Problem
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mbedtls_strerror is a utility function which converts an mbedTLS error code
into a human readable string. It requires the caller to allocate a buffer every
time an error code needs to be converted to a string. It is an overkill and a
waste of RAM for resource constrained microcontrollers - where the most common
use case is to use these strings for logging.
Solution
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The proposed commit adds two functions:
* const char * mbedtls_high_level_strerr( int error_code );
* const char * mbedtls_low_level_strerr( int error_code );
The above two functions convert the high level and low level parts of an mbedTLS
error code to human readable strings. They return a const pointer to an
unmodifiable string which is not supposed to be modified by the caller and only
to be used for logging purposes. The caller no longer needs to allocate a
buffer.
Backward Compatibility
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The proposed change is completely backward compatible as it does not change
the existing mbedtls_strerror function and ensures that it continues to behave
the same way.
Signed-off-by: Gaurav Aggarwal <aggarg@amazon.com>
This reverts commit 356acc82ad.
Conflicts:
* scripts/generate_errors.pl: a line adjacent to a changed line has
independently changed in the meantime. Just revert the change done
in the commit that's being reverted.
One of the error codes was already reserved, this commit just makes it
explicit. The other one is a new error code for initializing return
values in the library: `MBEDTLS_ERR_ERROR_CORRUPTION_DETECTED` should
not be returned by the library. If it is returned, then it is surely a
bug in the library or somebody is tampering with the device.
* development: (182 commits)
Change the library version to 2.11.0
Fix version in ChangeLog for fix for #552
Add ChangeLog entry for clang version fix. Issue #1072
Compilation warning fixes on 32b platfrom with IAR
Revert "Turn on MBEDTLS_SSL_ASYNC_PRIVATE by default"
Fix for missing len var when XTS config'd and CTR not
ssl_server2: handle mbedtls_x509_dn_gets failure
Fix harmless use of uninitialized memory in ssl_parse_encrypted_pms
SSL async tests: add a few test cases for error in decrypt
Fix memory leak in ssl_server2 with SNI + async callback
SNI + SSL async callback: make all keys async
ssl_async_resume: free the operation context on error
ssl_server2: get op_name from context in ssl_async_resume as well
Clarify "as directed here" in SSL async callback documentation
SSL async callbacks documentation: clarify resource cleanup
Async callback: use mbedtls_pk_check_pair to compare keys
Rename mbedtls_ssl_async_{get,set}_data for clarity
Fix copypasta in the async callback documentation
SSL async callback: cert is not always from mbedtls_ssl_conf_own_cert
ssl_async_set_key: detect if ctx->slots overflows
...
* development: (97 commits)
Updated version number to 2.10.0 for release
Add a disabled CMAC define in the no-entropy configuration
Adapt the ARIA test cases for new ECB function
Fix file permissions for ssl.h
Add ChangeLog entry for PR#1651
Fix MicroBlaze register typo.
Fix typo in doc and copy missing warning
Fix edit mistake in cipher_wrap.c
Update CTR doc for the 64-bit block cipher
Update CTR doc for other 128-bit block ciphers
Slightly tune ARIA CTR documentation
Remove double declaration of mbedtls_ssl_list_ciphersuites
Update CTR documentation
Use zeroize function from new platform_util
Move to new header style for ALT implementations
Add ifdef for selftest in header file
Fix typo in comments
Use more appropriate type for local variable
Remove useless parameter from function
Wipe sensitive info from the stack
...
While the old name is explicit and aligned with the RFC, it's also very long,
so with the mbedtls_ prefix prepended we get a 31-char prefix to each
identifier, which quickly conflicts with our 80-column policy.
The new name is shorter, it's what a lot of people use when speaking about
that construction anyway, and hopefully should not introduce confusion at
it seems unlikely that variants other than 20/1305 be standardised in the
foreseeable future.
This implementation is based off the description in RFC 7539.
The ChaCha20 code is also updated to provide a means of generating
keystream blocks with arbitrary counter values. This is used to
generated the one-time Poly1305 key in the AEAD construction.
* development: (504 commits)
Fix minor code style issues
Add the uodate to the soversion to the ChangeLog
Fix the ChangeLog for clarity, english and credit
Update version to 2.9.0
ecp: Fix binary compatibility with group ID
Changelog entry
Change accepted ciphersuite versions when parsing server hello
Remove preprocessor directives around platform_util.h include
Fix style for mbedtls_mpi_zeroize()
Improve mbedtls_platform_zeroize() docs
mbedtls_zeroize -> mbedtls_platform_zeroize in docs
Reword config.h docs for MBEDTLS_PLATFORM_ZEROIZE_ALT
Organize CMakeLists targets in alphabetical order
Organize output objs in alfabetical order in Makefile
Regenerate errors after ecp.h updates
Update ecp.h
Change variable bytes_written to header_bytes in record decompression
Update ecp.h
Update ecp.h
Update ecp.h
...
Add MBEDTLS_ERR_XXX_HW_ACCEL_FAILED error codes for all cryptography
modules where the software implementation can be replaced by a hardware
implementation.
This does not include the individual message digest modules since they
currently have no way to return error codes.
This does include the higher-level md, cipher and pk modules since
alternative implementations and even algorithms can be plugged in at
runtime.
Change the script generate_errors.pl to call the grep function in Perl
instead of calling the external tool grep directly as this causes
problems when ANSI escape sequences are included in the grep output
string.
The library/net.c and its corresponding include/mbedtls/net.h file are
renamed to library/net_sockets.c and include/mbedtls/net_sockets.h
respectively. This is to avoid naming collisions in projects which also
have files with the common name 'net'.
The SHA4 name was not clear with regards to the new SHA-3 standard. So
SHA2 and SHA4 have been renamed to better represent what they are:
SHA256 and SHA512 modules.
