The getters would leave the length uninitialized when empty, which is
dangerous if the caller does not check. Instead, always fill it in.
This opens a can of worms around whether empty alias and missing alias
are meaningfully different. Treating {NULL, 0} differently from
{non-NULL, 0} has typically caused problems. At the PKCS#12 level,
neither friendlyName, nor localKeyId are allowed to be empty, which
suggests we should not distinguish. However, X509_CERT_AUX, which is
serialized in i2d_X509_AUX, does distinguish the two states. The getters
try to, but an empty ASN1_STRING can have NULL data pointer. (Although,
when parsed, they usually do not because OpenSSL helpfully
NUL-terminates it for you.)
For now, I've just written the documentation to suggest the empty string
is the same as the missing state. I'm thinking we can make the PKCS#12
functions not bother distinguishing the two and see how it goes. I've
also gone ahead and grouped them with d2i_X509_AUX, although the rest of
the headers has not yet been grouped into sections.
Bug: 426, 481
Change-Id: Ic9c21bc2b5ef3b012c2f812b0474f04d5232db06
Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/c/boringssl/+/51745
Reviewed-by: Adam Langley <agl@google.com>
Commit-Queue: David Benjamin <davidben@google.com>
I meant to grab more interesting types this round, but I missed a few
spots. We should be able to get these out of the way though.
Update-Note: Direct access of these structs should be replaced by
accessors.
Change-Id: I43cb8f949d53754cfebef2f84be66e89d2b96f96
Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/c/boringssl/+/47384
Reviewed-by: Adam Langley <agl@google.com>
David Benjamin
Adam Langley