Re: OpenSSL 1.1 breaks configure and more - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: OpenSSL 1.1 breaks configure and more
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Msg-id 7ff5558f-cff5-3768-2fb3-6b50b58294e5@iki.fi
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In response to Re: OpenSSL 1.1 breaks configure and more  (Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>)
Responses Re: OpenSSL 1.1 breaks configure and more  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>)
Re: OpenSSL 1.1 breaks configure and more  (Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>)
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On 07/05/2016 04:46 PM, Andreas Karlsson wrote:
> @@ -280,8 +287,9 @@ px_find_digest(const char *name, PX_MD **res)
>      digest = px_alloc(sizeof(*digest));
>      digest->algo = md;
>
> -    EVP_MD_CTX_init(&digest->ctx);
> -    if (EVP_DigestInit_ex(&digest->ctx, digest->algo, NULL) == 0)
> +    digest->ctx = EVP_MD_CTX_create();
> +    EVP_MD_CTX_init(digest->ctx);
> +    if (EVP_DigestInit_ex(digest->ctx, digest->algo, NULL) == 0)
>          return -1;
>
>      h = px_alloc(sizeof(*h));

Now that we're calling EVP_MD_CTX_create((), which allocates memory, are 
we risking memory leaks? It has always been part of the contract that 
you have to call px_md_free(), for any context returned by 
px_find_digest(), but I wonder just how careful we have been about that. 
Before this, you would probably get away with it without leaking, if the 
digest implementation didn't allocate any extra memory or other resources.

At least pg_digest and try_unix_std functions call px_find_digest(), and 
then do more palloc()s which could elog() if you run out of memory, 
leaking th digest struct. Highly unlikely, but I think it would be 
fairly straightforward to reorder those calls to eliminate the risk, so 
we probably should.

> @@ -854,6 +858,25 @@ load_dh_buffer(const char *buffer, size_t len)
>      return dh;
>  }
>
> +static DH  *
> +generate_dh_params(int prime_len, int generator)
> +{
> +#if SSLEAY_VERSION_NUMBER >= 0x00908000L
> +    DH *dh;
> +
> +    if ((dh = DH_new()) == NULL)
> +        return NULL;
> +
> +    if (DH_generate_parameters_ex(dh, prime_len, generator, NULL))
> +        return dh;
> +
> +    DH_free(dh);
> +    return NULL;
> +#else
> +    return DH_generate_parameters(prime_len, generator, NULL, NULL);
> +#endif
> +}
> +

I think now would be a good time to drop support for OpenSSL versions 
older than 0.9.8. OpenSSL don't even support 0.9.8 anymore, although 
there are probably distributions out there that still provide patches 
for it. But OpenSSL 0.9.7 and older are really not interesting for 
PostgreSQL 10 anymore, I think.

- Heikki




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