feat!: the Mbed TLS stream asks a credentials source for its material - #802
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WalkthroughThe Mbed TLS stream now receives credentials through a per-connection provider. A handle-based provider manages trust anchors and optional client credentials. Static pooling, lifecycle cleanup, sender integration, documentation, unit tests, and integration tests were updated. ChangesMbed TLS credentials provider
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The change moves TLS material into a shared pooled credentials source, but current lifecycle code leaves pool operations unprotected and can mix credentials between concurrent connections; related teardown paths can also mishandle shared or borrowed material. This creates a high-impact correctness and security risk, so the PR is not merge-ready until synchronization and ownership issues are fixed. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant BddSender
participant SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentials
participant SolidSyslogMbedTlsStream
participant mbedTLS
BddSender->>SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentials: Create credential handle
BddSender->>SolidSyslogMbedTlsStream: Create stream with Credentials
SolidSyslogMbedTlsStream->>SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentials: Install credentials
SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentials->>mbedTLS: Install trust anchors and client identity
SolidSyslogMbedTlsStream->>mbedTLS: Configure and open TLS connection
SolidSyslogMbedTlsStream->>mbedTLS: Free SSL configuration
SolidSyslogMbedTlsStream->>SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentials: Release installed credentials
BddSender->>SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentials: Destroy credential handle
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353-354: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winDestroy the TLS stream and credentials before the client certificate material.
credsConfiggives the credentials handle borrowed pointers toclientCert.CertandclientCert.Key. The stream contract requires that material to remain valid untilSolidSyslogMbedTlsStream_Destroy. Destroy the fixture-owned TLS stream and credentials before either test frees its client certificate.
Tests/MbedTlsIntegration/SolidSyslogMbedTlsStreamIntegrationTest.cpp#L353-L354: releasetlsStreamandcredentialsbefore destroyingclientCertandclientCa.Tests/MbedTlsIntegration/SolidSyslogMbedTlsStreamIntegrationTest.cpp#L412-L413: releasetlsStreamandcredentialsbefore destroyingclientCertand its issuing CAs.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@Bdd/Targets/Common/BddTargetTlsSender_MbedTls_LwipRawTcp.c`:
- Line 424: Update the teardown around
SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentials_Destroy to destroy credentials only when the
handle is pool-owned; preserve the shared SolidSyslogMbedTlsNullCredentials_Get
fallback without passing it to the destroy function.
- Line 60: Rename the file-scope static pointer from credentials to
BddTargetTlsSender_Credentials and update all references in the surrounding TLS
sender implementation, including the uses near lines 393, 394, and 424. Preserve
its type, initialization, and behavior.
Apply the same fix in
`@Bdd/Targets/Common/BddTargetTlsSender_MbedTls_PlusTcpTcp.c` at line 59: The same
file-scope naming issue occurs in the second Mbed TLS sender.
In `@docs/hardening-path.md`:
- Line 458: Update the credentials setup around
SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentials_Create to retain the returned handle in a
variable instead of assigning it inline. After the TLS stream or owning sender
is destroyed, call SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentials_Destroy on that stored
handle, ensuring cleanup occurs once per lifecycle cycle.
In `@Platform/MbedTls/Source/SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentialsStatic.c`:
- Around line 38-42: Protect shared credential-pool operations with the
configuration lock: in SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentials_Create, hold the lock
across allocator acquisition and SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentials_Initialise;
in SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentials_Destroy,
Platform/MbedTls/Source/SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentialsStatic.c lines 89-95,
hold the same lock across handle validation and slot release.
- Line 59: Move MbedTlsHandleCredentials_IsValidConfig below the public API
functions so SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentials_Create is immediately followed
by SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentials_Destroy, preserving the required public
API order.
In `@Tests/MbedTls/CMakeLists.txt`:
- Around line 189-191: Update the test target in CMakeLists to remove the
production source files SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentials.c,
SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentialsStatic.c, and
SolidSyslogMbedTlsNullCredentials.c, then link the production Mbed TLS library
target that exports SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentials instead.
Apply the same fix in `@Tests/MbedTlsIntegration/CMakeLists.txt` around lines 58 -
60: The integration test target has the same direct-source linkage issue.
In `@Tests/MbedTlsCredentialsFake.c`:
- Around line 21-24: Rename the file-scope static fake instance to use the
MbedTlsCredentialsFake_ prefix, and rename the Install and Release callbacks to
MbedTlsCredentialsFake_Install and MbedTlsCredentialsFake_Release. In both
callback signatures, rename the abstract SolidSyslogMbedTlsCredentials pointer
parameter from self to base and update its references.
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In `@Tests/MbedTlsIntegration/SolidSyslogMbedTlsStreamIntegrationTest.cpp`:
- Around line 353-354: The cleanup order in both test cases must preserve
borrowed certificate material until the TLS objects are destroyed. In
Tests/MbedTlsIntegration/SolidSyslogMbedTlsStreamIntegrationTest.cpp lines
353-354 and 412-413, release tlsStream and credentials before destroying
clientCert, clientCa, or the issuing CAs.
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| SolidSyslogStreamSender_Destroy(sender); | ||
| SolidSyslogLwipRawAddress_Destroy(address); | ||
| SolidSyslogMbedTlsStream_Destroy(tlsStream); | ||
| SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentials_Destroy(credentials); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Do not destroy the Null credentials fallback.
SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentials_Create can return SolidSyslogMbedTlsNullCredentials_Get() when the credentials pool is exhausted. Passing that shared fallback to SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentials_Destroy reports an unknown destroy during teardown.
Only destroy a pool-owned handle.
Proposed fix
+#include "SolidSyslogMbedTlsNullCredentials.h"
...
- SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentials_Destroy(credentials);
+ if (credentials != SolidSyslogMbedTlsNullCredentials_Get())
+ {
+ SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentials_Destroy(credentials);
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| SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentials_Destroy(credentials); | |
| if (credentials != SolidSyslogMbedTlsNullCredentials_Get()) | |
| { | |
| SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentials_Destroy(credentials); | |
| } |
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In `@Bdd/Targets/Common/BddTargetTlsSender_MbedTls_LwipRawTcp.c` at line 424,
Update the teardown around SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentials_Destroy to
destroy credentials only when the handle is pool-owned; preserve the shared
SolidSyslogMbedTlsNullCredentials_Get fallback without passing it to the destroy
function.
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Declining, though the mechanism is real: a pool-exhausted Create returns the shared Null credentials, and Destroy then reports an unknown destroy.
That exposure is not new or specific to this handle. SolidSyslogMbedTlsStream_Destroy(tlsStream) two lines above has it, SolidSyslogLwipRawTcpStream_Destroy after it has it, and the OpenSSL sender merged in #799 destroys its credentials unconditionally too. The targets take it deliberately — the comment at the head of BddTargetTlsSender_Destroy records that the pool-backed Destroy helpers tolerate a handle they do not own. Guarding one of the four calls in one of the targets would make the file harder to read without closing the case anywhere else.
If the idiom is worth changing it is worth changing across every BDD target at once, which is not this PR.
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@DavidCozens, acknowledged. The condition is real, but an isolated guard here would be inconsistent with the existing BDD target teardown convention.
I will not pursue this change in this PR. If you want a repository-wide teardown-policy follow-up, please request an issue.
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Repo: cososo-ltd/solid-syslog PR: 802
File: Bdd/Targets/Common/BddTargetTlsSender_MbedTls_LwipRawTcp.c:424-424
Timestamp: 2026-09-01T20:09:54.762Z
Learning: In the BDD target teardown code, pool-backed destroy helpers deliberately tolerate handles that they do not own, including shared null fallbacks returned after pool exhaustion. `Bdd/Targets/Common/BddTargetTlsSender_MbedTls_LwipRawTcp.c` uses unconditional destruction for `SolidSyslogMbedTlsStream_Destroy`, `SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentials_Destroy`, and `SolidSyslogLwipRawTcpStream_Destroy`. Do not add an isolated ownership guard for one handle; any policy change must update all BDD targets consistently.
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Purpose
Step 9b of the E39 TLS rework, and the mirror of #799. The Mbed TLS stream stops
holding key material and asks a credentials source for it, one connection at a
time. This is the second half of the single API break 0.2.0 gets:
CaChain,ClientCertChainandClientKeycome offSolidSyslogMbedTlsStreamConfig, andCredentialsgoes on.Part of E39 (#782). No
Closeskeyword - the whole branch carries those into thefinal feature-to-main PR.
Change Description
SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentialsis the source that ships with the pack andpreserves today's model: caller-built, caller-owned mbedTLS handles. Its config
carries
CaChain,ClientCertChain,ClientKeyand anRng, and it draws fromthe same
SOLIDSYSLOG_TLS_CREDENTIALS_POOL_SIZEpool #799 added.The client-credential logic moved rather than being rewritten: the pairing check,
the half-supplied case and the
mbedtls_ssl_conf_own_certcall now live in thebackend, along with the three detail codes that report them.
Installalwayssucceeds - no fault in our own credential stops delivery, and
mbedtls_ssl_conf_ca_chainreturns no status to fail on.Three decisions worth stating, all agreed before coding:
Rng.mbedtls_pk_check_pairneeds one, and thecheck moved here with the code it belongs to. Requiring it at Create keeps one
code path rather than adding a silent skip when it is absent. The same seeded
DRBG serves the stream and the source.
Releaseis called aftermbedtls_ssl_config_free. Thessl_configholdsthe caller's certificates in its
key_certnodes until it is freed, so that isthe earliest safe point to tell a source its material is no longer in use.
VERIFY_REQUIREDstays on the stream. Policy is the stream's; material isthe source's. The
NO_PEER_AUTHORISATIONgate sits in front of it, so aconfiguration with neither trust anchors nor a pinned fingerprint stops before
the handshake instead of reaching a peer the stream cannot identify.
That gate closes a divergence the Mbed TLS page recorded: a configuration with no
trust anchors used to surface as an untrusted peer once the handshake failed, and
now reports a bad configuration before it starts. The second divergence removed -
material having to stay parsed for the life of the stream, with no point at which
the adapter invites the integrator to release it - is answered by the credential
window the role gives every source.
Test Evidence
Red-green throughout, in four cycles: the backend's lifecycle (pool plumbing
copied per the established pattern), its trust-anchor install, its
client-credential install, then the stream's use of the role.
SolidSyslogMbedTlsHandleCredentialsTest- new, 25 tests. Install wires the CAchain and reports it, reports no fingerprints, presents a paired client
credential, and reports the half-supplied, mismatched and will-not-install
cases while still succeeding.
SolidSyslogMbedTlsStreamTest- the client-credential tests moved out to thesuite above; new tests cover Install being asked once per connection with the
stream's own
ssl_config, the failure and no-authorisation paths unwinding theopen, one Release per Install including on the paths where Open failed part
way, and Release landing after
mbedtls_ssl_config_free.SolidSyslogMbedTlsStreamPoolTest- a NULLCredentialsis refused at Create.MbedTlsIntegrationTests- reworked onto the shipped source and passingagainst real libmbedtls, including the no-anchors test now asserting
NO_PEER_AUTHORISATION.ctestover the debug preset in the freertos-host image: 24 of 24 suites pass.clang-format,
check_spdx_headers.py,misra_renumber.py, CI's owncppcheck-misra invocation (exit 0), markdownlint,
check_references.pyandcheck_manifest.pyall run locally and clean.Not run locally, as usual: the BDD lanes. Both mbedTLS BDD targets are updated
and compile-checked only by CI.
Areas Affected
Platform/MbedTls/- the stream's public config (breaking), its error codes, andthe new backend.
Core/is untouched; the OpenSSL pack is untouched. The twoFreeRTOS BDD targets and the mbedTLS integration harness are rewired.
docs/platforms/mbedtls/,docs/hardening-path.mdand the two generatedmanifests follow the code.
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