feat!: the OpenSSL stream asks a credentials source for its material - #799
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Included review availability: 3 reviews are currently available. Your included PR review attempts over the past 7 days set your current allowance at 5 reviews per hour. WalkthroughOpenSSL TLS now receives credentials through a pooled provider interface. PEM-file credentials load trust anchors and optional client credentials per connection. Streams validate peer authorisation and release installed credentials on closure. ChangesOpenSSL credentials provider
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participant SolidSyslogOpenSslStream_Create
participant SolidSyslogOpenSslCredentials
participant SSL_CTX
SolidSyslogOpenSslStream_Create->>SSL_CTX: create SSL context
SolidSyslogOpenSslStream_Create->>SolidSyslogOpenSslCredentials: Install(ctx)
SolidSyslogOpenSslCredentials->>SSL_CTX: load trust anchors and client credentials
SolidSyslogOpenSslStream_Create->>SolidSyslogOpenSslCredentials: authorise peer
SolidSyslogOpenSslStream_Create->>SolidSyslogOpenSslCredentials: Release()
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In `@docs/platforms/openssl/index.md`:
- Line 46: Update the contract-differences statement in the documentation to
match the two sections that follow: change “Three differences” to “Two
differences” unless a third documented difference is intentionally restored.
In `@docs/platforms/openssl/setup.md`:
- Around line 74-75: Add SolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentials_Destroy to the
teardown sequence described in the document, placing credentials cleanup
immediately after TLS stream destruction and before transport teardown. Ensure
the list includes sender, address, TLS stream, credentials, then transport.
- Around line 77-83: Update the mutual-TLS setup around
OpenSslPemFileCredentials_Create so ClientCertChainPath and ClientKeyPath are
assigned in the initial credentialsConfig before credentials are created; ensure
both fields are set before OpenSslPemFileCredentials_Initialise copies the
configuration.
In `@Platform/OpenSsl/Interface/SolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentials.h`:
- Around line 39-40: Use complete API names in lifecycle comments: in
Platform/OpenSsl/Interface/SolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentials.h lines 39-40
and Platform/OpenSsl/Source/SolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentials.c lines 61-64,
replace the abbreviated Create reference with
SolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentials_Create; in the source file lines 171-174,
replace Close with the applicable complete stream-close API name. No direct code
changes are required beyond updating these comments.
In `@Platform/OpenSsl/Source/SolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentialsPrivate.h`:
- Around line 22-25: Rename the externally linked helper from
OpenSslPemFileCredentials_Initialise to
SolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentials_Initialise consistently in
Platform/OpenSsl/Source/SolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentialsPrivate.h lines
22-25, SolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentials.c lines 43-46, and
SolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentialsStatic.c line 48; update the declaration,
definition, and call without changing behavior.
In `@Tests/SolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentialsTest.cpp`:
- Around line 147-155: In the SolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentials fixture, add
a helper that creates credentials with config and installs them using ctx and
installed, then replace the repeated two-line setup in the eleven applicable
test bodies with that helper. Leave tests that assert Install’s return value in
their existing form.
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| void OpenSslPemFileCredentials_Initialise( | ||
| struct SolidSyslogOpenSslCredentials* base, | ||
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Add the Tier 1 prefix to the cross-translation-unit helper.
OpenSslPemFileCredentials_Initialise has external linkage. The private header declares it, the static-pool translation unit calls it, and the implementation defines it. Rename it to SolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentials_Initialise.
Platform/OpenSsl/Source/SolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentialsPrivate.h#L22-L25: rename the declaration.Platform/OpenSsl/Source/SolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentials.c#L43-L46: rename the definition.Platform/OpenSsl/Source/SolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentialsStatic.c#L48-L48: rename the call.
As per path instructions, externally linked functions use SolidSyslogClass_Function.
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Platform/OpenSsl/Source/SolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentialsPrivate.h#L22-L25(this comment)Platform/OpenSsl/Source/SolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentials.c#L43-L46Platform/OpenSsl/Source/SolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentialsStatic.c#L48-L48
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In `@Platform/OpenSsl/Source/SolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentialsPrivate.h` around
lines 22 - 25, Rename the externally linked helper from
OpenSslPemFileCredentials_Initialise to
SolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentials_Initialise consistently in
Platform/OpenSsl/Source/SolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentialsPrivate.h lines
22-25, SolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentials.c lines 43-46, and
SolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentialsStatic.c line 48; update the declaration,
definition, and call without changing behavior.
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You are right about the rule, and this is being fixed - in its own pull request, immediately after this one.
docs/NAMING.md decides Tier 1 by linkage rather than by whether an integrator calls the identifier, so OpenSslPemFileCredentials_Initialise should indeed be SolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentials_Initialise. So should the other 41 classes: OpenSslStream_Initialise, MbedTlsStream_Initialise, PosixTcpStream_Initialise and the rest all have external linkage and none carries the prefix. Only SolidSyslogRecordStore, SolidSyslogBlockSequence and SolidSyslog itself follow the rule today.
Renaming this one class alone would make it the odd one out among more than forty, so it is being left matching its neighbours here and the whole set is renamed next, as one deliberate sweep.
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@DavidCozens, understood. The finding is valid under the Tier 1 linkage rule.
A complete rename sweep is the correct scope. Renaming only OpenSslPemFileCredentials_Initialise in this PR would create an inconsistent exception among the existing externally linked helpers.
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Learning: In the C production code, `docs/NAMING.md` defines Tier 1 naming by external linkage. More than forty existing externally linked class helper functions, including `OpenSslStream_Initialise`, `MbedTlsStream_Initialise`, and `PosixTcpStream_Initialise`, currently lack the required `SolidSyslogClass_Function` prefix. Rename these functions together in a dedicated consistency sweep instead of renaming an individual new helper in isolation.
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Purpose
Step 9 of the E39 TLS rework (#782), OpenSSL half: the stream stops naming its
credential material and asks a credentials source for it instead. This is half
the deliberate API break — the Mbed TLS half follows in the next pull request.
No
Closeskeyword, per the epic.Change Description
What is removed, and what replaces it
SolidSyslogOpenSslStreamConfiglosesCaBundlePath,ClientCertChainPathandClientKeyPath, and gainsCredentials. Every stale call site is a compileerror, which is what makes a one-shot break tolerable — nobody silently loses
their trust anchors.
SolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentialsis the shipped source, and it preservestoday's model exactly: it takes the same three paths and hands them to the same
three OpenSSL calls. It performs no file handling of its own — no
fopen,no reading, no parsing, no buffering. OpenSSL opens the files and owns what it
parsed, which is why this backend's
Releaseis a no-op and says so in acomment.
Detail codes move with the work
CLIENT_CREDENTIAL_INCOMPLETE,_MISMATCHEDand_NOT_INSTALLEDleaveSolidSyslogOpenSslStreamErrorsforSolidSyslogOpenSslPemFileCredentialsErrors:the fault is in where the material came from, not in the stream that asked for
it. A handler matching on source identity has to change, which is part of the
break. The codes after them in the stream enum renumber, as agreed — that is
the one silent part of this change, and the changelog will say so.
TRUST_ANCHORS_NOT_LOADEDis new on the backend, and reports atSOLIDSYSLOG_CAT_BAD_CONFIGrather than theCAT_TLS_STREAM_INIT_FAILEDthesame fault produced before. It is no longer a TLS-stream initialisation failure:
it is a credential source that could not produce its material, reported by the
class that could not produce it.
Two behaviour changes worth reading rather than skimming
Peer verification is now set outright.
SSL_CTX_set_verifyused to sitinside the success branch of
SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations, so a configurationthat loaded no anchors would also have set no verify mode. With fingerprint-only
authorisation coming in #753, that shape fails open. It is now its own call in
its own named function, with a comment saying why, and a test asserting the
verify mode is set when no trust anchors were installed.
A connection stops when nothing authorises the peer. After
Install, thestream checks that trust anchors were installed or at least one fingerprint was
supplied, and fails
OpenwithNO_PEER_AUTHORISATIONotherwise. That is thecontract's "require a trust anchor or a pinned fingerprint", checked where the
contract says it belongs — when a connection is made, not when the stream is
created.
Releasefires once perInstallcallWhatever that call returned, which is the change from the epic's wording agreed
in #797. The stream carries a flag set immediately before
Install, so abackend needs no rollback of its own and the integrator is always told when the
credential window closed — including on the paths where
Openfailed part way.Four tests pin it: after a successful close, after a failed
Open, not at allwithout an
Open, and not twice on a secondClose.Test Evidence
Driven red-then-green throughout; eight commits.
21 new backend tests covering the pool contract (null config, exhaustion,
unknown destroy), trust anchors installed and reported, a bundle that will not
load, the empty fingerprint list, and all four client-credential outcomes.
11 new stream tests for the role itself:
Installreceives the context thestream built, a failed
Installfails and unwindsOpen, the no-authorisationrefusal, fingerprint-only success, the verify mode set without anchors, and the
four
Releaselifecycle cases.Tests that moved rather than vanished. The mutual-TLS section and the
CA-bundle load test left
SolidSyslogOpenSslStreamTest.cppfor the backend,where they now sit against the class that does the work.
LoadVerifyLocationsFailureFreesCtxbecameCredentialsInstallFailureFreesCtx,because the context is built before the credentials are asked for and must not
leak if they fail.
gcc/debug:OK (1526 tests, 1526 ran, 3659 checks, 0 ignored, 0 filtered out)OpenSslIntegrationTestsagainst real OpenSSL:OK (17 tests, 17 ran, 84 checks)—including the mutual-TLS scenarios, now driven through the new seam
freertos-host/ fullctest:100% tests passed, 0 tests failed out of 23SolidSyslogBddTargetbuilds; both OpenSSL BDD senders rewiredPre-push gates:
clang-formatclean,check_spdx_headers.pygreen over 385files,
check_references.pyandcheck_platform_docs.pygreen, manifestsregenerated (
check_manifest.pyclean).misra_renumber.pywent 22 ambiguous to 23 — rule 11.3 on the new file'sbase-to-derived cast. Rather than suppress two sites, the cast is now behind a
single
OpenSslPemFileCredentials_SelfFromBase, the name D.002 already uses forthis construct, and one suppression line covers it. Back to 22, parity with the
branch base.
Areas Affected
Platform/OpenSsl/gains the PEM-file backend (four files) and loses thecredential-loading half of the stream.
Core/InterfacegainsSOLIDSYSLOG_TLS_CREDENTIALS_POOL_SIZE, default 1, documented as a role pool.Tests/gains a credentials double and the backend suite. Both OpenSSL BDDsenders and the OpenSSL integration test are rewired.
Documentation: the OpenSSL platform pages. The page said "the adapter reads
them", which was wrong even before this change — OpenSSL read them — and now
describes the role, the shipped source, and the custody limit honestly. One
divergence comes off the page: credentials no longer come only from the
filesystem.
Mbed TLS is untouched and still carries its three handle fields;
docs/tls.mdand
docs/hardening-path.mdare unchanged for the same reason, and move in thenext pull request.
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