From: Rafael Sadowski <rafael@sizeofvoid.org>
Subject: relayd: log errors before dropping a control connection
To: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2026 21:32:20 +0200

The control dispatcher silently closed the client connection when
imsgbuf_write or imsgbuf_get failed. A relayctl user then saw the
command break with no hint why, and nothing in the server log if we want
to debug it.

OK?


diff --git a/control.c b/control.c
index fb64608..5cff2c8 100644
--- a/control.c
+++ b/control.c
@@ -250,6 +250,8 @@ control_dispatch_imsg(int fd, short event, void *arg)
 
 	if (event & EV_WRITE) {
 		if (imsgbuf_write(&c->iev.ibuf) == -1) {
+			log_debug("%s: imsgbuf_write: %s", __func__,
+			    strerror(errno));
 			control_close(fd, cs);
 			return;
 		}
@@ -257,6 +259,7 @@ control_dispatch_imsg(int fd, short event, void *arg)
 
 	for (;;) {
 		if ((n = imsgbuf_get(&c->iev.ibuf, &imsg)) == -1) {
+			log_debug("%s: imsgbuf_get", __func__);
 			control_close(fd, cs);
 			return;
 		}