The previous commits replace the use of dynamically allocated linked lists
for X.509 name inspection. This commit is the first in a series which attempts
the same for the `ExtendedKeyUsage` extension. So far, when a CRT is parsed,
the extension is traversed and converted into a dynamically allocated linked
list, which is then search through whenever the usage of a CRT needs to be
checked through `mbedtls_x509_check_extended_key_usage()`.
As a first step, this commit introduces a raw buffer holding the bounds
of the `ExtendedKeyUsage` extension to the `mbedtls_x509_crt` structure.
The previous CN name comparison function x509_crt_verify_name()
traversed the dynamically allocated linked list presentation of
the CRT's subject, comparing each entry to the desired hostname
configured by the application code.
Eventually, we want to get rid of the linked list presentation of
the CRT's subject to save both code and RAM usage, and hence need
to rewrite the CN verification routine in a way that builds on the
raw ASN.1 subject data only.
In order to avoid duplicating the code for the parsing of the nested
ASN.1 name structure, this commit performs the name search by using
the existing name traversal function mbedtls_x509_name_cmp_raw(),
passing to it a callback which checks whether the current name
component matches the desired hostname.
There are three operations that need to be performed on an X.509 name:
1 Initial traversal to check well-formedness of the ASN.1 structure.
2 Comparison between two X.509 name sequences.
3 Checking whether an X.509 name matches a client's ServerName request.
Each of these tasks involves traversing the nested ASN.1 structure,
In the interest of saving code, we aim to provide a single function
which can perform all of the above tasks.
The existing comparison function is already suitable not only for task 2,
but also for 1: One can simply pass two equal ASN.1 name buffers, in which
case the function will succeed if and only if that buffer is a well-formed
ASN.1 name.
This commit further adds a callback to `mbedtls_x509_name_cmp_raw()` which
is called after each successful step in the simultaneous name traversal and
comparison; it may perform any operation on the current name and potentially
signal that the comparison should be aborted.
With that, task 3 can be implemented by passing equal names and a callback
which aborts as soon as it finds the desired name component.
This commit replaces the previous calls to `mbedtls_x509_name_cmp()`
during CRT verification (to match child and parent, to check whether
a CRT is self-issued, and to match CRLs and CAs) by calls to the new
`mbedtls_x509_name_cmp_raw()` using the raw ASN.1 data; it passes the
raw buffers introduced in the last commits.
The previous name comparison function mbedtls_x509_name_cmp() is now
both unused and unneeded, and is removed.
To make use of the X.509 name comparison function based on raw
ASN.1 data that was introduced in the previous commit, this commit
adds an ASN.1 buffer field `issuer_raw_no_hdr` to `mbedtls_x509_crl`
which delimits the raw contents of the CRLs `Issuer` field.
The previous field `issuer_raw` isn't suitable for that because
it includes the ASN.1 header.
This commit provides a new function `mbedtls_x509_name_cmp_raw()`
to x509.c for comparing to X.509 names by traversing the raw ASN.1
data (as opposed to using the dynamically allocated linked list
of `mbedtls_x509_name` structures). It has external linkage because
it will be needed in `x509_crt` and `x509_crl`, but is marked
internal and hence not part of the public API.
The function `mbedtls_x509_sig_alg_gets()` previously needed the
raw ASN.1 OID string even though it is implicit in the PK and MD
parameters.
This commit modifies `mbedtls_x509_sig_alg_gets()` to infer the OID
and remove it from the parameters.
This will be needed for the new X.509 CRT structure which will
likely not store the signature OID.
Care has to be taken to handle the case of RSASSA-PSS correctly,
where the hash algorithm in the OID list is set to MBEDTLS_MD_NONE
because it's only determined by the algorithm parameters.
The previous code
- checked that at least 1 byte of ASN.1 tag data is available,
- read and stored that ASN.1 tag,
- called the ASN.1 parsing function, part of which is checking
that enough space is available and that the ASN.1 tag matches
the expected value MBEDTLS_ASN1_OID.
Since the ASN.1 parsing function includes bounds checks,
this can be streamlined to:
- call the ASN.1 parsing function directly,
- on success, store MBEDTLS_ASN1_OID in the tag field.
This commit applies this simplification to mbedtls_asn1_get_alg().
Consider the following code-template:
int beef();
static int foo()
{
/* ... */
ret = beef();
if( ret != 0 )
return( ret + HIGH_LEVEL );
/* ... */
}
int bar()
{
/* ... */
ret = foo();
if( ret != 0 )
...
/* ... */
}
This leads to slightly larger code than expected, because when the
compiler inlines foo() into bar(), the sequence of return sequences
cannot be squashed, because compiler might not have knowledge that
the wrapping `ret + HIGH_LEVEL` of the return value of beef() doesn't
lead to foo() returning 0.
This can be avoided by performing error code wrapping in nested
functions calls at the top of the call chain.
This commit applies this slight optimization to mbedtls_x509_get_name().
It also moves various return statements into a single exit section,
again with the intend to save code.
X.509 names in ASN.1 are encoded as ASN.1 SEQUENCEs of ASN.1 SETs
of Attribute-Value pairs, one for each component in the name. (For
example, there could be an Attribute-Value pair for "DN=www.mbedtls.org").
So far, `mbedtls_x509_get_name()` parsed such names by two nested
loops, the outer one traversing the outer ASN.1 SEQUENCE and the
inner one the ASN.1 SETs.
This commit introduces a helper function `x509_set_sequence_iterate()`
which implements an iterator through an ASN.1 name buffer; the state
of the iterator is a triple consisting of
- the current read pointer
- the end of the current SET
- the end of the name buffer
The iteration step reads a new SET if the current read pointer has
reached the end of the current SET, and afterwards reads the next
AttributeValue pair.
This way, iteration through the X.509 name data can be implemented
in a single loop, which increases readability and slightly reduces
the code-size.
This commit introduces a macro `MBEDTLS_ASN1_IS_STRING_TAG`
that can be used to check if an ASN.1 tag is among the list
of string tags:
- MBEDTLS_ASN1_BMP_STRING
- MBEDTLS_ASN1_UTF8_STRING
- MBEDTLS_ASN1_T61_STRING
- MBEDTLS_ASN1_IA5_STRING
- MBEDTLS_ASN1_UNIVERSAL_STRING
- MBEDTLS_ASN1_PRINTABLE_STRING
- MBEDTLS_ASN1_BIT_STRING
`x509_get_attr_type_value()` checks for the presence of a tag byte
and reads and stores it before calling `mbedtls_asn1_get_tag()` which
fails if either the tag byte is not present or not as expected. Therefore,
the manual check can be removed and left to `mbedtls_asn1_get_tag()`, and
the tag can be hardcoded after the call succeeded. This saves a few bytes
of code.
The server-side routine `ssl_pick_cert()` is responsible for
picking a suitable CRT from the list of CRTs configured on the
server. For that, it previously used the public key context
from the certificate to check whether its type (including the
curve type for ECC keys) suits the ciphersuite and the client's
preferences.
This commit changes the code to instead use the PK context
holding the corresponding private key. For inferring the type
of the key, this makes no difference, and it removes a PK-from-CRT
extraction step which, if CRTs are stored raw, is costly in terms
of computation and memory: CRTs need to be parsed, and memory needs
to be allocated for the PK context.
The server-side routine `ssl_decrypt_encrypted_pms()` is
responsible for decrypting the RSA-encrypted PMS in case of
an RSA-based ciphersuite.
Previously, the code checked that the length of the PMS sent
by the client matches the bit length of the RSA key. This commit
removes this check -- thereby removing the need to access the
server's own CRT -- because the RSA decryption routine performs
this check itself, too.
`mbedtls_x509_name` and `mbedtls_x509_sequence` are dynamically allocated
linked lists that need a loop to free properly. Introduce a static helper
function to do that and use it in `mbedtls_x509_crt_free()`, where the
CRT's issuer and subject names (of type `mbedtls_x509_name`) and the
SubjectAlternativeName and ExtendedKeyUsage extensions (of type
`mbedtls_x509_sequence`) need freeing. Increases code-clarity and saves
a few bytes of flash.
If `MBEDTLS_SSL_KEEP_PEER_CERTIFICATE` is not set, `mbedtls_ssl_session`
contains the digest of the peer's certificate for the sole purpose of
detecting a CRT change on renegotiation. Hence, it is not needed if
renegotiation is disabled.
This commit removes the `peer_cert_digest` fields (and friends) from
`mbedtls_ssl_session` if
`!MBEDTLS_SSL_KEEP_PEER_CERTIFICATE + !MBEDTLS_SSL_RENEGOTIATION`,
which is a sensible configuration for constrained devices.
Apart from straightforward replacements of
`if !defined(MBEDTLS_SSL_KEEP_PEER_CERTIFICATE)`
by
`if !defined(MBEDTLS_SSL_KEEP_PEER_CERTIFICATE) && \
defined(MBEDTLS_SSL_RENEGOTIATION)`,
there's one notable change: On the server-side, the CertificateVerify
parsing function is a no-op if the client hasn't sent a certificate.
So far, this was determined by either looking at the peer CRT or the
peer CRT digest in the SSL session structure (depending on the setting
of `MBEDTLS_SSL_KEEP_PEER_CERTIFICATE`), which now no longer works if
`MBEDTLS_SSL_KEEP_PEER_CERTIFICATE` is unset. Instead, this function
now checks whether the temporary copy of the peer's public key within
the handshake structure is initialized or not (which is also a
beneficial simplification in its own right, because the pubkey is
all the function needs anyway).
The previous placing of the return statement made it look like there
are configurations for which no return statement is emitted; while
that's not true (if this function is used, at least some version of
TLS must be enabled), it's still clearer to move the failing return
statement to outside of all preprocessor guards.
So far, `ssl_client2` printed the CRT info for the peer's CRT
by requesting the latter through `mbedtls_ssl_get_peer_cert()`
at the end of the handshake, and printing it via
`mbedtls_x509_crt_info()`. When `MBEDTLS_SSL_KEEP_PEER_CERTIFICATE`
is disabled, this does no longer work because the peer's CRT
isn't stored beyond the handshake.
This makes some tests in `ssl-opt.sh` fail which rely on the CRT
info output for the peer certificate.
This commit modifies `ssl_client2` to extract the peer CRT info
from the verification callback, which is always called at a time
when the peer's CRT is available. This way, the peer's CRT info
is still printed if `MBEDTLS_SSL_KEEP_PEER_CERTIFICATE` is disabled.
`MBEDTLS_SSL__ECP_RESTARTABLE` is only defined if
`MBEDTLS_KEY_EXCHANGE_ECDHE_ECDSA_ENABLED` is set, which
requires `MBEDTLS_X509_PARSE_C` to be set (this is checked
in `check_config.`). The additional `MBEDTLS_X509_PARSE_C`
guard around the `ecrs_peer_cert` field is therefore not
necessary; moreover, it's misleading, because it hasn't
been used consistently throughout the code.
If we don't need to store the peer's CRT chain permanently, we may
free it immediately after verifying it. Moreover, since we parse the
CRT chain in-place from the input buffer in this case, pointers from
the CRT structure remain valid after freeing the structure, and we
use that to extract the digest and pubkey from the CRT after freeing
the structure.
It is used in `mbedtls_ssl_session_free()` under
`MBEDTLS_X509_CRT_PARSE_C`, but defined only if
`MBEDTLS_KEY_EXCHANGE__WITH_CERT__ENABLED`.
Issue #2422 tracks the use of
`MBEDTLS_KEY_EXCHANGE__WITH_CERT_ENABLED` instead of
`MBEDTLS_X509_CRT_PARSE_C` for code and fields
related to CRT-based ciphersuites.
