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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:36:44 +0530
From: Dhiru Kholia <dhiru.kholia@...il.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: SSH thread-safety
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 5:16 AM, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
> Dhiru, magnum, all -
>
> It was reported to me off-list that the "SSH" format in 1.7.9-jumbo-5
> crashes on self-test on a 64-way machine running RHEL 6.2 on x86-64.
>
> I managed to reproduce similar crashes on an 8-core machine by
> increasing OMP_NUM_THREADS:
>
> My guess is that the OpenSSL functions we're calling are still not
> entirely thread-safe even in these recent versions of OpenSSL. We could
> want to look into this and maybe end up submitting a patch to OpenSSL.
Will using crypto_set_locking_callback function solve these problems?
http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#PROG1
http://linux.die.net/man/3/crypto_set_locking_callback
I will recheck the SSH format to fix the other issues you have pointed
out. Thanks!
--
Cheers,
Dhiru
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