From 00994f78b1ff7fcd9481a3fd1559f1a77157adbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Palfrader Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:58:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] There is a deadlock situation when ud-mailgate gets a mail claiming to be from itself: - ud-mailgate opens and locks the replay cache - verification of the mail fails for whatever reason - a reply is sent (to itself) - exim tries to deliver the mail by directly calling ud-mailgate - ud-mailgate tries to acquire the lock -> deadlock Fix this by changing when we open the replay cache, and unlock it as soon as we are done. --- debian/changelog | 14 ++++++++++++++ ud-mailgate | 18 ++++++++++-------- 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index d444941..5430cfc 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,17 @@ +userdir-ldap (0.3.56) unstable; urgency=low + + * There is a deadlock situation when ud-mailgate gets a mail claiming + to be from itself: + - ud-mailgate opens and locks the replay cache + - verification of the mail fails for whatever reason + - a reply is sent (to itself) + - exim tries to deliver the mail by directly calling ud-mailgate + - ud-mailgate tries to acquire the lock -> deadlock + Fix this by changing when we open the replay cache, and unlock it + as soon as we are done. + + -- Peter Palfrader Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:54:10 +0100 + userdir-ldap (0.3.55) unstable; urgency=low [ Joey Schulze ] diff --git a/ud-mailgate b/ud-mailgate index 1c9f998..a3a21a8 100755 --- a/ud-mailgate +++ b/ud-mailgate @@ -668,8 +668,6 @@ try: # Startup the replay cache ErrType = EX_TEMPFAIL; ErrMsg = "Failed to initialize the replay cache:"; - RC = ReplayCache(ReplayCacheFile); - RC.Clean(); # Get the email ErrType = EX_PERMFAIL; @@ -704,12 +702,6 @@ try: else: PlainText = Res[3]; - # Check the signature against the replay cache - ErrMsg = "The replay cache rejected your message. Check your clock!"; - Rply = RC.Check(Res[1]); - if Rply != None: - raise Error, Rply; - # Connect to the ldap server ErrType = EX_TEMPFAIL; ErrMsg = "An error occured while performing the LDAP lookup"; @@ -726,7 +718,17 @@ try: if len(Attrs) != 1: raise Error, "Oddly your key fingerprint is assigned to more than one account.." + + # Check the signature against the replay cache + RC = ReplayCache(ReplayCacheFile); + RC.Clean(); + ErrMsg = "The replay cache rejected your message. Check your clock!"; + Rply = RC.Check(Res[1]); + if Rply != None: + RC.close() + raise Error, Rply; RC.Add(Res[1]); + RC.close() # Determine the sender address ErrMsg = "A problem occured while trying to formulate the reply"; -- 2.20.1