krb5 commit: In PKINIT, use library initializer for OpenSSL

Greg Hudson ghudson at MIT.EDU
Tue Apr 15 13:01:12 EDT 2014


https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/d49e9f0e14adb24e6fe129080c54a0571a39611b
commit d49e9f0e14adb24e6fe129080c54a0571a39611b
Author: Tomas Kuthan <tkuthan at gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Apr 11 15:36:53 2014 +0200

    In PKINIT, use library initializer for OpenSSL
    
    Use a library initializer to prevent multiple threads using PKINIT
    from concurently initializing OpenSSL functions.  For cases where
    MT-safety is not assured by registering OpenSSL locking callbacks,
    this significantly lowers the odds of crashes caused by races in
    OpenSSL initialization.  (If OpenSSL initialization functions are
    called by some other thread directly, crashes are still possible.)
    
    [ghudson at mit.edu: simplify code changes and commit message]
    
    ticket: 6413

 src/plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c |   25 ++++++++------------
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c b/src/plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c
index 0237813..6133f09 100644
--- a/src/plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c
+++ b/src/plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@
 
 #include "pkinit_crypto_openssl.h"
 
-static void openssl_init(void);
-
 static krb5_error_code pkinit_init_pkinit_oids(pkinit_plg_crypto_context );
 static void pkinit_fini_pkinit_oids(pkinit_plg_crypto_context );
 
@@ -423,14 +421,15 @@ unsigned char pkinit_4096_dhprime[4096/8] = {
     0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF
 };
 
+MAKE_INIT_FUNCTION(pkinit_openssl_init);
+
 krb5_error_code
 pkinit_init_plg_crypto(pkinit_plg_crypto_context *cryptoctx)
 {
     krb5_error_code retval = ENOMEM;
     pkinit_plg_crypto_context ctx = NULL;
 
-    /* initialize openssl routines */
-    openssl_init();
+    (void)CALL_INIT_FUNCTION(pkinit_openssl_init);
 
     ctx = malloc(sizeof(*ctx));
     if (ctx == NULL)
@@ -2921,18 +2920,14 @@ cleanup:
     return retval;
 }
 
-static void
-openssl_init()
+int
+pkinit_openssl_init()
 {
-    static int did_init = 0;
-
-    if (!did_init) {
-        /* initialize openssl routines */
-        CRYPTO_malloc_init();
-        ERR_load_crypto_strings();
-        OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms();
-        did_init++;
-    }
+    /* Initialize OpenSSL. */
+    CRYPTO_malloc_init();
+    ERR_load_crypto_strings();
+    OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms();
+    return 0;
 }
 
 static krb5_error_code


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