stunnel/SOURCES/stunnel-5.72-speed-up-loading-client-CA-list.patch

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From 5f0b818f62720d5bd8b8c9c631604ddb4c992be7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Clemens Lang <cllang@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 15:35:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] src/verify.c: Speed up loading client CA list
Do not attempt to load and print all trusted CAs unless we need them to
invoke SSL_CTX_set_client_CA_list(3). Loading all trusted CAs can be
slow, especially if there are many. The CAdir format allows OpenSSL to
only load them on demand, avoiding this overhead.
Additionally, SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations(3) supports file formats
that SSL_load_client_CA_file(3) and SSL_add_*_cert_subjects_to_stack(3)
do not support, for example certificates in the BEGIN TRUSTED
CERTIFICATE format. Valid configurations with older stunnel versions
that point to such a file would otherwise needlessly start failing.
Additionally, use SSL_load_client_CA_file(3) to load certificates from
a file rather than SSL_add_file_cert_subjects_to_stack(3), since the
former uses a hashtable for deduplication, but the latter relies on
a sorted STACK_OF(X509_NAME). The sorting is exceptionally slow in
OpenSSL, because the comparison function for X509_NAMEs converts them to
DER involving a memory allocation, which is already expensive, but even
more expensive when used with stunnel's custom allocator functions.
An upstream PR openssl/openssl#25056 will eventually fix this, but it
will take quite a while for this to arrive on users' systems, and it
will likely not be backported into older affected versions of OpenSSL or
their forks.
Related: RHEL-50154
Related: RHEL-46411
Signed-off-by: Clemens Lang <cllang@redhat.com>
---
src/verify.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/verify.c b/src/verify.c
index 56ab130..d1d3849 100644
--- a/src/verify.c
+++ b/src/verify.c
@@ -95,10 +95,35 @@ NOEXPORT int init_ca(SERVICE_OPTIONS *section) {
if(!SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations(section->ctx,
section->ca_file, section->ca_dir)) {
sslerror("SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations");
+ return 1; /* FAILED */
}
}
- ca_dn=sk_X509_NAME_new_null();
+ /* Do not attempt to load and print all trusted CAs unless we need them to
+ invoke SSL_CTX_set_client_CA_list(3). Loading all trusted CAs can be
+ slow, especially if there are many. The CAdir format allows OpenSSL to
+ only load them on demand.
+ Additionally, SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations(3) supports file formats
+ that SSL_load_client_CA_file(3) and SSL_add_*_cert_subjects_to_stack(3)
+ do not support, for example certificates in the BEGIN TRUSTED
+ CERTIFICATE format. Valid configurations with older stunnel versions
+ that point to such a file would otherwise needlessly start failing. */
+ if(section->option.client)
+ return 0; /* OK */
+
+ if(section->ca_file)
+ /* SSL_load_client_CA_file is a lot faster than
+ SSL_add_file_cert_subjects_to_stack(). Use it for ca_file if
+ specified, then add the rest of the certificates to this stack. */
+ ca_dn=SSL_load_client_CA_file(section->ca_file);
+
+ if (!ca_dn)
+ /* ca_file not set, or SSL_load_client_CA_file(3) failed. */
+ ca_dn=sk_X509_NAME_new_null();
+
+ /* client CA list initialization from directory */
+ if(section->ca_dir)
+ SSL_add_dir_cert_subjects_to_stack(ca_dn, section->ca_dir);
#ifndef OPENSSL_NO_ENGINE
/* CA and client CA list initialization with the engine */
@@ -115,24 +140,13 @@ NOEXPORT int init_ca(SERVICE_OPTIONS *section) {
}
#endif
- /* client CA list initialization with the file and/or directory */
- if(section->ca_file)
- SSL_add_file_cert_subjects_to_stack(ca_dn, section->ca_file);
- if(section->ca_dir)
- SSL_add_dir_cert_subjects_to_stack(ca_dn, section->ca_dir);
-
if(!sk_X509_NAME_num(ca_dn)) {
sk_X509_NAME_pop_free(ca_dn, X509_NAME_free);
return 1; /* FAILED */
}
- if(section->option.client) {
- print_CA_list("Configured trusted server CA", ca_dn);
- sk_X509_NAME_pop_free(ca_dn, X509_NAME_free);
- } else { /* only set the client CA list on the server */
- print_CA_list("Configured trusted client CA", ca_dn);
- SSL_CTX_set_client_CA_list(section->ctx, ca_dn);
- }
+ print_CA_list("Configured trusted client CA", ca_dn);
+ SSL_CTX_set_client_CA_list(section->ctx, ca_dn);
return 0; /* OK */
}
--
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