orphan check cron script can brick itself
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<h3 id="summary-problem-motivation">Problem/Motivation</h3>
<p>When checking for orphans, cron is DB querying for users with UID > <em>'ldap_user_cron_last_uid_checked'</em> and limiting number of results by <em>$ldap_user_conf->orphanedCheckQty</em>.<br>
Further down in code, it sets <em>'ldap_user_cron_last_uid_checked'</em> to highest UID in query result or to 1 if there are less results than amount that should be checked (we rolled over last UID, makes sense) like this:</p>
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<pre><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br></span><span style="color: #007700">if (</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$user_count </span><span style="color: #007700">< </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$ldap_user_conf</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">orphanedCheckQty</span><span style="color: #007700">) {<br> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">variable_set</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'ldap_user_cron_last_uid_checked'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">1</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br>} else {<br> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">variable_set</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'ldap_user_cron_last_uid_checked'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$uids</span><span style="color: #007700">[</span><span style="color: #0000BB">count</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$uids</span><span style="color: #007700">) - </span><span style="color: #0000BB">1</span><span style="color: #007700">]);<br>}<br></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span></span></pre></div>
<p>Problem is, that between DB query and setting of new <em>'ldap_user_cron_last_uid_checked'</em> value is this:</p>
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<pre><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br></span><span style="color: #007700">if (!(isset(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$result</span><span style="color: #007700">[</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'user'</span><span style="color: #007700">]) && </span><span style="color: #0000BB">count</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$result</span><span style="color: #007700">[</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'user'</span><span style="color: #007700">]) > </span><span style="color: #0000BB">0</span><span style="color: #007700">)) {<br> return </span><span style="color: #0000BB">TRUE</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br>}<br></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span></span></pre></div>
<p><strong>If DB query returns empty result, cron ends without setting new <em>'ldap_user_cron_last_uid_checked'</em> value.<br>
And query can return empty result, when <em>'ldap_user_cron_last_uid_checked'</em> == highest drupal UID.</strong></p>
<p>That means whenever (when stars align right) last user checked in batch is last user in drupal, this script bricks itself (further queries return empty result and cron script ends) until new user is created.</p>
<h4 id="summary-steps-reproduce">Steps to reproduce</h4>
<p>Set <em>$ldap_user_conf->orphanedCheckQty</em> (admin/config/people/ldap/user "Number of users to check each cron run.") to 1 and run cron repeatedly until it reaches last user. It no longer gets past:</p>
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<pre><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br></span><span style="color: #007700">if (!(isset(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$result</span><span style="color: #007700">[</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'user'</span><span style="color: #007700">]) && </span><span style="color: #0000BB">count</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$result</span><span style="color: #007700">[</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'user'</span><span style="color: #007700">]) > </span><span style="color: #0000BB">0</span><span style="color: #007700">)) {<br> return </span><span style="color: #0000BB">TRUE</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br>}<br></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span></span></pre></div>
<p>on future runs.</p>
<h3 id="summary-proposed-resolution">Proposed resolution</h3>
<p>Adding single line inside problematic condition:</p>
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<pre><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br></span><span style="color: #007700">if (!(isset(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$result</span><span style="color: #007700">[</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'user'</span><span style="color: #007700">]) && </span><span style="color: #0000BB">count</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$result</span><span style="color: #007700">[</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'user'</span><span style="color: #007700">]) > </span><span style="color: #0000BB">0</span><span style="color: #007700">)) {<br> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">variable_set</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'ldap_user_cron_last_uid_checked'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">1</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br> return </span><span style="color: #0000BB">TRUE</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br>}<br></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span></span></pre></div>
<p>That means when we have nothing to process, start over next time. Should be no problem with that because we have nothing to process past nothing anyway.</p>
<p>I will provide patch soon.</p>
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