On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 08:44:32AM -0500, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 10:43 +0100, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:25:25PM -0500, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > > In our responders we have a feature that allows to avoid dispatching
> > > multiple identical requests at the same time.
> > > This is done by queing additional identical requests in a special hash
> > > table and then replying to all clients at the same time when a response
> > > is received.
> > > 
> > > When the connection to a provider breaks all these waiting requests need
> > > to be cleaned out and the has table emptied.
> > > 
> > > This was not happening in sssd_pam, so if a connection to the provider
> > > was lost client request would pile up and never be replied again.
> > > 
> > > The attached patch fixes this issue. Tested using kill -STOP of the
> > > sssd_be process and trying to authenticate via the gnome screensaver.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1655
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York
> > 
> > Ack. Nice catch, thank you. The other *_dp_reconnect_init functions are
> > fine.
> 
> Yes, I checked, but this is the third time we regress wrt this
> functionality, I am thinking I may add a new patch that marks requests
> with a timestamp and automatically expire those older than X.
> 
> It doesn't make sense to pile requests when they are very far one from
> the other, there is clearly an error if sssd_be hasn't answered in say 5
> minutes, and it is better to cancel the old one at that point and
> repeat.
> 
> Do you agree ?
> 
> Stephen you coded this feature originally IIRC, any objection ?
> 
> Anyway this would be a new ticket, I think we need to push this patch as
> is w/o waiting as it is a very bad bug.
> 
> Simo.

In general I agree, the client would be terminated with the idle timeout
anyway I think. 
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