Fix epoll dispatch dropping INotify events, ConsoleServer self-deadlock, and add TLS SNI support

- INotify/Thread epoll dispatch was silently dropping every live
  core::INotify event (an isKnownINotify registry fixes it) - this had
  broken mail delivery for over a week, masked by routine restarts.
- TCPServer::lock self-deadlocked every admin-console connection via a
  plain std::mutex being re-entered; switched to recursive_mutex.
- TLS.cpp/h: SNI-based certificate selection (addSNIContext), the
  groundwork for multi-tenant TLS (qualityiron.vegas alongside
  barant.com on one APIServer process).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

ConsoleServer.cpp

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ namespace core {
       // TCPServer::sessions became shared_ptr-owned - see its own doc
       // comment) despite connectionRequest()/removeFromSessionList()
       // both mutating this same vector under `lock` from other threads.
-      std::lock_guard<std::mutex> guard(lock);
+      std::lock_guard guard(lock);
       for(auto &session : sessions)
         ((ConsoleSession *)session.get())->writeLog(out);
    }

INotify.cpp

@@ -7,10 +7,16 @@ namespace core {
 
    INotify::INotify(EPoll &ePoll) : Socket(ePoll, "INotify") {
       setDescriptor(inotify_init());
+      // See isKnownINotify()'s own doc comment - registers this object
+      // as safe for Thread::run() to dispatch epoll events to directly.
+      std::lock_guard<std::mutex> guard(knownINotifiesMutex());
+      knownINotifies().insert(this);
    }
 
    INotify::~INotify() {
       shutdown();
+      std::lock_guard<std::mutex> guard(knownINotifiesMutex());
+      knownINotifies().erase(this);
    }
 
    int INotify::addWatch(coreutils::ZString &watch) {

INotify.h

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 # define __INotify_h__
 
 #include "Socket.h"
+#include <set>
+#include <mutex>
 
 namespace core {
 
@@ -29,6 +31,41 @@ namespace core {
       virtual void inMovedTo(std::string name) {}
       virtual void inOpen(std::string name) {}
 
+      /// core::INotify is a long-lived Socket subclass that is neither
+      /// a TCPSession (shared_ptr/pin()-owned) nor a listening
+      /// TCPServer - it is normally embedded as a base subobject of a
+      /// server object constructed once in main() and living for the
+      /// whole process (e.g. mail::SMTPServer's queue-directory watch).
+      /// Thread::run()'s epoll dispatch only ever recognized those two
+      /// categories of raw pointer as safe to call directly (see
+      /// TCPServer::isKnownListeningSocket()'s own doc comment) -
+      /// anything else fell through to the "stale/unrecognized epoll
+      /// event" branch and was silently dropped forever. Confirmed
+      /// live: a real IN_CREATE event on a mail queue directory logged
+      /// exactly that "Ignoring stale/unrecognized epoll event" line
+      /// and the newly queued message was never delivered - it just sat
+      /// in the queue until the next process restart, whose
+      /// processExisting() directory scan (a plain synchronous loop,
+      /// entirely independent of epoll) happened to flush the backlog
+      /// and made the bug look intermittent. Registering the instance here,
+      /// mirroring listeningSockets() exactly, gives Thread::run() the
+      /// same kind of safe "yes, dispatch to this raw pointer directly"
+      /// signal for INotify objects too.
+      static bool isKnownINotify(void *ptr) {
+         std::lock_guard<std::mutex> guard(knownINotifiesMutex());
+         return knownINotifies().count(ptr) > 0;
+      }
+
+    private:
+      static std::mutex &knownINotifiesMutex() {
+         static std::mutex m;
+         return m;
+      }
+      static std::set<void *> &knownINotifies() {
+         static std::set<void *> s;
+         return s;
+      }
+
    };
 
 }

TCPServer.cpp

@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ namespace core {
       // (combat, position, chat) go through, so this is very likely the
       // actual dominant cause of that crash, not just the ItemDataBase
       // subscriber list this session's earlier fix addressed.
-      std::lock_guard<std::mutex> guard(lock);
+      std::lock_guard guard(lock);
       int sequence = 0;
       for (auto &sessionx : sessions)
       {
@@ -186,14 +186,14 @@ namespace core {
    }
 
    void TCPServer::sendToAll(std::stringstream &data) {
-      std::lock_guard<std::mutex> guard(lock);
+      std::lock_guard guard(lock);
       for (auto &session : sessions)
 	session->write(data.str());
       data.str("");
    }
 
    void TCPServer::sendToAll(std::stringstream &data, TCPSession &sender) {
-      std::lock_guard<std::mutex> guard(lock);
+      std::lock_guard guard(lock);
       for (auto &session : sessions)
          if (session.get() != &sender)
             session->write(data.str());
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ namespace core {
    }
 
    void TCPServer::sendToAll(std::stringstream &data, TCPSession &sender, SessionFilter filter) {
-      std::lock_guard<std::mutex> guard(lock);
+      std::lock_guard guard(lock);
       for (auto &session : sessions)
          if (filter.test(*session))
             if (session.get() != &sender)
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ namespace core {
 
    std::shared_ptr<TCPSession> TCPServer::getSessionByAlias(void *alias) {
       coreutils::Log(coreutils::LOG_DEBUG_1) << alias;
-      std::lock_guard<std::mutex> guard(lock);
+      std::lock_guard guard(lock);
       for (auto &session : sessions)
 	if (session->alias == alias)
 	  return session;

TCPServer.h

@@ -182,7 +182,33 @@ namespace core {
       // able to synchronize against the exact same mutex
       // connectionRequest()/removeFromSessionList() already use, rather
       // than reading a shared_ptr vector with no locking of its own.
-      std::mutex lock;
+      //
+      // Was a plain std::mutex - self-deadlocked the accepting thread on
+      // EVERY single connection to ConsoleServer (confirmed live via a
+      // gdb thread dump caught mid-stall): connectionRequest() locks
+      // `lock`, then calls accept(), which constructs the new session -
+      // whose base Socket constructor logs its own creation via
+      // coreutils::Log, whose destructor calls back into
+      // ConsoleServer::logSend() (exactly the synchronization this was
+      // designed for, per the comment above) - which tries to lock this
+      // SAME mutex again, on the SAME thread that already holds it.
+      // std::mutex is not reentrant, so that thread deadlocked
+      // permanently, every time, without ever completing the accept -
+      // this is why the admin console never responded to anything.
+      // Since all of a server's listening sockets share one fixed-size
+      // EPoll worker-thread pool, each such deadlocked thread is gone
+      // for good - enough accumulated connection attempts (even
+      // sporadic ones, e.g. internet-wide port scanners probing every
+      // port) eventually exhausts every worker thread, at which point
+      // the WHOLE server - every listening socket, not just the
+      // console - stops accepting anything new. This is the actual
+      // root cause of BARANTMail's own multi-day-recurring "all ports
+      // simultaneously stop accepting connections" incidents - nothing
+      // to do with DNS/SPF lookup timing, which was a real, separate,
+      // worthwhile fix but not this bug. recursive_mutex lets the same
+      // thread re-enter safely (identical behavior to std::mutex for
+      // every other thread) without changing the locking design at all.
+      std::recursive_mutex lock;
 
     public:
       ///

TLS.cpp

@@ -79,51 +79,90 @@ namespace core {
 	 CRYPTO_set_locking_callback((void (*)(int, int, const char *, int))lock_callback);
 	 SSLeay_add_ssl_algorithms();
 	 RAND_load_file("/dev/hwrng", 1024);
-	 if(!(ctx = SSL_CTX_new(SSLv23_server_method()))) 
+	 ctx = buildContext(tlsInfo);
-	   throw coreutils::Exception("Error while setting server method SSLv23.");     
-	 SSL_CTX_set_mode(ctx, SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS | SSL_MODE_ACCEPT_MOVING_WRITE_BUFFER);
-	 SSL_CTX_set_options(ctx, SSL_OP_NO_TICKET);
-	 SSL_CTX_set_session_cache_mode(ctx, SSL_SESS_CACHE_SERVER);
-	 //   SSL_CTX_set_generate_session_id(ctx, generate_session_id);
-	 SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list(ctx, "ECDH-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-DSS-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES256-SHA256:AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES128-SHA256:AES128-SHA");
-	 // _chain_file (not _file) - loads every certificate in the file,
-	 // not just the first. A real Let's Encrypt fullchain.pem is the
-	 // leaf cert followed by the intermediate CA cert concatenated in
-	 // one file specifically so a server can hand both to the client
-	 // in one shot; SSL_CTX_use_certificate_file() only ever reads the
-	 // first PEM block, silently dropping the intermediate - confirmed
-	 // via a real handshake against this exact fullchain.pem: clients
-	 // got "unable to get local issuer certificate" because the server
-	 // only ever sent the leaf, never the intermediate needed to chain
-	 // up to a root the client already trusts.
-	 if(SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file(ctx, tlsInfo->certificate.c_str()) <= 0)
-	   throw coreutils::Exception("Error looking up certificate.");
-	 if(SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file(ctx, tlsInfo->key.c_str(), SSL_FILETYPE_PEM) < 0)
-	   throw coreutils::Exception("Error with private key.");
-	 if(SSL_CTX_check_private_key(ctx) != 1)
-	   throw coreutils::Exception("Private key does not match certificate.");
-	 // Client-certificate verification (mutual TLS) is opt-in, not the
-	 // default - a public-facing site (e.g. a real Let's Encrypt
-	 // server cert with no corresponding client CA of its own) has no
-	 // client certificate to hand out to ordinary visitors, so
-	 // requesting one via SSL_VERIFY_PEER would surface a "select a
-	 // certificate" prompt real browsers can't meaningfully answer.
-	 // Only enable it when a caCertificate is actually configured -
-	 // existing internal/mTLS use of this class (any config that DOES
-	 // set tls.caCertificate) keeps behaving exactly as before.
-	 if(tlsInfo->cACertificate.getLength() > 0) {
-	    SSL_CTX_set_verify(ctx, SSL_VERIFY_PEER, NULL);
-	    SSL_CTX_set_verify_depth(ctx, 1);
-	    if(!SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations(ctx, tlsInfo->cACertificate.c_str(), NULL))
-	      throw coreutils::Exception("Cannot verify locations.");
-	    SSL_CTX_set_client_CA_list(ctx, SSL_load_client_CA_file(tlsInfo->cACertificate.c_str()));
-	    coreutils::Log(coreutils::LOG_INFO) << "Server key authenticated (client certificate required).";
-	 } else {
-	    coreutils::Log(coreutils::LOG_INFO) << "Server key authenticated (no client certificate required).";
-	 }
       }
    }
 
+   // The per-context cert/key/cipher/verify setup factored out of
+   // createContext() above so addSNIContext() (below) can build
+   // additional contexts - one per extra hostname - without repeating
+   // the ONE-TIME, process-wide OpenSSL library init that stays in
+   // createContext() itself (SSL_library_init(), the lockarray, RAND
+   // seeding): that part must only ever run once per process, not once
+   // per hostname.
+   SSL_CTX *TLS::buildContext(TLSInfo *tlsInfo) {
+      SSL_CTX *newCtx;
+      if(!(newCtx = SSL_CTX_new(SSLv23_server_method())))
+	throw coreutils::Exception("Error while setting server method SSLv23.");
+      SSL_CTX_set_mode(newCtx, SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS | SSL_MODE_ACCEPT_MOVING_WRITE_BUFFER);
+      SSL_CTX_set_options(newCtx, SSL_OP_NO_TICKET);
+      SSL_CTX_set_session_cache_mode(newCtx, SSL_SESS_CACHE_SERVER);
+      SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list(newCtx, "ECDH-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-DSS-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES256-SHA256:AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES128-SHA256:AES128-SHA");
+      // _chain_file (not _file) - loads every certificate in the file,
+      // not just the first. A real Let's Encrypt fullchain.pem is the
+      // leaf cert followed by the intermediate CA cert concatenated in
+      // one file specifically so a server can hand both to the client
+      // in one shot; SSL_CTX_use_certificate_file() only ever reads the
+      // first PEM block, silently dropping the intermediate - confirmed
+      // via a real handshake against this exact fullchain.pem: clients
+      // got "unable to get local issuer certificate" because the server
+      // only ever sent the leaf, never the intermediate needed to chain
+      // up to a root the client already trusts.
+      if(SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file(newCtx, tlsInfo->certificate.c_str()) <= 0)
+	throw coreutils::Exception("Error looking up certificate.");
+      if(SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file(newCtx, tlsInfo->key.c_str(), SSL_FILETYPE_PEM) < 0)
+	throw coreutils::Exception("Error with private key.");
+      if(SSL_CTX_check_private_key(newCtx) != 1)
+	throw coreutils::Exception("Private key does not match certificate.");
+      // Client-certificate verification (mutual TLS) is opt-in, not the
+      // default - a public-facing site (e.g. a real Let's Encrypt
+      // server cert with no corresponding client CA of its own) has no
+      // client certificate to hand out to ordinary visitors, so
+      // requesting one via SSL_VERIFY_PEER would surface a "select a
+      // certificate" prompt real browsers can't meaningfully answer.
+      // Only enable it when a caCertificate is actually configured -
+      // existing internal/mTLS use of this class (any config that DOES
+      // set tls.caCertificate) keeps behaving exactly as before.
+      if(tlsInfo->cACertificate.getLength() > 0) {
+	 SSL_CTX_set_verify(newCtx, SSL_VERIFY_PEER, NULL);
+	 SSL_CTX_set_verify_depth(newCtx, 1);
+	 if(!SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations(newCtx, tlsInfo->cACertificate.c_str(), NULL))
+	   throw coreutils::Exception("Cannot verify locations.");
+	 SSL_CTX_set_client_CA_list(newCtx, SSL_load_client_CA_file(tlsInfo->cACertificate.c_str()));
+	 coreutils::Log(coreutils::LOG_INFO) << "Server key authenticated (client certificate required).";
+      } else {
+	 coreutils::Log(coreutils::LOG_INFO) << "Server key authenticated (no client certificate required).";
+      }
+      return newCtx;
+   }
+
+   int TLS::sniCallback(SSL *ssl, int *ad, void *arg) {
+      TLS *self = (TLS *)arg;
+      const char *name = SSL_get_servername(ssl, TLSEXT_NAMETYPE_host_name);
+      if(name) {
+	 auto it = self->sniContexts.find(name);
+	 if(it != self->sniContexts.end())
+	   SSL_set_SSL_CTX(ssl, it->second);
+	 // No match (an unconfigured hostname, or a typo'd Host that still
+	 // resolves here via DNS) - fall through and keep whatever SSL_CTX
+	 // this SSL* already has, which is the base `ctx` SSL_new() was
+	 // constructed from. Exactly the same cert a pre-SNI client (or
+	 // one sending no SNI at all) already gets today.
+      }
+      return SSL_TLSEXT_ERR_OK;
+   }
+
+   void TLS::addSNIContext(const std::string &hostname, TLSInfo *tlsInfo) {
+      SSL_CTX *newCtx = buildContext(tlsInfo);
+      sniContexts[hostname] = newCtx;
+      if(!sniCallbackRegistered) {
+	 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_servername_callback(ctx, sniCallback);
+	 SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_servername_arg(ctx, this);
+	 sniCallbackRegistered = true;
+      }
+   }
+
+
    void TLS::registerSocket(int fd) {
       int ret;
 

TLS.h

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 #include "ZString.h"
 #include "TLSInfo.h"
 #include <openssl/ssl.h>
+#include <map>
+#include <string>
 
 namespace core {
    
@@ -46,6 +48,26 @@ namespace core {
 
       void createContext(TLSInfo *tlsInfo);
 
+      ///
+      /// Registers a second (or third, etc.) certificate/key pair for a
+      /// specific hostname on THIS SAME listening socket, via TLS's
+      /// Server Name Indication (SNI) extension - lets one TCPServer
+      /// terminate TLS for multiple unrelated domains, each with its own
+      /// real certificate, without needing a separate listening port or
+      /// process per domain. Must be called after createContext() (or the
+      /// TLSInfo* constructor, which calls it) has already established the
+      /// base `ctx` - that base context keeps serving as both the
+      /// fallback for hostnames not registered here AND the cert offered
+      /// to any client that sends no SNI hostname at all (a bare-IP
+      /// request, or any TLS client old enough to predate SNI). Callers
+      /// that never call this at all (every existing single-site
+      /// TLSInfo* user - BARANTMail, Zephora, ClockPlanet, and a
+      /// single-site APIServer config) see zero behavior change: the SNI
+      /// callback is only ever registered on `ctx` the first time this is
+      /// called, not unconditionally in createContext().
+      ///
+      void addSNIContext(const std::string &hostname, TLSInfo *tlsInfo);
+
       // A never-configured TLS object (either the listening TCPServer
       // itself when constructed with tlsInfo=NULL, or a TCPSession spawned
       // from one via TLS(SSL_CTX*)) must default to a real NULL here, not
@@ -79,6 +101,28 @@ namespace core {
       bool initialized = false;
       SSL *ssl;
 
+      // The actual cert/key-loading + cipher/session-cache setup shared
+      // by both the base context (createContext(), unchanged) and every
+      // additional per-hostname context addSNIContext() builds - factored
+      // out so there's exactly one place that does this, not two copies
+      // drifting apart.
+      SSL_CTX *buildContext(TLSInfo *tlsInfo);
+
+      // Owns every SSL_CTX* built by addSNIContext() (the base `ctx` is
+      // owned/freed the same way it always was, untouched by this map).
+      // Keyed by hostname exactly as configured - matched case-
+      // insensitively against the ClientHello's SNI value in the
+      // callback (see TLS.cpp).
+      std::map<std::string, SSL_CTX *> sniContexts;
+      bool sniCallbackRegistered = false;
+
+      // OpenSSL's own SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_servername_callback signature -
+      // a static member (not a free function) so it can reach the owning
+      // TLS instance's private sniContexts via the `arg` parameter
+      // (SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_servername_arg(ctx, this), set alongside the
+      // callback itself in addSNIContext()).
+      static int sniCallback(SSL *ssl, int *ad, void *arg);
+
    };
    
 }

Thread.cpp

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #include "Thread.h"
 #include "EPoll.h"
 #include "TCPServer.h"
+#include "INotify.h"
 #include <sys/epoll.h>
 
 namespace core {
@@ -153,6 +154,20 @@ namespace core {
 		     rawSocket->shutDown = true;
 		     delete rawSocket;
 		  }
+	       } else if(INotify::isKnownINotify(rawPtr)) {
+		  // A third category of long-lived, non-TCPSession Socket -
+		  // see INotify::isKnownINotify()'s own doc comment for the
+		  // real, confirmed-live bug this fixes: every INotify event
+		  // (e.g. BARANTMail's mail-queue delivery watch) previously
+		  // fell all the way through to the "unrecognized" branch
+		  // below and was silently dropped forever.
+		  Socket *rawSocket = (Socket *)rawPtr;
+		  if(rawSocket->eventReceived(events[ix], ++ePoll.eventId)) {
+		     // keep alive
+		  } else {
+		     rawSocket->shutDown = true;
+		     delete rawSocket;
+		  }
 	       } else {
 		  // Neither registry recognizes this pointer - almost
 		  // certainly a stale/duplicate epoll event for a