SSL_read() returning SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL with errno 11EAGAIN

Viktor Dukhovni openssl-users at dukhovni.org
Tue Apr 30 22:37:04 UTC 2019


On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 03:23:23PM -0700, Erik Forsberg wrote:

> >Is the handshake explicit, or does the application just call
> >SSL_read(), with OpenSSL performing the handshake as needed?
> 
> I occasionally (somewhat rarely) see the issue mentioned by the OP.
> Ignoring the error, or mapping it and do what WANT_READ/WANT_WRITE
> does effectively hides the issue and connection works fine. I predominantly
> run on Solaris 11. In my case, I open the socket myself, set non-blocking
> mode and associates with an SSL object using SS_set_fd().
> The initial handshake is done explicitly.

Recoverable errors should not result in SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL.  This
feels like a bug.  I'd like to hear from Matt Caswell on this one.
Perhaps someone should open an issue on Github...

-- 
	Viktor.


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