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Re: flaky test 3001 in 7.74.0

From: James Brown via curl-library <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 14:02:52 -0800

FWIW this fails in the same way with the latest stunnel (5.57) and the
latest ABI-compatible openssl (1.0.2u).

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 3:20 PM Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Dec 2020, James Brown via curl-library wrote:
>
> > This is kind of a longshot, but I've been building curl 7.74 and I
> notice
> > that test 3001 keeps flaking on me. It always passes in isolation, but
> fails
> > about half the time when running the whole suite. No test other than
> 3001
> > has failed for me.
> >
> > Has anyone else noticed it being flaky?
>
> I have not. I run it locally fairly frequently and it runs in the CI jobs
> all
> the time on several platforms but I've not seen it behave oddly there
> either.
>
> > I attached the output from a failed run (with a little context showing
> > test3000 above passing and all subsequent tests passing); nothing in it
> > jumped out at me.
> >
> > I would also totally believe that this is somehow an artifact of the
> version
> > of stunnel I'm using or something else like that.
>
> I didn't spot anything unusual either.
>
> For those who want to skip browsing the log, the failure is visible like
> this
> in the trace-file:
>
> 01:59:52.728862 == Info: SSL certificate verify ok.
> 01:59:52.745751 => Send SSL data, 5 bytes (0x5)
> 0000: ....k
> 01:59:52.750842 == Info: OpenSSL SSL_write: Connection reset by peer,
> errno
> 104
> 01:59:52.752324 == Info: Failed sending HTTP request
> 01:59:52.763461 == Info: Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
>
> ... which thus appears to be curl failing to send the HTTP request
> immediately
> after the TLS handshake has completed.
>
> errno 104 is ECONNRESET for "Connection reset by peer". The server reset
> the
> connection unexpectedly.
>
> You are using a fairly old OpenSSL version (1.0.1e is from 2013), I don't
> think we can rule out that there might be a problem there, but I also
> can't
> say for sure that there is.
>
> Since you can't easily reproduce it stand-alone, the better way to start
> getting more details might be to add fprintf() (or infof()) statements to
> relevant functions. Possibly increase the log level of stunnel and see if
> you
> can make that tell what it does to the connection and why.
>
> --
>
> / daniel.haxx.se
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-- 
James Brown
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