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authorDavid Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>2020-09-01 09:54:48 -0400
committerDavid Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>2020-09-01 10:01:21 -0400
commitea339227c27c03d7ced9e526d9e945708f432b22 (patch)
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parent72484a4953d744754b3b6b025242ef668e3f017a (diff)
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conn: Remove assert on new listener connection when retrying
Opening a new listener connection can fail in many ways like a bind() permission denied on a low port for instance. And thus, we should expect to handle an error when creating a new one instead of assert() on it. To hit the removed assert: ORPort 80 KeepBindCapabilities 0 Start tor. Then edit torrc: ORPort <some-IP>:80 HUP tor and the assert is hit. Fixes #40073 Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
-rw-r--r--changes/ticket400733
-rw-r--r--src/core/mainloop/connection.c9
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/changes/ticket40073 b/changes/ticket40073
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..30b028c042
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/ticket40073
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+ o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash):
+ - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener connection for an
+ address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
diff --git a/src/core/mainloop/connection.c b/src/core/mainloop/connection.c
index 3595bba85c..dcd4ec492f 100644
--- a/src/core/mainloop/connection.c
+++ b/src/core/mainloop/connection.c
@@ -2923,7 +2923,14 @@ retry_all_listeners(smartlist_t *new_conns, int close_all_noncontrol)
&skip, &addr_in_use);
}
- tor_assert(new_conn);
+ /* There are many reasons why we can't open a new listener port so in case
+ * we hit those, bail early so tor can stop. */
+ if (!new_conn) {
+ log_warn(LD_NET, "Unable to create listener port: %s:%d",
+ fmt_addr(&r->new_port->addr), r->new_port->port);
+ retval = -1;
+ break;
+ }
smartlist_add(new_conns, new_conn);