This bug applies to both the new stream-based agent forwarding, and
ordinary remote->local TCP port forwardings, because it was introduced
by the preliminary infrastructure in commit 09954a87c.
new_connection() and sk_new() accept a SockAddr *, and take ownership
of it. So it's a mistake to make an address, connect to it, and then
sk_addr_free() it: the free will decrement its reference count to
zero, and then the Socket made by the connection will be holding a
stale pointer. But that's exactly what I was doing in the version of
portfwdmgr_connect() that I rewrote in that refactoring. And then I
made the same error again in commit ae1148267 in the Unix stream-based
agent forwarding.
Now both fixed. Rather than remove the sk_addr_free() to make the code
look more like it used to, I've instead solved the problem by adding
an sk_addr_dup() at the point of making the connection. The idea is
that that should be more robust, in that it will still do the right
thing if portfwdmgr_connect_socket should later change so as not to
call its connect helper function at all.
The new Windows stream-based agent forwarding is unaffected by this
bug, because it calls new_named_pipe_client() with a pathname in
string format, without first wrapping it into a SockAddr.
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