On 03/08/18 09:48 PM, Boris Pismenny wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> On 03/08/18 18:50, Dave Watson wrote:
> > Add rx path for tls software implementation.
> >
> > recvmsg, splice_read, and poll implemented.
> >
> > An additional sockopt TLS_RX is added, with the same interface as
> > TLS_TX. Either TLX_RX or TLX_TX may be provided separately, or
> > together (with two different setsockopt calls with appropriate keys).
> >
> > Control messages are passed via CMSG in a similar way to transmit.
> > If no cmsg buffer is passed, then only application data records
> > will be passed to userspace, and EIO is returned for other types of
> > alerts.
> >
> > EBADMSG is passed for decryption errors, and E2BIG is passed for framing
> > errors. Both are unrecoverable.
>
> I think E2BIG is for too long argument list. EMSGSIZE might be more
> appropriate.
Sounds good.
> Also, we must check that the record is not too short (cipher specific).
> For TLS1.2 with AES-GCM the minimum length is 8 (IV) + 16 (TAG).
> The correct error for this case is EBADMSG, like a decryption failure.
>
> Also, how about bad TLS version (e.g. not TLS1.2)?
> A separate error type is required for bad version, because it triggers a
> unique alert in libraries such as OpenSSL.
> I thought of using EINVAL for bad version. What do you think?
Ah, I did not realize there was a separate alert for that, sounds good.
>
> I wonder if we should provide a more flexible method of obtaining errors for
> the future.
> Maybe use a special CMSG for errors?
> This CMSG will be triggered only after the socket enters the error state.
I'm not opposed to this in principle, but without a concrete use am
hesitant to add it. I don't know of any other error codes that could
be returned besides the ones discussed above.
> > ....
> > +
> > +int tls_sw_recvmsg(struct sock *sk,
> > + struct msghdr *msg,
> > + size_t len,
> > + int nonblock,
> > + int flags,
> > + int *addr_len)
> > +{
> > + struct tls_context *tls_ctx = tls_get_ctx(sk);
> > + struct tls_sw_context *ctx = tls_sw_ctx(tls_ctx);
> > + unsigned char control;
> > + struct strp_msg *rxm;
> > + struct sk_buff *skb;
> > + ssize_t copied = 0;
> > + bool cmsg = false;
> > + int err = 0;
> > + long timeo;
> Maybe try to read from the error queue here?
Sure.
