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Re: crash in serf credential callback

From: Lieven Govaerts <lgo_at_apache.org>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 00:17:36 +0100

Update:

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Lieven Govaerts <lgo_at_apache.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Stefan Kueng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> There's a crash happening in libsvn_ra_serf\util.c in the function
>> svn_ra_serf__credentials_callback. There's a full crash dump available from
>> here:
>> https://www.crash-server.com/Problem.aspx?ClientID=tsvn&ProblemID=58311
>>
>> From what I can figure out from that crash dump is that the 'session' baton
>> is not set (it's NULL), which leads to a segfault in the line:
>>
>> *username = apr_pstrdup(pool, session->proxy_username);
>>
>> The http return code is 407.
>>
>> But I can't figure out if this is a problem in serf or the svn library.
>> Maybe one of you guys can have a look at this?
>
> I'm looking into this report but haven't reached a conclusion yet. The
> dump doesn't contain a correct value for each function parameters and
> local variables, so debugging isn't easy.
>
> The user is trying to connect over a http proxy to a https server; The
> proxy requests username & password (Basic authn scheme). I see that
> the baton passed to svn_ra_serf__credentials_callback isn't NULL, but
> is a pointer to the ssl tunnel bucket context.
>
> This points me to serf__provide_credentials.
>
> Normally that function should setup the next request - the one
> provided by the application that lead to the setup of the ssl tunnel -
> so that the response_handler from that request can be passed to the
> credentials callback.
>
> That mechanism must have failed. I see that the first request is
> indeed a ssltunnel request, but the conn->state is SERF_CONN_INIT
> instead of SERF_CONN_SETUP_SSLTUNNEL. This explains why the mechanism
> to find and setup the first application request isn't triggered.
>
> The remaining question is how the connection can be in SERF_CONN_INIT
> state while handling authentication of the response to the CONNECT
> request. The only place where the connection state is reset is in
> reset_connection, but I haven't found a scenario yet where that
> function is called before an outstanding response on that connection
> is handled.

I see that the connection queue contains 3 requests:
1) a ssltunnel+priority request, handler_baton points to the ssltunnel context
2) a normal request, handler baton also points to the ssltunnel context
3) a normal request, handler_baton points to the svn_ra_serf

That second request shouldn't be there. This is a requeued CONNECT
request but without the ssltunnel flag set.

I'm quite confident that the problem is the handling of a cancelled
CONNECT request in ssltunnel.c/handle_response(). Besides the fact
that it requeues a CONNECT request as normal request, ssltunnel
requests should not be requeued in case of closed/reset connections,
because a new CONNECT request will be created when opening the new
socket.

Unfortunately I can't imagine a scenario which triggers this code path
(I've tried some), so I can't write a test case to simulate it.

To be continued.

Lieven

>
>>
>> Stefan
>>
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Received on 2014-03-02 00:18:30 CET

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