fix: report a mutual-TLS credential the Mbed TLS stream cannot present - #785
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MbedTlsStream_ApplyTlsPolicy discarded the result of installing the client credential and silently skipped a half-supplied one. Both left a device configured for mutual TLS connecting without presenting a certificate, with nothing on the device saying so. That is the identification the IEC 62443 guide names against CR 1.5 and CR 1.8, removed while the deployment still believes it is in force. The two faults are different and are now reported differently. A half-supplied credential - one of the pair without the other - is a configuration mistake. The stream connects server-authenticated and reports WARNING with CAT_BAD_CONFIG, which is what docs/error-severity.md rates a component that was built and is delivering, just degraded. Delivery continues because 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. A credential mbedTLS will not take is not a configuration mistake. The only documented failure is MBEDTLS_ERR_SSL_ALLOC_FAILED, which is the same class as the ssl_setup and config_defaults failures either side of it, so it is treated the same way: ERROR with CAT_TLS_STREAM_INIT_FAILED, and Open fails. The sender retries on its next pass and a configured store replays. Connecting anyway would be the silent downgrade this change exists to stop. ApplyTlsPolicy therefore returns bool and joins the Open chain. Two intent-naming predicates replace the inline pointer tests, so the three cases - both halves, one half, neither - read as what they mean rather than as combinations of NULL. Two detail codes rather than one, appended before _MAX and never inserted, so a handler compiled against the old header keeps its numbering. A handler can tell a configuration mistake from an allocation failure, which want different responses. The tests gain a fixture helper for wiring a credential and a CHECK_* macro for the degraded-report shape. The helper deliberately stops short of opening: it recreates the handle, which resets the fakes, so anything arranged on them has to be set afterwards and hiding that made a test pass for the wrong reason. MbedTlsFake gains a forced return for mbedtls_ssl_conf_own_cert, which is what makes the allocation failure reachable from a unit test. Part of #782. The divergence note comes off the Mbed TLS platform page, and #719's entry narrows to the pairing check, which is all that is still true of it.
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WalkthroughMbed TLS stream opening now validates client credential combinations, installs complete credentials, propagates installation failures, and reports incomplete credentials. Tests cover diagnostics and cleanup. Documentation and MISRA C:2012 suppression references were updated. ChangesMbed TLS credential handling
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR changes mutual-TLS handling to warn and continue for incomplete credentials and fail when the credential cannot be installed, but the platform documentation still omits these outcomes and gives contradictory credential-lifetime guidance. That could mislead integrators about connection behavior and resource handling, so the documentation should be corrected before merging; a minor naming-convention follow-up also remains. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant StreamOpen
participant MbedTlsStreamApplyTlsPolicy
participant mbedtls_ssl_conf_own_cert
StreamOpen->>MbedTlsStreamApplyTlsPolicy: apply TLS policy
MbedTlsStreamApplyTlsPolicy->>mbedtls_ssl_conf_own_cert: install complete client credentials
mbedtls_ssl_conf_own_cert-->>MbedTlsStreamApplyTlsPolicy: return installation status
MbedTlsStreamApplyTlsPolicy-->>StreamOpen: return policy status
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43-45: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winCorrect the credential-lifetime divergence.
Lines 31-41 state that handle objects must remain addressable, but parsed material only needs to remain intact while a connection is open. They also document the safe disconnect and re-parse sequence.
Lines 75-82 instead say that parsed material must remain for the stream lifetime and that the private key stays in RAM continuously. These statements contradict the implementation and the preceding documentation. Rewrite this entry to describe caller-driven release, or remove it and update the “Six differences” count and the reference at Lines 43-45.
As per path instructions, platform documentation must describe only Mbed TLS behaviour and remove obsolete divergence text when behaviour is fixed.
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In `@docs/platforms/mbedtls/index.md`:
- Around line 59-60: Update the credentials section to document the verified
failure semantics: with exactly one client-credential handle,
SolidSyslogStream_Open continues using server-authenticated TLS and reports
WARNING with CAT_BAD_CONFIG; when both handles are supplied but
mbedtls_ssl_conf_own_cert fails, SolidSyslogStream_Open fails and reports ERROR
with CAT_TLS_STREAM_INIT_FAILED.
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Purpose
Part of #782, step 1.
Closes the behaviour #718
describes:
MbedTlsStream_ApplyTlsPolicydiscarded the result of installing themutual-TLS client credential, and silently skipped a half-supplied one.
Both left a device configured for mutual TLS connecting without presenting a
certificate, with nothing on the device saying so. That is the identification the
IEC 62443 guide names against CR 1.5 and CR 1.8, removed while the deployment
still believes it is in force.
No
Closeskeyword: per #782, intermediate pull requests intofeature/tls-reworkcarry none, and the closing keywords for the whole epic goin the final branch-to-
mainpull request.Change Description
The two faults are different, and the change reports them differently rather
than folding them together.
A half-supplied credential is a configuration mistake. One of the pair
without the other. The stream connects server-authenticated and reports
WARNINGwithCAT_BAD_CONFIG, which is whatdocs/error-severity.mdrates acomponent that was built and is delivering, just degraded - the same shape as the
SERVER_NAME_NOT_SETwarning already in this adapter. Delivery continues becausethe 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.
A credential Mbed TLS will not take is not a configuration mistake. The only
documented failure of
mbedtls_ssl_conf_own_certisMBEDTLS_ERR_SSL_ALLOC_FAILED, which is the same class as thessl_setupandconfig_defaultsfailures either side of it in this file. It is treated the sameway:
ERRORwithCAT_TLS_STREAM_INIT_FAILED, andOpenfails. The senderretries on its next pass and a configured store replays. Connecting anyway would
be the silent downgrade this change exists to stop.
ApplyTlsPolicytherefore returnsbooland joins theOpenchain. Twointent-naming predicates replace the inline pointer tests, so the three cases -
both halves, one half, neither - read as what they mean rather than as
combinations of NULL.
Two detail codes, not one, appended before
_MAXand never inserted, so ahandler compiled against the old header keeps its numbering. A handler can tell a
configuration mistake from an allocation failure, and those want different
responses.
A judgement worth flagging
#718 says the severity is "not a field-fixable
ERROR". That is right for thehalf-supplied case and I have followed it. For the install failure I have not:
an allocation failure is a resource fault, it fails
Openlike its two siblingsin the same function, and rating it
WARNINGwhile the connection does nothappen would misdescribe it. Happy to change it if you read the acceptance
criterion as covering both.
Test Evidence
Red-green-refactor, three cycles, each red confirmed before any production code:
OpenReportsIncompleteClientCredentialWhenClientKeyIsNullfailed tocompile on the missing detail code, then failed on the assertion
(
expected <1> but was <0>- nothing reported). Green with the literalcert-set-key-null condition only.
...WhenClientCertChainIsNull, failed the same way,which is what forced the condition to generalise rather than being generalised
on speculation. Green, then refactor to the two named predicates.
OpenFailsAndReportsWhenClientCredentialCannotBeInstalledfailed onCHECK_FALSE(Open(...)),Openhaving succeeded. Green by checking thereturn and joining the chain.
Refactor under green: a
WireClientCredentialfixture helper and aCHECK_INCOMPLETE_CREDENTIAL_REPORTEDmacro, which took the five mutual-TLS testbodies down to an arrange line, an act line and an assert line each.
The helper deliberately stops short of opening. An earlier version did both, and
it made cycle 3 pass for the wrong reason:
ReCreateHandleWithUpdatedConfigcalls
MbedTlsFake_Reset, so a forced fake return set before it is silentlycleared. Leaving
Opento the caller keeps that ordering visible.MbedTlsFakegains a forced return formbedtls_ssl_conf_own_cert, which iswhat makes the allocation failure reachable from a unit test at all.
Results, in the
freertos-hostimage against a freshbuild/debug-mbedtls-Mbed TLS is excluded from the
debugpreset in thegccimage, so this is theonly place these tests build:
That 22 includes both integration suites against the real libraries.
Tier B, since production source changed:
clang-format -iover the touchedfiles, then the whole-tree
--dry-run --Werrorcheck clean, thenscripts/misra_renumber.py --applyfor the five suppression lines the new codeshifted. No new findings.
Areas Affected
Platform/MbedTls/- the stream source, and two appended members onSolidSyslogMbedTlsStreamErrors.h.Tests/Support/MbedTlsFake.{c,h}, which islinked only by the Mbed TLS test executables.
docs/platforms/mbedtls/index.md,where the divergence note comes off and #719's entry narrows to the pairing
check, which is all that is still true of it.
misra_suppressions.txt.Public header change is additive: two enum members before
_MAX. No integratorsource change.
One merge-order note. #783
rewrites the same divergence list on the same page. Whichever merges second will
conflict there; the resolution is to keep that pull request's list and drop the
half-supplied entry from it, leaving six.
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