Re: OpenSSL version 3.0.0-alpha1 published

[Matt Caswell]

On 24/04/2020 13:15, Yann Ylavic wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 1:26 PM Yann Ylavic <ylavic....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> - Custom input BIO_METHOD (using httpd filters' stack) asserted its
>> _ctrl() was never called, so far..
>> The new BIO_eof() calls in codebase, notably from ssl3_read_n(),
>> breaks this assertion.
>> Handling the case for BIO_CTRL_EOF made it, dunno if others may be
>> bitten by that.
> 
> BTW, what is a BIO supposed to do on BIO_CTRL_EOF request when there
> is no pending data, some kind of speculative read to check whether the
> connection is still up or returning zero lazily is fine?

I'd say returning 0 lazily is fine.

Matt