[erlang-questions] SSL process leak after alert?

[Roger Lipscombe]

Hmm, it does look suspiciously related. I'll try to backport it to our
current version (19.3.6.4) and see if it resolves the problem.

On 18 February 2018 at 16:12, Ingela Andin <ingela@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Have you seen PR-1709 this merged to master? Would it solve your problmem?
>
> Regards Ingela Erlang OTP-team
> lör 17 feb. 2018 kl. 12:25 skrev Roger Lipscombe <roger@REDACTED>:
>>
>> On 16 February 2018 at 15:03, Roger Lipscombe <roger@REDACTED>
>> wrote:
>> > (re-submitting this now I've got the underlying cause)
>> >
>> > Per
>> > http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2018-February/094933.html:
>> >
>> > I'm using a gen_server with {active, once} handling, with ranch_ssl
>> > (though I don't think ranch is part of the problem), and it's leaking
>> > connection processes. I'm never seeing the 'ssl_closed' message.
>> >
>> > My code looks like this:
>> >
>> > 1. ranch calls my_protocol:start_link.
>> > 2. my_protocol:start_link calls proc_lib:spawn_link.
>> > 3. my_protocol:init calls ranch:accept_ack. This returns 'ok'.
>> > 4. my_protocol:init calls Transport:setopts(Socket, [{active, once}]).
>> > 5. my_protocol:init calls gen_server:enter_loop.
>>
>> It's essentially the same as
>>
>> https://github.com/ninenines/ranch/blob/master/examples/tcp_reverse/src/reverse_protocol.erl,
>> but with the SSL transport and a slightly more complicated protocol
>> than "echo" :)
>>
>> > I see some packets sent from the client in Wireshark, and then an SSL
>> > alert.
>>
>> I should note that the "client" is an IoT device with flaky ...
>> something. Could be Wifi, RAM, something else. It could be a dodgy
>> router between it and us, for example. It's one of N identical devices
>> (where N is a large but confidential number), all the rest of which
>> are working fine. It's just that this one -- which I have no access
>> to, just an IP address -- is causing this process leak on my server.
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