Re: Strange hanging bug in a simple milter

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Vesa-Matti J Kari <vmkari(at)cc(dot)helsinki(dot)fi>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Strange hanging bug in a simple milter
Date: 2013-09-13 19:18:35
Message-ID: 20130913191835.GA1349870@alap2.anarazel.de
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On 2013-09-13 15:03:31 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Andres Freund (andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
> > It seems slightly cleaner to just move the pqsecure_destroy(); to the
> > end of that function, based on a boolean. But if you think otherwise, I
> > won't protest...
>
> Hmm, agreed; I had originally been concerned that the SIGPIPE madness
> needed to be around the pqsecure_destroy() call, but I can't see why
> that would be.
>
> I've run through a few times w/ the attached and haven't seen the
> deadlock. Will continue testing, of course.

That patch looks wrong to me. Note that the if (conn->ssl) branch resets
conn->ssl to NULL.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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