diff options
author | Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> | 2014-01-29 05:27:54 -0200 |
---|---|---|
committer | Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> | 2014-01-29 05:27:54 -0200 |
commit | 7616763710afe030ebf5268412cf689cb8e18685 (patch) | |
tree | 0b088e97df6a7b1bed73178c6532a76a9fe37343 | |
parent | e567f2a0b4ca0350e3877e4199820dffc634d983 (diff) | |
download | glibc-7616763710afe030ebf5268412cf689cb8e18685.zip glibc-7616763710afe030ebf5268412cf689cb8e18685.tar.gz glibc-7616763710afe030ebf5268412cf689cb8e18685.tar.bz2 |
* manual/crypt.texi: Document MTASC-safety properties.
-rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | manual/crypt.texi | 30 |
2 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ 2014-01-29 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> + * manual/crypt.texi: Document MTASC-safety properties. + +2014-01-29 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> + * manual/conf.texi: Document MTASC-safety properties. 2014-01-29 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> diff --git a/manual/crypt.texi b/manual/crypt.texi index 9c65b95..fd007cf 100644 --- a/manual/crypt.texi +++ b/manual/crypt.texi @@ -99,6 +99,13 @@ in a convenient way. @comment unistd.h @comment BSD @deftypefun {char *} getpass (const char *@var{prompt}) +@safety{@prelim{}@mtunsafe{@mtasuterm{}}@asunsafe{@ascuheap{} @asulock{} @asucorrupt{}}@acunsafe{@acuterm{} @aculock{} @acucorrupt{}}} +@c This function will attempt to create a stream for terminal I/O, but +@c will fallback to stdio/stderr. It attempts to change the terminal +@c mode in a thread-unsafe way, write out the prompt, read the password, +@c then restore the terminal mode. It has a cleanup to close the stream +@c in case of (synchronous) cancellation, but not to restore the +@c terminal mode. @code{getpass} outputs @var{prompt}, then reads a string in from the terminal without echoing it. It tries to connect to the real terminal, @@ -134,6 +141,13 @@ The substitute takes the same parameters as @code{getline} @comment crypt.h @comment BSD, SVID @deftypefun {char *} crypt (const char *@var{key}, const char *@var{salt}) +@safety{@prelim{}@mtunsafe{@mtasurace{:crypt}}@asunsafe{@asucorrupt{} @asulock{} @ascuheap{} @ascudlopen{}}@acunsafe{@aculock{} @acsmem{}}} +@c Besides the obvious problem of returning a pointer into static +@c storage, the DES initializer takes an internal lock with the usual +@c set of problems for AS- and AC-Safety. The FIPS mode checker and the +@c NSS implementations of may leak file descriptors if canceled. The +@c The MD5, SHA256 and SHA512 implementations will malloc on long keys, +@c and NSS relies on dlopening, which brings about another can of worms. The @code{crypt} function takes a password, @var{key}, as a string, and a @var{salt} character array which is described below, and returns a @@ -195,6 +209,9 @@ for a password and prints ``Access granted.'' if the user types @comment crypt.h @comment GNU @deftypefun {char *} crypt_r (const char *@var{key}, const char *@var{salt}, {struct crypt_data *} @var{data}) +@safety{@prelim{}@mtsafe{}@asunsafe{@asucorrupt{} @asulock{} @ascuheap{} @ascudlopen{}}@acunsafe{@aculock{} @acsmem{}}} +@c Compared with crypt, this function fixes the @mtasurace:crypt +@c problem, but nothing else. The @code{crypt_r} function does the same thing as @code{crypt}, but takes an extra parameter which includes space for its result (among @@ -241,6 +258,11 @@ specifies the unused bits. @comment crypt.h @comment BSD, SVID @deftypefun void setkey (const char *@var{key}) +@safety{@prelim{}@mtunsafe{@mtasurace{:crypt}}@asunsafe{@asucorrupt{} @asulock{}}@acunsafe{@aculock{}}} +@c The static buffer stores the key, making it fundamentally +@c thread-unsafe. The locking issues are only in the initialization +@c path; cancelling the initialization will leave the lock held, it +@c would otherwise repeat the initialization on the next call. The @code{setkey} function sets an internal data structure to be an expanded form of @var{key}. @var{key} is specified as an array of 64 @@ -252,6 +274,8 @@ parity. @comment crypt.h @comment BSD, SVID @deftypefun void encrypt (char *@var{block}, int @var{edflag}) +@safety{@prelim{}@mtunsafe{@mtasurace{:crypt}}@asunsafe{@asucorrupt{} @asulock{}}@acunsafe{@aculock{}}} +@c Same issues as setkey. The @code{encrypt} function encrypts @var{block} if @var{edflag} is 0, otherwise it decrypts @var{block}, using a key @@ -265,9 +289,11 @@ stored in a @code{char}, but there are no parity bits in @var{block}. @comment crypt.h @comment GNU @deftypefun void setkey_r (const char *@var{key}, {struct crypt_data *} @var{data}) +@c @safety{@prelim{}@mtsafe{}@asunsafe{@asucorrupt{} @asulock{}}@acunsafe{@aculock{}}} @comment crypt.h @comment GNU @deftypefunx void encrypt_r (char *@var{block}, int @var{edflag}, {struct crypt_data *} @var{data}) +@safety{@prelim{}@mtsafe{}@asunsafe{@asucorrupt{} @asulock{}}@acunsafe{@aculock{}}} These are reentrant versions of @code{setkey} and @code{encrypt}. The only difference is the extra parameter, which stores the expanded @@ -282,6 +308,7 @@ defined in @file{crypt.h}. @comment rpc/des_crypt.h @comment SUNRPC @deftypefun int ecb_crypt (char *@var{key}, char *@var{blocks}, unsigned @var{len}, unsigned @var{mode}) +@safety{@prelim{}@mtsafe{}@assafe{}@acsafe{}} The function @code{ecb_crypt} encrypts or decrypts one or more blocks using DES. Each block is encrypted independently. @@ -356,6 +383,7 @@ is not a multiple of 8 or @var{len} is larger than @code{DES_MAXDATA}. @comment rpc/des_crypt.h @comment SUNRPC @deftypefun int DES_FAILED (int @var{err}) +@safety{@prelim{}@mtsafe{}@assafe{}@acsafe{}} This macro returns 1 if @var{err} is a `success' result code from @code{ecb_crypt} or @code{cbc_crypt}, and 0 otherwise. @end deftypefun @@ -363,6 +391,7 @@ This macro returns 1 if @var{err} is a `success' result code from @comment rpc/des_crypt.h @comment SUNRPC @deftypefun int cbc_crypt (char *@var{key}, char *@var{blocks}, unsigned @var{len}, unsigned @var{mode}, char *@var{ivec}) +@safety{@prelim{}@mtsafe{}@assafe{}@acsafe{}} The function @code{cbc_crypt} encrypts or decrypts one or more blocks using DES in Cipher Block Chaining mode. @@ -389,6 +418,7 @@ Otherwise, all the parameters are similar to those for @code{ecb_crypt}. @comment rpc/des_crypt.h @comment SUNRPC @deftypefun void des_setparity (char *@var{key}) +@safety{@prelim{}@mtsafe{}@assafe{}@acsafe{}} The function @code{des_setparity} changes the 64-bit @var{key}, stored packed in 8-bit bytes, to have odd parity by altering the low bits of |