Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] esx: Disable libcurl's use of signals to fix a segfault

libcurl uses a SIGALRM in combination with sigsetjmp/siglongjmp to be able to abort a DNS lookup when it takes too long. The problem with this in a multi-threaded application is that the signal handler for SIGALRM and the call to siglongjmp can be executed on a thread that is different from the one that initially did the SIGALRM setup and the call to sigsetjmp. In the reported case this triggered a segfault. Disable libcurl's use of signals to avoid this situation. This has the disadvantage of losing the ability to abort DNS lookups which might result in libcurl getting stuck in a DNS lookup in the worst case. Reported by Benjamin Wang. --- src/esx/esx_vi.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/esx/esx_vi.c b/src/esx/esx_vi.c index 275b858..125eaee 100644 --- a/src/esx/esx_vi.c +++ b/src/esx/esx_vi.c @@ -330,6 +330,7 @@ esxVI_CURL_Connect(esxVI_CURL *curl, esxUtil_ParsedUri *parsedUri) } curl_easy_setopt(curl->handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "libvirt-esx"); + curl_easy_setopt(curl->handle, CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL, 1); curl_easy_setopt(curl->handle, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_easy_setopt(curl->handle, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0); curl_easy_setopt(curl->handle, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER,