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On Mar 22 12:03, Corinna Vinschen via RT wrote:
> On Mar 17 09:11, Corinna Vinschen via RT wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > the below patch is against current CVS HEAD, but it should be applied
> > to all supported branches of OpenSSL, starting with 0.9.8.
> > 
> > On systems running on the Windows platform, there's a DllMain function
> > in crypto/cryptlib.c which always calls ERR_remove_state(0) if an
> > application thread exits.  While this may be ok for native Windows
> > applications, it's wrong for applications running under Cygwin, given
> > that Cygwin is a POSIX environment.
> > 
> > Not only that compliant applications are written so that they call
> > ERR_remove_state by themselves right before exiting from a thread, the
> > gratuitous ERR_remove_state call in DllMain also potentially crashes
> > threaded applications.
> > 
> > For examples see http://bugs.python.org/issue3947 and
> > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-11/msg00341.html
> > 
> > The latest openssl package in the Cygwin net distribution also has this
> > patch applied.
> 
> Here's the patch against latest CVS.  However, it would be nice if it
> could be applied in the 0.9.8 branch as well.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Corinna
> 
> 
> Index: crypto/cryptlib.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/cvs/cvsroot/src/openssl/crypto/cryptlib.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.87
> diff -u -p -r1.87 cryptlib.c
> --- crypto/cryptlib.c 3 Feb 2011 23:12:01 -0000       1.87
> +++ crypto/cryptlib.c 22 Mar 2011 11:02:45 -0000
> @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ BOOL WINAPI DllMain(HINSTANCE hinstDLL, 
>       case DLL_THREAD_ATTACH:
>               break;
>       case DLL_THREAD_DETACH:
> -#ifndef OPENSSL_FIPS
> +#if !defined(OPENSSL_FIPS) && !defined(__CYGWIN__)
>               ERR_remove_state(0);
>  #endif
>               break;
> 
> 
> -- 
> Corinna Vinschen
> Cygwin Project Co-Leader
> Red Hat
> 
> 
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