Merge branch 'sp/maint-http-backend-die-triggers-die-recursively'

* sp/maint-http-backend-die-triggers-die-recursively:
  http-backend: Don't infinite loop during die()

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/http-backend.c b/http-backend.c
index 345c12b790..d1e83d0906 100644
--- a/http-backend.c
+++ b/http-backend.c
@@ -538,15 +538,19 @@ static void service_rpc(char *service_name)
 
 static NORETURN void die_webcgi(const char *err, va_list params)
 {
-	char buffer[1000];
+	static int dead;
 
-	http_status(500, "Internal Server Error");
-	hdr_nocache();
-	end_headers();
+	if (!dead) {
+		char buffer[1000];
+		dead = 1;
 
-	vsnprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), err, params);
-	fprintf(stderr, "fatal: %s\n", buffer);
-	exit(0);
+		vsnprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), err, params);
+		fprintf(stderr, "fatal: %s\n", buffer);
+		http_status(500, "Internal Server Error");
+		hdr_nocache();
+		end_headers();
+	}
+	exit(0); /* we successfully reported a failure ;-) */
 }
 
 static char* getdir(void)