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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2019-07-30 17:03:57 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20190730170357-jte0piul5mq7j5pr
Server: Reap zombies created by multiprocessing.Process()

When creating checkers as multiprocessing.Process() objects, the
multiprocessing module also creates a parent process (for the
call_pipe() function) to call the actual checker process, but this
parent process is not reaped.  This is not a huge problem, since the
zombie is always reaped automatically the next time the multiprocess
starts a new process, but the zombies can be up to as many as there
have ever been simultaneous checker processes.  To fix this, the
process object must be join():ed when they report completion of the
child checker process.

* mandos (Client): Fix doc string to correctly state that
                   Client.checker is a multiprocess.Process() and not
                   a subprocess.Popen() object.
  (Client.checker_callback): After the returncode of the checker
                             process has been read, wait for the
                             self.checker Process object to finish by
                             calling join() on it.

Reported-by: Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>

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** Operating System
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   Debian 6.0 "squeeze" or Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" (or later).
 
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   Debian 8.0 "jessie" or Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" (or later).
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   This is mostly for the support scripts which make sure that the
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   client is installed and started in the initial RAM disk environment
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    "man -l mandos.8".
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*** Mandos Server
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    + GnuTLS 2.4          http://www.gnutls.org/
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      Note: GnuTLS 3 will only work with Python-GnuTLS 2
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    + Avahi 0.6.16        http://www.avahi.org/
 
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    + GnuTLS 3.3          https://www.gnutls.org/
 
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      (but not 3.6.0 or later, until 3.6.6, which works)
 
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    + Avahi 0.6.16        https://www.avahi.org/
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    + Python 2.7          https://www.python.org/
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    + Python-GnuTLS 1.1.5 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-gnutls/
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    + dbus-python 0.82.4  http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/
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    + PyGObject 2.14.2    https://developer.gnome.org/pygobject/
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    + pkg-config  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/
 
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    + dbus-python 0.82.4 https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/
 
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    + PyGObject 3.7.1     https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/PyGObject
 
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    + pkg-config https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/
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    + Urwid 1.0.1         http://urwid.org/
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      (Only needed by the "mandos-monitor" tool.)
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    + ssh-keyscan from OpenSSH http://www.openssh.com/
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    Package names:
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    python-gnutls avahi-daemon python python-avahi python-dbus
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    python-gobject python-urwid pkg-config fping ssh-client
 
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    avahi-daemon python python-dbus python-gi python-urwid pkg-config
 
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    fping ssh-client
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*** Mandos Client
 
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    + GNU C Library 2.17 https://gnu.org/software/libc/
 
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    + Avahi 0.6.16      https://www.avahi.org/
 
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    + GnuPG 1.4.9       https://www.gnupg.org/
 
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    + GPGME 1.1.6       https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/
 
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    + pkg-config https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/
 
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    + libnl-route 3     https://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/
 
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    + GLib 2.40         http://www.gtk.org/
 
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    + initramfs-tools 0.85i
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    + GnuTLS 2.4        http://www.gnutls.org/
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    + Avahi 0.6.16      http://www.avahi.org/
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    + pkg-config  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/
 
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    + dracut 044+241
 
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         http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut.html
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* Installing the Mandos server
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        # /usr/lib/mandos/plugins.d/mandos-client \
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                --pubkey=/etc/keys/mandos/pubkey.txt \
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                --seckey=/etc/keys/mandos/seckey.txt; echo
 
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                --seckey=/etc/keys/mandos/seckey.txt \
 
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     This command should retrieve the password from the server,
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     decrypt it, and output it to standard output.