ssh: Prevent timeout from deadlock

Using Popen.wait() on a process that has output sent to a pipe can
potentially deadlock if the process produces enough output to fill the
pipe, since it will stall and never terminate waiting for the pipe to
have more space.

Instead, use Popen.communicate() with the timeout parameter. This will
consume all output until EOF (preventing the process from stalling due
to a full pipe), and then check the return code. In the event of a
timeout error, Popen.communicate() doesn't loose any data, so it's safe
to call it again after the Popen.kill() in the exception handler.

This likely was done this way because the timeout parameter was new in
Python 3.3, but this shouldn't be a concern anymore

Signed-off-by: Joshua Watt <[email protected]>

Author: JoshuaWatt

labgrid/util/ssh.py

@@ -453,8 +453,8 @@ def _start_own_master(self):
         )
 
         try:
-            if self._master.wait(timeout=connect_timeout) != 0:
-                stdout, stderr = self._master.communicate()
+            stdout, stderr = self._master.communicate(timeout=connect_timeout)
+            if self._master.returncode != 0:
                 raise ExecutionError(
                     f"failed to connect to {self.host} with args {args}, returncode={self._master.returncode} {stdout},{stderr}"  # pylint: disable=line-too-long
                 )