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authorJay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com>2019-02-11 23:00:00 -0500
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2019-02-14 17:42:43 +0100
commit4015fae044ce52a639c9358e22a9e948f287c89f (patch)
tree572a573d8ddd5364e49f095fba47e204a5846ecd /docs/libcurl/curl_easy_recv.3
parent49d73d40f6118cbe10e60ff0351fad30bf4cde2b (diff)
connection_check: restore original conn->data after the check
- Save the original conn->data before it's changed to the specified data transfer for the connection check and then restore it afterwards. This is a follow-up to 38d8e1b 2019-02-11. History: It was discovered a month ago that before checking whether to extract a dead connection that that connection should be associated with a "live" transfer for the check (ie original conn->data ignored and set to the passed in data). A fix was landed in 54b201b which did that and also cleared conn->data after the check. The original conn->data was not restored, so presumably it was thought that a valid conn->data was no longer needed. Several days later it was discovered that a valid conn->data was needed after the check and follow-up fix was landed in bbae24c which partially reverted the original fix and attempted to limit the scope of when conn->data was changed to only when pruning dead connections. In that case conn->data was not cleared and the original conn->data not restored. A month later it was discovered that the original fix was somewhat correct; a "live" transfer is needed for the check in all cases because original conn->data could be null which could cause a bad deref at arbitrary points in the check. A fix was landed in 38d8e1b which expanded the scope to all cases. conn->data was not cleared and the original conn->data not restored. A day later it was discovered that not restoring the original conn->data may lead to busy loops in applications that use the event interface, and given this observation it's a pretty safe assumption that there is some code path that still needs the original conn->data. This commit is the follow-up fix for that, it restores the original conn->data after the connection check. Assisted-by: tholin@users.noreply.github.com Reported-by: tholin@users.noreply.github.com Fixes https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/3542 Closes #3559
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