Thanks, Timo.  Nope, still an infinite loop.  Anything I can try using gdb to 
trace?


On Nov 22, 2012, at 10:52 PM, Timo Sirainen <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10.11.2012, at 12.44, Erik A Johnson wrote:
> 
>> imap-login processes are hanging (using 100% of CPU) when connected from a 
>> client that is partially blocked by a firewall.  It appears that imap-login 
>> is stuck in a loop trying to complete an ssl handshake.  imap-login is 
>> working fine for other clients not blocked by the firewall (including 
>> localhost).
>> 
>> This is dovecot 2.1.10 under Mac OS X 10.8.2 (compiled from sources); the 
>> firewall is Little Snitch 3.0.1 blocking port 993, which appears to let the 
>> connection initiate but then squashes and disconnects the socket during ssl 
>> handshaking.
>> 
>> gdb backtrace and Activity Monitor's "Sample Process" show that imap-login 
>> is stuck calling ioloop-kqueue's io_loop_handler_run -> io_loop_call_io -> 
>> ssl_step repeatedly; dtruss shows that it is repeatedly making system calls 
>> to kevent and read, the latter returning -1 with errno 57=ENOTCONN="Socket 
>> is not connected".  (I also tried ./configure --with-ioloop=poll and 
>> --with-iopoll=select instead of the default best = kqueue but the results 
>> were the same; --with-iopoll=epoll didn't work because epoll is not 
>> available on this machine.)  The client, initiated by the command "openssl 
>> s_client -connect SERVER:993", first responds "CONNECTED(00000003)" but then 
>> immediately the error "60278:error:140790E5:SSL routines:SSL23_WRITE:ssl 
>> handshake 
>> failure:/SourceCache/OpenSSL098/OpenSSL098-44/src/ssl/s23_lib.c:182:".  The 
>> infinite loop is in src/lib/ioloop.c in the function "io_loop_run" where the 
>> statement "while (ioloop->running) io_loop_handler_run(ioloop)" is executed.
> 
> I wonder if this fixes it? http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/e95479f439aa
> 

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