46739 - cannot twice ask for PickleSecurityStatus

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core :: Security: PSM, defect, P3)

Description

[John G. Myers]

Logs of the PickleSecurityStatus operation show that the connection gets
dereferenced one time too many.

18:22:23.900] ctrl frontend 821c640: reading 4 more from socket.
[18:22:23.901] ctrl frontend 821c640: SSMControlConnection_ProcessMessage
called.
[18:22:23.901] ctrl frontend 821c640: Got a resource-related request.
[18:22:23.901] ctrl frontend 821c640: Got an PickleSecurityStatus request.
[18:22:23.901] ctrl frontend 821c640: Rsrc ID 11.
[18:22:23.901] ctrl frontend 821c640: Get ref - rsrcid: 11 ++refcnt: 3
[18:22:23.902] ctrl frontend 821c640: Free ref - rsrcid: 11 --refcnt: 2
[18:22:23.902] ctrl frontend 821c640: Free ref - rsrcid: 11 --refcnt: 1
[18:22:23.902] ctrl frontend 821c640: queueing reply: type 20003430, len 800.
[18:22:23.902] ctrl frontend 821c640: SendQMessage on 821cd68: prio 0, type
20003430, len 800
[18:22:23.903] ctrl write 821c640: RecvQMessage on 821cd68: type 20003430, len
800
[18:22:23.903] ctrl write 821c640: got message for client
(type=20003430,len=800).
[18:22:23.903] ctrl write 821c640: RecvQMessage on 821cd68: blocking read at
prio -1
[18:22:23.903] ctrl frontend 821c640: SSMControlConnection_ProcessMessage
returning rv == 0.

Comment 1

[Bob Lord]

Assigning to David Drinan.

Comment 2

[John G. Myers]

It appears the double dereference is deliberate.  We need a PSM protocol 
extension to allow a second query of the security status.  I have a client-side 
workaround, so the dependent bugs are no longer blocked.

Comment 3

[John G. Myers]

Workaround doesn't work, so this is still blocking 31982.

Comment 4

[John G. Myers]

Block, unblock, ...

Comment 5

[John G. Myers]

Withdrawing my nsbeta3 nomination.

Comment 6

[John Unruh]

Changing QA contact to nitinp

Comment 7

[John Unruh]

Mass reassigning nitinp's bugs to me.

Comment 8

[John G. Myers]

This bug is no longer relevant

Comment 9

[John Unruh]

Verified wontfix.