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Re: GNU TLS Hang after error
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Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos |
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Re: GNU TLS Hang after error |
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Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:37:33 +0200 |
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On 08/22/2011 12:33 PM, Alexander Brukhanov wrote:
> I'm using gnutls 2.12.8 with poll and pthreads on FreeBSD and Linux
> systems. Some times (when I have a long time between requests) I have
> gnutls hanged. Here is my backtrace:
[...]
Indeed it shouldn't hang there, but it shouldn't arrive there as well.
I suppose that do_device_source_urandom() failed in your system. This
is very strange. Could you pinpoint what exactly failed?
> As I understand it happens because wrap_nettle_rnd exits with error. You
> do not do RND_UNLOCK in case of error. But I have tried to unlock it. It
> cause libmicrohttpd to drop all incoming connections.
If the random generator fails, gnutls cannot operate. This is expected.
What wasn't expected is the failure you see.
regards,
Nikos