Merge branch 'maint-0.2.8' into release-0.2.8

changes/bug23690

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+  o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
+    - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
+      circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
+      Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
+

src/or/circuitlist.c

@@ -1939,6 +1939,7 @@ single_conn_free_bytes(connection_t *conn)
   if (conn->outbuf) {
     result += buf_allocation(conn->outbuf);
     buf_clear(conn->outbuf);
+    conn->outbuf_flushlen = 0;
   }
   if (conn->type == CONN_TYPE_DIR) {
     dir_connection_t *dir_conn = TO_DIR_CONN(conn);