The rml/oob was not doing sanity checks on the input peer
parameter for the orte_rml_oob_send_nb and orte_rml_oob_send_buffer_nd.
Owing to the fact that there are places in the ompi/orte stack
where things like orte_show_help_norender are called way before
ORTE_PROC_MY_HNP, are setup properly, all kinds of weird
startup failures can occur as the rml/oob tries to process send
requests where the peer is junk.
Rather than try to expand this kind of thing:
/* if we are the HNP, or the RML has not yet been setup,
* or ROUTED has not been setup,
* or we weren't given an HNP, or we are running in standalone
* mode, then all we can do is process this locally
*/
if (ORTE_PROC_IS_HNP || orte_standalone_operation ||
NULL == orte_rml.send_buffer_nb ||
NULL == orte_routed.get_route ||
NULL == orte_process_info.my_hnp_uri) {
rc = show_help(filename, topic, output, ORTE_PROC_MY_NAME);
}
do the right thing in the rml level and return an error rather than
eventually failing in the send owing to peer not being valid.
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