From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:16:23 GMT
Subject: Re: segfault in git-remote-http
Message-ID: <20130409171623.GE21972@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20130409084718.587e99aa7a935296867a84a1@lavabit.com>

On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 08:47:18AM -0700, rh wrote:

> The symptoms that this patch addresses look similar:
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.postfix.user/217790
> 
> Quote from that thread:
> "This behavior is actually documented (SSL_set_fd() destroys
> a BIO already on the SSL handle, and creates a new BIO)."
> 
> Maybe someone used to looking at git-remote-http code can
> say anything about this.

git-remote-http does not touch the openssl code itself at all. We only
talk to curl, which handles all of the ssl (and may even be built on
gnutls). So if that is the problem, then I think it may be a libcurl
bug, not a git one.

-Peff