When making a CRYPTO_BUFFER from a static, const buffer, there is no
need to make a copy of the data. Instead, we can reference it directly.
The hope is this will save a bit of memory in Chromium, since root store
certs will already in static data.
Moreover, by letting static CRYPTO_BUFFERs participate in pooling, we
can extend the memory savings to yet other copies of these certs. For
instance, if we make the root store updatable via component updater,
most of the updated roots will likely already be in the binary's copy.
Pooling will transparently dedup those and avoid retaining an extra
copy.
(I haven't gone as far as to give static CRYPTO_BUFFERs strong
references from the pool, since that seems odd. But something like
Chromium probably wants to intentionally leak the initial static ones so
that, when all references go away, they're still available for pooling.)
Change-Id: I05c25c5ff618f9f7a6ed21e4575cf659e7c32811
Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/c/boringssl/+/50045
Commit-Queue: David Benjamin <davidben@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Adam Langley <agl@google.com>
David Benjamin
Adam Langley