Re: [PATCH] Log details for client certificate failures

On 13.07.22 01:06, Jacob Champion wrote:
>> I had to read up on this "ex_data" API. Interesting. But I'm wondering
>> a bit about how the life cycle of these objects is managed. What
>> happens if the allocated error string is deallocated before its
>> containing object? Or vice versa?
>
> Yeah, I'm currently leaning heavily on the lack of any memory context
> switches here. And I end up leaking out a pointer to the stale stack
> of be_tls_open_server(), which is gross -- it works since there are no
> other clients, but that could probably come back to bite us.
>
> The ex_data API exposes optional callbacks for new/dup/free (I'm
> currently setting those to NULL), so we can run custom code whenever
> the SSL* is destroyed. If you'd rather the data have the same lifetime
> of the SSL* object, we can switch to malloc/strdup/free (or even
> OPENSSL_strdup() in later versions). But since we don't have any use
> for the ex_data outside of this function, maybe we should just clear
> it before we return, rather than carrying it around.

Concretely, I was thinking like the attached top-up patch.

The other way can surely be made to work somehow, but this seems much
simpler and with fewer questions about the details.