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gh-109534: fix reference leak when SSL handshake fails #114074

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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions Lib/asyncio/selector_events.py
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Expand Up @@ -235,6 +235,10 @@ async def _accept_connection2(
await waiter
except BaseException:
transport.close()
# gh-109534: When an exception is raised by the SSLProtocol object the
# exception set in this future can keep the protocol object alive and
# cause a reference cycle.
waiter = None
raise
# It's now up to the protocol to handle the connection.

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18 changes: 7 additions & 11 deletions Lib/asyncio/sslproto.py
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Expand Up @@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ def eof_received(self):
logger.debug("%r received EOF", self)

if self._state == SSLProtocolState.DO_HANDSHAKE:
self._on_handshake_complete(ConnectionResetError)
self._on_handshake_complete(ConnectionResetError())
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Hi @mjpieters; This fix caused the ssl-over-ssl test from GH-113214 (PR #113334) to fail and want to make sure I did not break anything on your end.

The test will raise ConnectionResetError (via SSLProtocol.eof_received) and normally this won't
be caught by the exception handler in SSLProtocol._fatal_error because it is of instance OSError. But because we no longer raise the exception in SSLProtocol._on_handshake_complete(exc), the exception object is never initialised and the isinstance doesn't work as intended. Changed SSLProtocol.eof_received to pass an exception object and not class to fix this.

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I'm not an expert in this area, but passing in an instance instead of the class looks fine by me. I did leave a comment on the removal of the try...except block however as this did more than just handle raise handshake_exc.


elif self._state == SSLProtocolState.WRAPPED:
self._set_state(SSLProtocolState.FLUSHING)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -571,21 +571,17 @@ def _on_handshake_complete(self, handshake_exc):
self._handshake_timeout_handle = None

sslobj = self._sslobj
try:
if handshake_exc is None:
self._set_state(SSLProtocolState.WRAPPED)
else:
raise handshake_exc

if handshake_exc is None:
self._set_state(SSLProtocolState.WRAPPED)
peercert = sslobj.getpeercert()
except Exception as exc:
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The exception handler here is intended to (also) catch exceptions raised by sslobj.getpeercert(). That is probably going to be an issue.

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In other words: you can't avoid using a try...except block here. Is removing this really necessary to break the cycle?

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Ah! This was my misunderstanding of the problem. It turns out that setting the original handshake_exc to None also fixed our problem -- which my understanding is that there are two separate instances of the exception, each with a traceback and only one was being handled.

try:
    if handshake_exc is None:
        self._set_state(SSLProtocolState.WRAPPED)
    else:
        raise handshake_exc

    peercert = sslobj.getpeercert()
except Exception as exc:
    handshake_exc = None    # <--- fixes the problem

else:
self._set_state(SSLProtocolState.UNWRAPPED)
if isinstance(exc, ssl.CertificateError):
if isinstance(handshake_exc, ssl.CertificateError):
msg = 'SSL handshake failed on verifying the certificate'
else:
msg = 'SSL handshake failed'
self._fatal_error(exc, msg)
self._wakeup_waiter(exc)
self._fatal_error(handshake_exc, msg)
self._wakeup_waiter(handshake_exc)
return

if self._loop.get_debug():
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@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
Fix a reference leak in
:class:`asyncio.selector_events.BaseSelectorEventLoop` when SSL handshakes
fail. Patch contributed by Jamie Phan.
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