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[tor-bugs] #25803 [- Select a component]: Infinite restart loop when daemon crashes
#25803: Infinite restart loop when daemon crashes
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Reporter: tiejohg2sahth | Owner: (none)
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: Medium | Milestone:
Component: - Select a component | Version:
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
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On Ubuntu, using Tor from the official PPA, when the Tor daemon crashes
(im my case because of this bug
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23693), it is
automatically restarted.
As a result Tor uses 100% CPU continuously because of its hopeless
start->crash->start->crash... behavior.
A better behavior could be to detect the crash (SIGSEV, SIGABRT...) from
the process return code and do not restart in that case.
The crash-restart loop behavior can also be dangerous security wise,
because for example exploits against ASLR have a framework to do brute
force attacks if the process automatically restarts.
I could not understand where this behavior comes from in the code, because
the systemd service file in /lib/systemd/system/tor.service seem to be
empty.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25803>
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