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[Benjamin Kaduk <1347147@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

In some conditions, propagating a kerberos database to a slave KDC server can stall.
This is due to a misoptimization by gcc 4.8 of the CIRCLEQ famliy of macros, apparently due to overzealous strict aliasing deductions.

One case of this stall is reported at
http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/kerberos/2014-July/020007.html (and the
rest of the thread), and there is an entry in the upstream bugtracker at
http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=7860 .

gcc 4.9 (as used in Debian unstable at present) is not believed to
induce this problem.  Upstream has patched their code to use the TAILQ
family of macros instead, as a workaround, but that workaround has not
yet appeared in an upstream release:
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/26d8744129

Because of the different compiler versions used on Debian and Ubuntu, I
am filing this as an Ubuntu-specific bug.

** Affects: krb5 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  krb5 database propagation enters infinite loop

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