SSL_*_app_data uses ex_data index 0, which will be the first one allocated
by SSL_get_ex_new_index. Thus, if we ever started using the ex_data feature
for some other purpose, or a library linked to Tor ever started using
OpenSSL's ex_data feature, Tor would break in spectacular and mysterious
ways. Using the SSL_*_ex_data functions directly now may save us from
that particular form of breakage in the future.
But I would not be surprised if using OpenSSL's ex_data functions at all
(directly or not) comes back to bite us on our backends quite hard. The
specified behaviour of dup_func in the man page is stupid, and
crypto/ex_data.c is a horrific mess.
Sets:
* Documentation
* Logging domain
* Configuration option
* Scheduled event
* Makefile
It also creates status.c and the log_heartbeat() function.
All code was written by Sebastian Hahn. Commit message was
written by me (George Kadianakis).
Our regular DH parameters that we use for circuit and rendezvous
crypto are unchanged. This is yet another small step on the path of
protocol fingerprinting resistance.
(Backport from 0.2.2's 5ed73e3807)
Patch our implementation of tor_lockfile_lock() to handle this case
correctly. Also add a note that blocking behaviour differs from windows
to *nix. Fixes bug 2504, issue pointed out by mobmix.
Previously if you wanted to say "All messages except network
messages", you needed to say "[*,~net]" and if you said "[~net]" by
mistake, you would get no messages at all. Now, if you say "[~net]",
you get everything except networking messages.
Our regular DH parameters that we use for circuit and rendezvous
crypto are unchanged. This is yet another small step on the path of
protocol fingerprinting resistance.
Our public key functions assumed that they were always writing into a
large enough buffer. In one case, they weren't.
(Incorporates fixes from sebastian)
The C standard says that INT32_MAX is supposed to be a signed
integer. On platforms that have it, we get the correct
platform-defined value. Our own replacement, however, was
unsigned. That's going to cause a bug somewhere eventually.
C99 allows a syntax for structures whose last element is of
unspecified length:
struct s {
int elt1;
...
char last_element[];
};
Recent (last-5-years) autoconf versions provide an
AC_C_FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER test that defines FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER
to either no tokens (if you have c99 flexible array support) or to 1
(if you don't). At that point you just use offsetof
[STRUCT_OFFSET() for us] to see where last_element begins, and
allocate your structures like:
struct s {
int elt1;
...
char last_element[FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER];
};
tor_malloc(STRUCT_OFFSET(struct s, last_element) +
n_elements*sizeof(char));
The advantages are:
1) It's easier to see which structures and elements are of
unspecified length.
2) The compiler and related checking tools can also see which
structures and elements are of unspecified length, in case they
wants to try weird bounds-checking tricks or something.
3) The compiler can warn us if we do something dumb, like try
to stack-allocate a flexible-length structure.
