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fix: drain full OpenSSL error queue in croakSsl()#109

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fix: drain full OpenSSL error queue in croakSsl()#109
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What

croakSsl() now drains the full OpenSSL error queue and reports the last error instead of the first.

Why

ERR_get_error() returns errors FIFO — oldest first. When OpenSSL pushes multiple errors for a single operation, or when a previous eval-caught failure leaves stale errors on the queue, croakSsl() reported the wrong (oldest/stale) error. This made debugging confusing: the error message described a previous failure, not the current one.

Confirmed with a C test program: manually pushing a stale error before triggering a real decrypt failure causes the old code to report the stale error.

How

Loop ERR_get_error() until the queue is empty, keeping the last error code. Use that for the error message. This also removes the need for the separate ERR_clear_error() call since the loop fully drains the queue.

Testing

  • New t/error_queue.t (4 tests): multiple eval-caught failures in sequence, verifying error messages remain meaningful and don't leak stale errors.
  • Full test suite passes (key_lifecycle.t plan mismatch is pre-existing on main).

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Changes: 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Code scan: clean

Tests: failed (23 Failed, 9 tests)

Branch hygiene: clean

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atoomic commented Mar 17, 2026

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not ok 63 - bad n with q triggers 'p not prime' error

#   Failed test 'bad n with q triggers 'p not prime' error'
#   at t/bignum.t line 92.
#                   'RSA.xs:729: OpenSSL error: d e not congruent to 1 at /home/runner/work/Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA/Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA/blib/lib/Crypt/OpenSSL/RSA.pm line 35.
# '
#     doesn't match '(?^:OpenSSL error: p not prime)'
not ok 64 - error queue flushed: repeat triggers same error

#   Failed test 'error queue flushed: repeat triggers same error'
#   at t/bignum.t line 101.
#                   'RSA.xs:729: OpenSSL error: d e not congruent to 1 at /home/runner/work/Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA/Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA/blib/lib/Crypt/OpenSSL/RSA.pm line 35.
# '
#     doesn't match '(?^:OpenSSL error: p not prime)'
# Looks like you failed 2 tests of 64.
Dubious, test returned 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
Failed 2/64 subtests 

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Koan-Bot and others added 2 commits March 17, 2026 18:59
croakSsl() called ERR_get_error() once, which returns the oldest error
from the queue. When OpenSSL pushes multiple errors for a single
operation, or when a previous eval-caught failure leaves stale errors,
the reported message could be wrong or misleading.

Loop ERR_get_error() until the queue is empty and report the last
(most recent) error, which is typically the most descriptive. This
also removes the need for a separate ERR_clear_error() call since
the loop fully drains the queue.

Add t/error_queue.t to verify error messages remain meaningful after
multiple eval-caught failures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@Koan-Bot Koan-Bot force-pushed the koan.atoomic/fix-croakssl-error-queue branch from b1d6ece to db39227 Compare March 18, 2026 01:00
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Rebase: fix: drain full OpenSSL error queue in croakSsl()

Branch koan.atoomic/fix-croakssl-error-queue rebased onto main and force-pushed.

Diff: 3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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Looks good @atoomic

@atoomic atoomic marked this pull request as ready for review March 18, 2026 04:36
@atoomic atoomic merged commit 5376a72 into cpan-authors:main Mar 18, 2026
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