Message 195781 - Python tracker

Message195781

Author	neologix
Recipients	barry, benjamin.peterson, christian.heimes, georg.brandl, neologix, pitrou, python-dev, sbt, vstinner
Date	2013-08-21.12:08:26
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> Christian Heimes added the comment: > > I have taken care of Antoine's and Victor's reviews. The fix has landed in Python 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4. What about 2.6, 3.1 and 3.2? After all it's a security fix (although I don't consider its severity as high). There's still the #if 0 in the patch you committed. And basically, because PySSL_RAND_atfork_child() is not async-signal safe, the interpreter is now subject to random deadlocks/crash in multi-threaded processes. I personally don't consider this a security fix...

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> Christian Heimes added the comment:
>
> I have taken care of Antoine's and Victor's reviews. The fix has landed in Python 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4. What about 2.6, 3.1 and 3.2? After all it's a security fix (although I don't consider its severity as high).

There's still the #if 0 in the patch you committed.

And basically, because PySSL_RAND_atfork_child() is not async-signal
safe, the interpreter is now subject to random deadlocks/crash in
multi-threaded processes. I personally don't consider this a security
fix...

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Date	User	Action	Args
2013-08-21 12:08:26	neologix	set	recipients: + neologix, barry, georg.brandl, pitrou, vstinner, christian.heimes, benjamin.peterson, python-dev, sbt
2013-08-21 12:08:26	neologix	link	issue18747 messages
2013-08-21 12:08:26	neologix	create