Re: OpenSSL Applink

On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 02:37:44PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 09:01:16PM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > "Dave Page" <dpage@postgresql.org> writes:
> > >>> From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> > >>> ... It's not entirely clear whether BIO_new_fp() would avoid the
> > >>> problematic calls, but it doesn't look like it'd be hard to try.
> > >
> > >> The last version of the patch I posted uses BIO_new_file() in all cases, and (from memory) BIO_get_fp() in the
non-win32case to get a FILE* to pass to fstat. 
> > >
> > > Did you manage to get rid of the bogus-error-message problem that
> > > afflicted the first version of the patch?  If so, this way is fine.
> >
> > No, thats still an issue.
>
> A guess on this - probably the BIO stuff overwrites some internal OpenSSL
> "errno" value, causing the wrong error to be passed up. Most likely, it's
> not save to call BIO functions from inside the callback. My bet is that
> it'll actually break without this patch, if you stick something that's
> invalid in there. It's just taht we picked up the "does not exist" error
> without calling BIO functions.
>
> A quick peek at the OpenSSL sources seems to confirm this.
>
> I think we want to either attempt to load the client certificate before we
> connect (and before it's requested) and just queue up the error to show it
> in only if it's requested, or we want to try some magic around
> ERR_set_mark()/ERR_pop_to_mark() to clear out any BIO errors before we hand
> control back.
>
> I'll see if I can put together a poc patch - need to reproduce the problem
> first :-)

Just a quick followup - this is also reproducible on Unix:

mha@builder:~/inst-pg/head/bin$ PGSSLMODE=require ./psql -h localhost
postgres
psql: SSL SYSCALL error: Resource temporarily unavailable


//Magnus