DNS Forwarder broken in 2.4.4

[chudak]

After upgrading to 2.4.4 Services / DNS Forwarder seems broken:

Crash report begins. Anonymous machine information:

amd64Crash report begins. Anonymous machine information:

amd64
11.2-RELEASE-p3
FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p3 #17 e6b497fa0a3(RELENG_2_4_4): Thu Sep 20 09:04:45 EDT 2018 root@buildbot3:/crossbuild/ce-244/obj/amd64/WvDslnYb/crossbuild/ce-244/pfSense/tmp/FreeBSD-src/sys/pfSense

Crash report details:

PHP Errors:
[30-Sep-2018 08:17:01 America/Los_Angeles] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Cannot create references to/from string offsets in /usr/local/www/services_dnsmasq.php:96
Stack trace:
#0 {main}
thrown in /usr/local/www/services_dnsmasq.php on line 96
[30-Sep-2018 08:19:16 America/Los_Angeles] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Cannot create references to/from string offsets in /usr/local/www/services_dnsmasq.php:96
Stack trace:
#0 {main}
thrown in /usr/local/www/services_dnsmasq.php on line 96

No FreeBSD crash data found.
11.2-RELEASE-p3
FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p3 #17 e6b497fa0a3(RELENG_2_4_4): Thu Sep 20 09:04:45 EDT 2018 root@buildbot3:/crossbuild/ce-244/obj/amd64/WvDslnYb/crossbuild/ce-244/pfSense/tmp/FreeBSD-src/sys/pfSense

Crash report details:

PHP Errors:
[30-Sep-2018 08:17:01 America/Los_Angeles] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Cannot create references to/from string offsets in /usr/local/www/services_dnsmasq.php:96
Stack trace:
#0 {main}
thrown in /usr/local/www/services_dnsmasq.php on line 96
[30-Sep-2018 08:19:16 America/Los_Angeles] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Cannot create references to/from string offsets in /usr/local/www/services_dnsmasq.php:96
Stack trace:
#0 {main}
thrown in /usr/local/www/services_dnsmasq.php on line 96

No FreeBSD crash data found.

any clues how to fix it ?

[chudak]

Is on,y my DNS Forwarder broken in 2.4.4 ?

Can someone confirm the problem ?

[chudak]

answering to myself and for community benefits https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/8979

[Gertjan]

@chudak said in DNS Forwarder broken in 2.4.4:

any clues how to fix it ?

Add the two patches that you found here :https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/8967 ;)