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    kist: Don't write above the highwater outbuf mark · be84ed1a
    David Goulet authored and Nick Mathewson's avatar Nick Mathewson committed
    
    
    KIST works by computing how much should be allowed to write to the kernel for
    a given socket, and then it writes that amount to the outbuf.
    
    The problem is that it could be possible that the outbuf already has lots of
    data in it from a previous scheduling round (because the kernel is full/busy
    and Tor was not able to flush the outbuf yet). KIST ignores that the outbuf
    has been filling (is above its "highwater") and writes more anyway. The end
    result is that the outbuf length would exceed INT_MAX, hence causing an
    assertion error and a corresponding "Bug()" message to get printed to the
    logs.
    
    This commit makes it for KIST to take into account the outbuf length when
    computing the available space.
    
    Bug found and patch by Rob Jansen.
    
    Closes #29168. TROVE-2019-001.
    
    Signed-off-by: David Goulet's avatarDavid Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
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