#256: many writes, congested link -> LIBSSH2_ERROR_BAD_USE, stuck
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Reporter: ncm | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 1.4.3
Component: misc | Version: 1.4.2
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocks:
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Comment (by ncm):
During thorough testing, we have logged this
happening with keepalive packets, as seen in #254.
The attached patch fixes that too. It is needed
in addition to the patch proposed in #250 to fix
that failure completely.
I should explain the logic of the patch.
Control messages are treated a little differently
from payload messages. In either case, when a
short write has occurred, _transport_send can
only begin by sending what it can of the saved
ciphertext of the rest of the pending message,
before considering the current one.
If the pending text was from a control message,
libssh2 will be making no attempt to re-try it.
Still, part of it has already gone out, so the
rest must be handled now, whatever the current
message is for. After that, the current message
can be processed normally, possibly resulting in
another short write.
If the pending text was from a payload message,
things are a little trickier. If this call is for a
control message or for a different channel, we
must simply return _EAGAIN: if the pending text
were to drain successfully, then when the client
calls _write() later with the same payload (note
that it will have gotten _EAGAIN on the previous
try), that payload would be sent twice. If this
call is for the same payload, we can just try
again to drain it, and report the result.
-- Ticket URL: <https://trac.libssh2.org/ticket/256#comment:1> libssh2 <https://trac.libssh2.org/> C library for writing portable SSH2 clients _______________________________________________ libssh2-devel http://cool.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/libssh2-develReceived on 2013-02-05