see [1])...

    [1] https://issues.prosody.im/1418

    Cheers!
    --
    Sergei Golovan

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