fix: report a client credential a TLS stream cannot present, and keep delivering - #788
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…d keep delivering A certificate without its key, a key that does not match it, and a PEM that will not load each failed SSL_CTX creation, so Open failed and nothing was delivered until the configuration was corrected. docs/tls.md asks for the fault to be reported with delivery continuing: the collector is the enforcement point for our own credential - one that requires a client certificate refuses the handshake anyway, and one that does not was never going to check - so blocking denied the audit trail without changing what the collector decides. Continuing is safe because OpenSSL presents a certificate only where both halves are installed and paired. ssl_has_cert requires x509 and privatekey together (ssl/ssl_local.h, 3.6.2), so a context carrying half a credential sends an empty certificate list rather than a partial one. Three detail codes rather than one, appended before _MAX and never inserted, so a handler compiled against the old header keeps its numbering: a half-supplied pair, a pair OpenSSL refuses, and a credential that will not load want different responses from the integrator. A same-type mismatch is refused inside SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file, which checks the key against the certificate already installed, so it is reported as one that would not install; the explicit pairing check is reached only by a cross-type pair. ConfigureClientIdentity returns void, which is the statement that no credential fault reaches Open's result, and leaves the && chain in ConfigureSslContext. Identity is still configured after the trust anchors and only when they succeeded, so a credential WARNING is not raised on a context about to be discarded. Two intent-naming predicates carry the Mbed TLS adapter's names, so the two read alike where they now behave alike. The integration test that asserted a local failure on a mismatched pair now asserts the connection, against real OpenSSL and a real mismatched RSA pair. The server there does not ask for a client certificate; the case where it does is already covered. CHECK_ERROR_EVENT in Tests/Support/TestUtils.h gains the severity axis and a CHECK_ERROR_REPORTED_ONCE sibling, and this file's five hand-rolled assertion blocks use them. The macro was already there with no call sites; the ~125 sites elsewhere follow in a chore. Part of #782.
…ential Reverses the half of #785 that failed Open when mbedtls_ssl_conf_own_cert returned an error. That drew the line between a configuration mistake and a resource fault; the contract draws it between our own credential and the peer's identity, so both now report and continue. The same fault is indistinguishable on the OpenSSL side - a failed PEM load and a failed allocation surface as one return code - so leaving this one blocking would have left the two adapters differing on an event neither can tell apart. Continuing is safe: ssl_append_key_cert returns MBEDTLS_ERR_SSL_ALLOC_FAILED before the key_cert node is appended (library/ssl_tls.c, 3.6.2), so nothing is installed and the connection continues server-authenticated, exactly as the OpenSSL adapter's does. ApplyTlsPolicy returns void again and leaves Open's chain. The severity moves with it, to the WARNING and CAT_BAD_CONFIG that docs/error-severity.md gives a component that was built and is delivering. Rating a resource fault BAD_CONFIG is the one cost of collapsing the two paths, and the detail code still separates them for a handler that wants to retry one and not the other. docs/tls.md states the rule both adapters now share, and its client-credential obligation covers the third failure mode rather than two. The divergence note comes off the OpenSSL platform page, and its setup page no longer says a half-supplied credential is rejected at Open. Part of #782.
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Included review availability: 1 review is currently available. Your included PR review attempts over the past 7 days set your current allowance at 5 reviews per hour. WalkthroughClient credential faults no longer abort TLS stream opening. Mbed TLS and OpenSSL report warnings and continue with server-authenticated TLS. Tests, documentation, and MISRA suppression references now reflect this behaviour. ChangesClient credential fallback
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The change reports client-credential problems while allowing delivery to continue, with the supplied test suites passing; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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Application->>SolidSyslogStream_Open: open TLS stream
SolidSyslogStream_Open->>CredentialConfiguration: load and validate client credentials
CredentialConfiguration->>ErrorHandler: report credential warning when installation fails
SolidSyslogStream_Open->>TLSPeer: establish server-authenticated TLS
TLSPeer-->>SolidSyslogStream_Open: complete TLS negotiation
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SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_filerejects this same-type mismatched key, soOpenSslStream_LoadClientCredentialemitsSOLIDSYSLOG_OPENSSL_STREAM_ERROR_CLIENT_CREDENTIAL_NOT_INSTALLED....MISMATCHEDis emitted only afterSSL_CTX_check_private_keyfails. Install a local handler withSolidSyslog_SetErrorHandlerand assert the event, or rename the test and comment to describe the not-installed path.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@Tests/SolidSyslogOpenSslStreamTest.cpp`:
- Around line 1037-1047: Update the SolidSyslogOpenSslStream test fixture to add
a WireClientCredential helper that assigns the certificate and key paths, clears
ServerName, and recreates the stream via ReCreateStreamWithUpdatedConfig.
Replace the repeated credential setup in the affected tests, including
OpenMakesNoClientIdentityCallsWhenOnlyClientKeyIsSet, and use the helper instead
of hand-rolled destroy/create logic so fixture reset and error-handler
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In `@Tests/OpenSslIntegration/SolidSyslogOpenSslStreamIntegrationTest.cpp`:
- Around line 230-252: Update
OpenSslStreamIntegration.MutualTlsConnectsServerAuthenticatedWhenClientKeyDoesNotMatchCert
to assert the credential error emitted when loading the mismatched key: install
a local SolidSyslog_SetErrorHandler handler and verify
SOLIDSYSLOG_OPENSSL_STREAM_ERROR_CLIENT_CREDENTIAL_NOT_INSTALLED. If this test
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rename the test and its comment to describe the not-installed credential path
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Wording only - every claim, section and cross-reference is unchanged.
The page had drifted into aphorism ("a SIEM that is blind now cannot alert now",
"a pin excuses the chain, not the clock") and rhetorical construction ("the
moment the reporting matters most is the moment the device is under attack"). A
contract page is read by someone assessing the library against a standard, and
that register makes it harder to check a claim, not easier.
Two sentences that carried no claim are cut rather than rewritten. Two headings
lose the second person, and the first person plural this branch introduced -
"our credential", "the material we present" - becomes the client, the Stream or
the integrator, matching the third person the rest of the page uses.
One correction rather than a rewording: the replacement for "everything else
leaves you talking to the peer you trusted" first read "leaves the peer verified
and the connection sound", which overstates it. A stream that reports an
undeclared peer identity has a chain-verified but unidentified peer, so the
sentence now says the peer still passes the checks the integrator configured.
Part of #782.
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- Line 321: Update the connection-failure rule near the setup/first-use guidance
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Two findings from the review of #788, both test-only. The mutual-TLS integration test now asserts the event, not just the connection. It captures through SolidSyslog_SetErrorHandler directly - this suite links no ErrorHandlerFake, being built against the real libssl - and pins CLIENT_CREDENTIAL_NOT_INSTALLED. That was worth doing for a reason the review did not give: which of the two codes a real mismatch produces was claimed in a comment and a commit message and asserted nowhere. Both test certs are RSA, so OpenSSL refuses the pair inside SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file and the explicit pairing check is never reached. The name stays as it is: it describes the scenario an integrator creates, not the branch the adapter takes. A WireClientCredential fixture helper replaces fifteen arrange blocks, matching the Mbed TLS group's helper. It also removes the second recreation idiom from these tests: the hand-rolled Destroy + Create skipped the fake and error-handler reset that ReCreateStreamWithUpdatedConfig performs, which is drift waiting to bite. Twenty-five hand-rolled sites remain elsewhere in the file, older than this branch and left for the sweep that follows this pull request. Part of #782.
Check the configuration it cannot work without said that credentials which cannot be produced fail the connection attempt. That was true when it was written and this branch made it false: a client credential that cannot be loaded or installed is now reported with delivery continuing, which the same page states two sections earlier. A contract page that contradicts itself is worse than one that is merely out of date, because either half can be quoted. The rule now names what the connection actually depends on - trust anchors, and a well-formed fingerprint - and the client credential is called out as checked at the same point without failing the connection, pointing at the obligation that explains why rather than restating it. Found by CodeRabbit on the previous push. Part of #782.
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test_file=$(fd -a '^SolidSyslogOpenSslStreamIntegrationTest\.cpp$' . | head -n 1)
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* chore: sweep the error-event assertions onto the shared macros CHECK_ERROR_EVENT has been in Tests/Support/TestUtils.h since it was written and had no call sites, while 136 blocks across 47 files hand-rolled the same four assertions. #788 gave it the severity axis and a CHECK_ERROR_REPORTED_ONCE sibling and converted five sites; this converts the rest. 122 blocks were the identical shape - count, severity, source, category, detail, in that order - and became CHECK_ERROR_REPORTED_ONCE mechanically. Ten file-local macros wrapped the same block with a fixed source: five copies of CHECK_REPORTED in the lwIP tests, four of CHECK_REPORTED_ERROR in the policy tests, and CHECK_STREAMSENDER_BAD_SETUP_ERROR. Each now delegates to the shared macro rather than restating it, as CHECK_OPEN_UNWOUND_WITH_SEVERITY already does in both stream test files. Two sites assert the second of two events, where pinning the count at ONCE would be wrong. They use CHECK_ERROR_EVENT with their own CALLED_FAKE(..., TWICE) left above it, which is what the two macros were split for. Three sites asserted a subset - one without a source, two without a source or a severity - and were invisible to a survey anchored on the source assertion. They now assert all four axes, with the missing values read from the emit site rather than assumed: BlockStore's WARNING, the POSIX message-queue buffer's ERROR, and CRITICAL for the UDP sender's null-buffer argument check, which its own sibling test already asserted. Those five new checks pass, so no drift was hiding there. One assertion is deliberately left hand-rolled: SolidSyslogErrorTest also checks LastContext(), which no shared macro covers, and it sits after the converted block. The sweep does not shrink the test code - it adds about seventy lines, because a four-argument call wraps where five short assertions did not. What it buys is one assertion shape, a severity axis asserted everywhere rather than in most places, and one place to change if the event gains a field. Tests only; no production source is touched. 1496 unit tests, 3589 checks - five more than before, being the axes the three partial sites had never asserted - and 22 of 22 suites including both integration lanes. * test: leave one recreate idiom in the OpenSSL stream tests The file carried two ways to swap the config and rebuild the stream: seven tests hand-rolled Destroy + Create, while their neighbours called ReCreateStreamWithUpdatedConfig. The two are not equivalent - the helper also rebuilds the transport fake and reinstalls the error handler, so counts start from the recreate - and nothing in the file said which to reach for. The seven now call the helper. All seven were the same arrange shape: destroy, set one config field, create. None arranged fake state before recreating, which is what would have changed meaning rather than failing; CipherListFailureFreesCtx forces its fake after the create, which is the order the helper requires and already had. The remaining Destroy calls in test bodies stay. In all seven of those, Destroy is the action under test - freeing the SSL, the BIO method, the context, closing a still-open transport - and one re-creates afterwards so teardown targets a live slot rather than a stale handle. This is scoped to the one file that had both idioms. The hand-rolled form is used in 36 other test files, consistently within each, and converting those would need a helper per fixture and individual judgement at the seven sites tree-wide that do arrange fakes first. 1496 unit tests, 3589 checks, 22 of 22 suites.
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Purpose
Part of #782. Closes the
behaviour #734 describes:
OpenSslStream_ConfigureClientIdentityrejected a half-supplied client credential,which failed
SSL_CTXcreation, soOpenfailed and nothing was delivered untilthe configuration was corrected.
docs/tls.mdasks for that to be reported with delivery continuing. The collectoris the enforcement point for our own credential - one that requires a client
certificate refuses the handshake anyway, and one that does not was never going to
check - so blocking denied the audit trail without changing what the collector
decides.
No
Closeskeyword: per #782, intermediate pull requests intofeature/tls-reworkcarry none, and the closing keywords for the whole epic go in the final
branch-to-
mainpull request.Two departures from #734 as written, both agreed in session
The scope is all three credential failure modes, not just the half-supplied
one. #734's acceptance names only a certificate without its key. But the same
contract paragraph covers a key that does not match its certificate, and OpenSSL
cannot separate a same-type mismatch from an unreadable file - both surface as
SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_filereturning 0. Fixing one and leaving the others wouldhave left an undocumented divergence in place of the documented one.
It reverses half of #785.
That drew the line between a configuration mistake and a resource fault, failing
Openfor the latter. The contract draws it between our own credential and thepeer's identity. Since OpenSSL cannot tell an allocation failure from a bad path,
keeping Mbed TLS strict would have left the two adapters differing on an event
neither can distinguish. The rule is now one line, and holds on both: a fault in
the material we present never stops delivery; a failed check on the peer always
does.
Change Description
Every fault in the client credential now reports
WARNINGwithCAT_BAD_CONFIGand connects server-authenticated.
Continuing is safe, and that was verified against the library sources rather
than assumed. OpenSSL presents a certificate only where both halves are
installed and paired -
ssl_has_certrequiresx509andprivatekeytogether(
ssl/ssl_local.h, 3.6.2) - so a context carrying half a credential sends anempty certificate list, not a partial one. On the Mbed TLS side,
ssl_append_key_certreturnsMBEDTLS_ERR_SSL_ALLOC_FAILEDbefore thekey_certnode is appended (library/ssl_tls.c, 3.6.2), so nothing is lefthalf-configured there either.
Three detail codes on the OpenSSL adapter, appended before
_MAXand neverinserted, so a handler compiled against the old header keeps its numbering. A
half-supplied pair, a pair OpenSSL refuses, and a credential that will not load
want different responses. A same-type mismatch is refused inside
SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file, which checks the key against the certificatealready installed, so it is reported as one that would not install; the explicit
pairing check is reached only by a cross-type pair. That is stated in a comment
where the reader would otherwise wonder why the check looks redundant.
ConfigureClientIdentityandApplyTlsPolicyboth returnvoid, which is thestatement that no credential fault reaches
Open's result. On the OpenSSL sideidentity is still configured after the trust anchors and only when they
succeeded, so a credential
WARNINGis never raised on a context about to bediscarded.
The one cost, stated plainly
CAT_BAD_CONFIGtells a handler an engineer must change something, which is trueof a bad path and only loosely true of a memory failure - though on these targets
running out of memory installing a credential is close to a build-sizing fault.
The detail code still separates them for a handler that wants to retry one and
not the other. That is the price of one rule instead of two, and it looks worth
paying.
Test Evidence
Red-green-refactor, each red confirmed before any production code:
OpenSucceedsWhenOnlyClientCertIsSetfailed onCHECK_TRUE(Open).Green by installing only when both halves are present.
OpenReportsIncompleteClientCredentialWhenClientKeyIsNullfailed tocompile on the missing detail code. Green with the report. The mirror test
passed on arrival, because the condition was already symmetric - stated here
rather than presented as a cycle it was not.
OpenReportsMismatchedClientCredentialWhenCheckPrivateKeyFailsfailed to compile, then green by taking the pairing check off
ok.OpenReportsClientCredentialNotInstalledWhenCertChainWillNotLoadfailed to compile, then green by taking the load result off
oktoo.OpenReportsClientCredentialNotInstalledAndStillConnectson the MbedTLS side failed on
CHECK_TRUE(Open). Green by dropping the severity andleaving
Open's chain.Six tests asserting the old behaviour flipped, and four
...FreesCtxsiblingswere deleted: they asserted a teardown on paths that no longer tear anything down.
The integration test is the load-bearing evidence.
MutualTls...WhenClientKey DoesNotMatchCertasserted a local failure; it now asserts the connection, againstreal OpenSSL with a real mismatched RSA pair written to disk. It also confirms the
code path - both test certs are RSA, so the mismatch is refused inside the load
rather than by the explicit pairing check.
That 22 includes both integration suites against the real libraries. Mbed TLS is
excluded from the
debugpreset in thegccimage, so its tests were built infreertos-hostagainst a freshbuild/debug-mbedtls.Tier B, since production source changed:
clang-format -iover the touched files,then
scripts/misra_renumber.py --applyfor the five suppression lines the newcode shifted, re-run clean afterwards. No new findings. markdownlint clean on the
three changed pages.
Areas Affected
Platform/OpenSsl/- the stream source, and three appended members onSolidSyslogOpenSslStreamErrors.h.Platform/MbedTls/-ApplyTlsPolicyand itscall site. Public header change is additive; no integrator source change.
Tests/Support/TestUtils.h-CHECK_ERROR_EVENTgains the severity axis and aCHECK_ERROR_REPORTED_ONCEsibling. The macro was already there with no callsites, while ~125 sites across 48 files hand-roll the same assertions. This pull
request converts the five in the OpenSSL stream tests and rebuilds
CHECK_OPEN_UNWOUND_WITH_SEVERITYon top; a chore sweeping the rest followsimmediately after this merges.
docs/tls.mdstates the shared rule and widens the client-credential obligationto the third failure mode.
docs/platforms/openssl/index.mdloses the divergencenote.
docs/platforms/openssl/setup.mdno longer says a half-supplied credentialis rejected at
Open- it said the opposite of what the code now does - and itssix em dashes are converted, per the docs convention for a page being edited.
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