On 15 Sep 2016, at 14:53, Short, Todd <tsh...@akamai.com> wrote: > We’ve discovered a bug in the libcurl documentation. The issue revolves > around curl_global_cleanup() that ends up calling > CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data(). This OpenSSL function is meant to be called > only once, at program termination, as it cleans up data that leaves users of > ex_data in an inconsistent state. (tl;dr: ex_data index values are basically > reset, but are still held by application). > > At https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl.html referring to > curl_global_init() and curl_global_cleanup(): > > “You can call both of these multiple times, as long as all calls meet these > requirements and the number of calls to each is the same.” > > This statement is wrong, as curl_global_cleanup() cannot be called multiple > times due to CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data().
Perhaps I am missing something here, but the curl_global_* functions maintain a counter so if the calls are nested, e.g. curl_global_init / curl_global_init / curl_global_cleanup / curl_global_cleanup, then only the last call to curl_global_cleanup() actually calls CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data(). So all is well, no? Or are you thinking of a scenario like curl_global_init / curl_global_cleanup ... curl_global_init / curl_global_cleanup in which curl gets torn down and later re-inited? And you're saying that Curl_ossl_init() (called by curl_global_init()) does not and/or cannot sufficiently reinitialise this data? John -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html