Bug 196134
| Summary: | telnet hangs due to infinite loop condition | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | blossom <blossom> |
| Component: | telnet | Assignee: | Adam Tkac <atkac> |
| Status: | CLOSED CANTFIX | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | ovasik |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2007-09-03 08:38:06 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 274991 | ||
RHEL 3 is in maintenance stage now so only security bugs are fixed. Moving to Fedora development (bug #274991) Adam |
Description of problem: Two telnet client sessions try to contact same server at the same time. One of the client will go into a loop consuming large amounts of CPU time. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): telnet-0.17-26 How reproducible: It is difficult to reproduce. But the code indicates potential bug Steps to Reproduce: netkit-telnet-0.17/telnet/sys_bsd.c in TerminalNewMode() ----- if (old < 0 || old > 1) { #ifdef USE_TERMIO tcgetattr(tin, &tmp_tc); #endif /* USE_TERMIO */ do { /* * Wait for data to drain, then flush again. */ #ifdef USE_TERMIO tcsetattr(tin, TCSADRAIN, &tmp_tc); #endif /* USE_TERMIO */ old = ttyflush(SYNCHing|flushout); } while (old < 0 || old > 1); } --------- If there is a problem due to nospace, or interruption inside loop. Telnet process hangs with large CPU consmption. Actual results: Telnet client process hangs and consumes large CPU. Expected results: non working telnet process should come out and should not consume CPU Additional info: The code change that would alleviate the problem is in the first code segment - the do loop in TerminalNewMode() should be changed to continue only for certain errors - new code: do { /* * Wait for data to drain, then flush again. */ #ifdef USE_TERMIO tcsetattr(tin, TCSADRAIN, &tmp_tc); #endif /* USE_TERMIO */ old = ttyflush(SYNCHing|flushout); if (old < 0) { if (! ( (errno == EINTR) || (errno == EAGAIN) || (errno == ENOSPC))) { break; } } } while (old < 0 || old > 1);