Full_Name: Arthur de Jong Version: 2.4.23 OS: Debian/unstable URL: Submission from: (NULL) (2001:888:1613:0:218:8bff:fe55:2c9f) When a network connection to the LDAP server fails (is severed with iptables in my set-up) the error is detected properly with ldap_result() (LDAP_OPT_TIMELIMIT, LDAP_OPT_TIMEOUT and LDAP_OPT_NETWORK_TIMEOUT options are set), however closing the connection with ldap_unbind() hangs indefinitely on a read() operation (determined by strace) when using a ldaps:// connection. If the connection is opened without TLS ldap_unbind() only writes some data on the connection and then closes it but with TLS it expects some response back. Since read() is used this blocks. This is a backtrace of the thread that was hanging: #0 0xb7fe2424 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb7f5809b in read () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:82 #2 0xb7e021bb in sb_stream_read (sbiod=0x8064630, buf=0x8083038, len=5) at /build/buildd-openldap_2.4.23-6-i386-fyqRGs/openldap-2.4.23/libraries/liblber/sockbuf.c:493 #3 0xb7e0132a in sb_debug_read (sbiod=0x807e250, buf=0x8083038, len=5) at /build/buildd-openldap_2.4.23-6-i386-fyqRGs/openldap-2.4.23/libraries/liblber/sockbuf.c:827 #4 0xb7fa0d27 in tlsg_recv (ptr=0x806fb50, buf=0x8083038, len=4294966784) at tls_g.c:904 #5 0xb7c65aa2 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.26 #6 0xb7c65f77 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.26 #7 0xb7c611e7 in _gnutls_recv_int () from /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.26 #8 0xb7c626b8 in gnutls_bye () from /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.26 #9 0xb7fa0dc4 in tlsg_sb_close (sbiod=0x807e268) at tls_g.c:970 #10 0xb7e01831 in ber_int_sb_close (sb=0x80645a8) at /build/buildd-openldap_2.4.23-6-i386-fyqRGs/openldap-2.4.23/libraries/liblber/sockbuf.c:383 #11 0xb7f8d1a0 in ldap_free_connection (ld=0x8066418, lc=0x8065b60, force=1, unbind=1) at request.c:768 #12 0xb7f83060 in ldap_ld_free (ld=0x8066418, close=1, sctrls=0x0, cctrls=0x0) at unbind.c:93 #13 0xb7f83326 in ldap_unbind_ext (ld=0x8066418, sctrls=0x0, cctrls=0x0) at unbind.c:52 #14 0xb7f8343f in ldap_unbind (ld=0x8066418) at unbind.c:69 #15 0x0804cfc0 in ?? () #16 0x0804e750 in ?? () #17 0x08057a9f in ?? () #18 0x0804bb8d in ?? () #19 0xb7f50955 in start_thread (arg=0xb7b92b70) at pthread_create.c:300 #20 0xb7ed0e7e in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/clone.S:130 More background information is available at [0]. As a workaround [1] I've used LDAP_OPT_DESC to get the file descriptor for the connection and used setsockopt(SO_RCVTIMEO) and setsockopt(SO_SNDTIMEO) on it. This fixes the problem for me at least but I'm not 100% this has no unwanted side-effects. [0] http://bugs.debian.org/596983 [1] http://arthurdejong.org/viewvc/nss-pam-ldapd?view=rev&revision=1264