The flag allows to suppress "ngx_slab_alloc() failed: no memory" messages
from a slab allocator, e.g., if an LRU expiration is used by a consumer
and allocation failures aren't fatal.
The flag is now used in the SSL session cache code, and in the limit_req
module.
Even during execution of a request it is possible that there will be
no session available, notably in case of renegotiation. As a result
logging of $ssl_session_id in some cases caused NULL pointer dereference
after revision 97e3769637a7 (1.5.9). The check added returns an empty
string if there is no session available.
Previously, it used to contain full session serialized instead of just
a session id, making it almost impossible to use the variable in a safe
way.
Thanks to Ivan Ristić.
If c->read->ready was reset, but later some data were read from a socket
buffer due to a call to ngx_ssl_recv(), the c->read->ready flag should
be restored if not all data were read from OpenSSL buffers (as kernel
won't notify us about the data anymore).
More details are available here:
http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2013-November/041178.html
In order to support key rollover, ssl_session_ticket_key can be defined
multiple times. The first key will be used to issue and resume Session
Tickets, while the rest will be used only to resume them.
ssl_session_ticket_key session_tickets/current.key;
ssl_session_ticket_key session_tickets/prev-1h.key;
ssl_session_ticket_key session_tickets/prev-2h.key;
Please note that nginx supports Session Tickets even without explicit
configuration of the keys and this feature should be only used in setups
where SSL traffic is distributed across multiple nginx servers.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Sikora <piotr@cloudflare.com>
The timeout set is used by OpenSSL as a hint for clients in TLS Session
Tickets. Previous code resulted in a default timeout (5m) used for TLS
Sessions Tickets if there was no session cache configured.
Prodded by Piotr Sikora.
The SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations() may leave errors in the error queue
while returning success (e.g. if there are duplicate certificates in the file
specified), resulting in "ignoring stale global SSL error" alerts later
at runtime.
While ngx_get_full_name() might have a bit more descriptive arguments,
the ngx_conf_full_name() is generally easier to use when parsing
configuration and limits exposure of cycle->prefix / cycle->conf_prefix
details.
In case of fully populated SSL session cache with no memory left for
new allocations, ngx_ssl_new_session() will try to expire the oldest
non-expired session and retry, but only in case when slab allocation
fails for "cached_sess", not when slab allocation fails for either
"sess_id" or "id", which can happen for number of reasons and results
in new session not being cached.
Patch fixes this by adding retry logic to "sess_id" & "id" allocations.
Patch by Piotr Sikora.
Missing calls to ngx_handle_write_event() and ngx_handle_read_event()
resulted in a CPU hog during SSL handshake if an level-triggered event
method (e.g. select) was used.
According to documentation, calling SSL_write() with num=0 bytes to be sent
results in undefined behavior.
We don't currently call ngx_ssl_send_chain() with empty chain and buffer.
This check handles the case of a chain with total data size that is
a multiple of NGX_SSL_BUFSIZE, and with the special buffer at the end.
In practice such cases resulted in premature connection close and critical
error "SSL_write() failed (SSL:)" in the error log.
The patch saves one EC_KEY_generate_key() call per server{} block by
informing OpenSSL about SSL_OP_SINGLE_ECDH_USE we are going to use before
the SSL_CTX_set_tmp_ecdh() call.
For a configuration file with 10k simple server{} blocks with SSL enabled
this change reduces startup time from 18s to 5s on a slow test box here.
This includes the ssl_stapling_responder directive (defaults to OCSP
responder set in certificate's AIA extension).
OCSP response for a given certificate is requested once we get at least
one connection with certificate_status extension in ClientHello, and
certificate status won't be sent in the connection in question. This due
to limitations in the OpenSSL API (certificate status callback is blocking).
Note: SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file() was reimplemented as it doesn't
allow to access the certificate loaded via SSL_CTX.
The directive allows to specify additional trusted Certificate Authority
certificates to be used during certificate verification. In contrast to
ssl_client_certificate DNs of these cerificates aren't sent to a client
during handshake.
Trusted certificates are loaded regardless of the fact whether client
certificates verification is enabled as the same certificates will be
used for OCSP stapling, during construction of an OCSP request and for
verification of an OCSP response.
The same applies to a CRL (which is now always loaded).
The SSL_COMP_get_compression_methods() is only available as an API
function in OpenSSL 0.9.8+, require it explicitly to unbreak build
with OpenSSL 0.9.7.
Previous code used sk_SSL_COMP_delete(ssl_comp_methods, i) while iterating
stack from 0 to n, resulting in removal of only even compression methods.
In real life this change is a nop, as there is only one compression method
which is enabled by default in OpenSSL.
Previous code incorrectly assumed that nodes with identical keys are linked
together. This might not be true after tree rebalance.
Patch by Lanshun Zhou.
It's already called by OPENSSL_config(). Calling it again causes some
openssl engines (notably GOST) to corrupt memory, as they don't expect
to be created more than once.
Support for TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 protocols was introduced in OpenSSL 1.0.1
(-beta1 was recently released). This change makes it possible to disable
these protocols and/or enable them without other protocols.
