[New-bugs-announce] [issue30437] SSL_shutdown can return meaningless SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL

[Nathaniel Smith]

New submission from Nathaniel Smith:

The SSL_shutdown man page says that if it returns 0, and an SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL is set, then SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL should be ignored - or at least I think that's what it's trying to say. See the RETURN VALUES section. I think this means we should only raise this error if the return value is <0? Though I suppose we need to clear out the error queue in any case.

I ended up changing the code that was triggering this for other reasons and now I'm not hitting it, so it's not exactly urgent for me, but FYI... I was getting SSLSyscallError exceptions from code using memory BIOs and where everything was fine. The test case had one task continually sending data into an SSLObject-based stream while the other end called SSLObject.unwrap() and then ended up continually getting SSLWantRead and reading more data -- after a few cycles of reading it got SSLSyscalError instead.

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assignee: christian.heimes
components: SSL
messages: 294216
nosy: alex, christian.heimes, dstufft, janssen, njs
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: SSL_shutdown can return meaningless SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.6, Python 3.7

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