feat: an Mbed TLS credentials backend that parses PEM per connection - #803
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to This PR adds per-connection PEM credential parsing and cleanup. It is mergeable with explicit owner awareness that the integration suite does not exercise the production-library wiring, leaving a bounded integration-validation risk; the remaining documentation issues are minor follow-up items. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant CredentialPool
participant SolidSyslogMbedTlsPemBufferCredentials
participant MbedTLS
Caller->>CredentialPool: Create(config)
CredentialPool->>SolidSyslogMbedTlsPemBufferCredentials: Validate and initialise
SolidSyslogMbedTlsPemBufferCredentials->>MbedTLS: Parse and install PEM credentials
Caller->>CredentialPool: Destroy(base)
CredentialPool->>SolidSyslogMbedTlsPemBufferCredentials: Cleanup parsed state
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In `@docs/platforms/mbedtls/index.md`:
- Around line 54-57: Update the rotation documentation around
SolidSyslogSender_Disconnect to use “reparse” consistently in both occurrences,
and remove the comma before “because” in the use-after-free sentence; preserve
the existing meaning and UK English style.
In `@Platform/MbedTls/Source/SolidSyslogMbedTlsPemBufferCredentials.c`:
- Line 91: Rename the Boolean locals to predicate-style names and update all
references: rename ok to isInstallationValid, both parsed variables to isParsed
in Platform/MbedTls/Source/SolidSyslogMbedTlsPemBufferCredentials.c at lines 91,
185, and 230; rename valid to isValid and released to isReleased in
Platform/MbedTls/Source/SolidSyslogMbedTlsPemBufferCredentialsStatic.c at lines
65 and 92. Preserve the existing behavior.
- Line 257: The PEM presence check must treat every non-NULL Bytes buffer as
supplied, including zero-length buffers, so invalid extents are not silently
treated as absent. In SolidSyslogMbedTlsPemBufferCredentials.c lines 257-257,
update the buffer-presence logic; in lines 122-122, make the client PEM
termination validation reject zero Length before evaluating Length - 1U and
report PEM_NOT_TERMINATED before the generic client credential parse error.
In `@Tests/MbedTlsIntegration/CMakeLists.txt`:
- Around line 59-60: Update the MbedTlsIntegrationTests target to link against
the production Mbed TLS library, and remove the direct
SolidSyslogMbedTlsPemBufferCredentials.c and
SolidSyslogMbedTlsPemBufferCredentialsStatic.c source entries from that target.
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The trust-anchor path reported PEM_NOT_TERMINATED and the client path folded the same fault into a parse failure, so the code existed on one path only. A pointer with no extent is now reported rather than read as material that was never supplied, and the length guard moves into the termination check that needs it. docs/NAMING.md distinguishes a boolean condition, which earns an is/has/can prefix, from a short-lived result local, which does not - matching what every file in Core and Platform already does.
modernize-use-auto on the downcast the custody assertion makes, and a duplicate mbedtls/pk.h the PEM writers added. Both lanes that analyse this tree stop at the first error, so the second was only visible by reproducing the tidy preset locally.
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Purpose
Step 10 of the E39 TLS rework: the custody demonstrator.
SolidSyslogMbedTlsPemBufferCredentialsparses PEM held in memory when a connection is made and lets go of what it parsed when
that connection ends, so 0.2.0 ships a source that uses the credential window rather than
only declaring one.
Additive throughout - no API breaks, and the handle source is untouched. Part of E39 (#782);
no
Closeskeyword, per the branch convention.Change Description
Installparses into anmbedtls_x509_crtpair and anmbedtls_pk_contextheld in the poolslot, installs them, and reports what it installed.
Releasefrees all three. That is thewhole custody story, and it rests on what Mbed TLS does on free rather than on anything we
add - verified against 3.6.2 rather than assumed:
mbedtls_pk_freecalls the key type's free thenmbedtls_platform_zeroize(ctx, sizeof);for RSA every limb goes through
mbedtls_mpi_zeroize_and_free.mbedtls_x509_crt_freewipes the decoded DER withmbedtls_zeroize_and_free(raw.p, raw.len)and zeroises each struct.
This library copies the PEM nowhere, so it holds no second copy to wipe. The docs say
"released and wiped", not "we zeroise", because the latter would be someone else's work.
The buffer contract, and why it is a length rather than a NUL-terminated pointer. Both
Mbed TLS parsers require PEM whose last byte is NUL:
mbedtls_x509_crt_parsegates its PEMbranch on
buf[buflen - 1] == '\0'before callingstrstr, andpkparse.ccheckskey[keylen - 1] != '\0'at six sites. Taking a pointer and callingstrlenourselves wouldbe an unbounded scan with no way to detect an unterminated buffer, which is what CERT STR32-C
warns about. Taking the length lets us verify the precondition with one indexed read inside
the caller's declared extent, so the config carries
{Bytes, Length}withLengthincludingthe terminator, matching Mbed TLS's own convention.
That check earns its own detail code. A length given as
strlenrather thanstrlen + 1does not fail cleanly in Mbed TLS: the PEM branch goes false and the buffer is parsed as DER,
so the integrator is told "not a certificate" and nothing about the length.
PEM_NOT_TERMINATEDnames the mistake they actually made.
xxd -ioutput is the usual place this bites, and thesetup page says so.
Destroyfrees the parsed material as well, through the poolCleanuphook - destroying asource part way through a connection must not leave a parsed private key in a slot the pool
is about to hand out again.
The client credential follows the rule the branch settled: a fault in the material we present
is reported and never stops delivery, so an unparseable, half-supplied or mismatched credential
leaves the connection server-authenticated. A trust anchor that will not parse does fail
Install, as on the other sources.Two smaller decisions worth flagging. The PEM buffer is a small public struct,
SolidSyslogMbedTlsPemBuffer, rather than six flat config fields, so the rule about the lengthis documented once instead of three times. And
SOLIDSYSLOG_TLS_CREDENTIALS_POOL_SIZE's commentclaimed an instance "carries only where its material comes from, never the material" - true when
#799 wrote it, false as of this PR, so it is corrected here.
Test Evidence
Red-green in three cycles: trust anchors, then the client credential, then release and re-install.
The suite is
SolidSyslogMbedTlsPemBufferCredentialsTest, inTests/MbedTlsIntegration/andbuilt against real libmbedtls. That is deliberate. A fake parser would prove only that we
called it; the claims worth making here - that a corrupt PEM is rejected, that a key from a
different certificate fails the pairing check, that Release actually lets go - are only
meaningful against the library that does the work. Error injection is easier this way too: the
tests corrupt a byte of real PEM rather than arranging a canned return. The coverage lane builds
no mbedTLS at all, so nothing is lost from the gate by placing them here.
20 tests: pool lifecycle and the two bad-config paths; anchors parsed, wired and reported;
the unterminated buffer and the unparseable chain; a client credential presented, absent,
half-supplied, unparseable and mismatched; Release letting go of everything with and without
an Install; and a second Install parsing again afterwards.
MbedTlsTestCertgainedWriteCertPem/WriteKeyPem, both returning the length includingthe terminator, so the tests exercise the same contract an integrator does.
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 own cppcheck-misra invocation (exit 0, withone Rule 11.3 suppression added for the new
SelfFromBase), markdownlint,check_references.pyand
check_manifest.pyall clean locally.Areas Affected
Platform/MbedTls/- one new backend, nothing existing changed. One comment corrected inCore/Interface/SolidSyslogTunablesDefaults.h.Tests/MbedTlsIntegration/gains the suite andthe two PEM writers.
docs/platforms/mbedtls/and the two generated manifests follow the code.The BDD targets are untouched: they keep the handle source, which is the right one for material
baked into rodata.
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