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Fix NSS CodeQL build for C++ SSL context API - #3611

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Fix NSS CodeQL build for C++ SSL context API#3611
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General points

NSS builds failed because OpenSSL-only SSL_CTX storage was accessed unconditionally by the new C++ context API.

  • Guard OpenSSL context access; retain safe no-op behavior for NSS.
  • Initialize NSS per-socket state.
  • AI-assisted change; reviewed for NUT style and portability.
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Frequent "underwater rocks" for driver addition/update PRs

  • Revised existing driver families and added a sub-driver if applicable.
  • Did not extend obsoleted drivers with new hardware support features.
  • For updated existing device drivers, bumped the DRIVER_VERSION macro or its equivalent.
  • For USB devices, revised that the driver uses unique VID/PID combinations.
  • For new USB devices, built and committed scripts/upower/95-upower-hid.hwdb.
  • Proposed NUT data mapping is aligned with docs/nut-names.txt.
  • Updated data/driver.list.in if applicable.

Frequent "underwater rocks" for general C code PRs

  • Conditional compilation keeps OpenSSL types out of NSS builds.
  • Coding style follows surrounding code.
  • For newly added files, updated Makefile.am recipes and passed make distcheck.
#ifdef WITH_OPENSSL
	void *previous = _ssl_ctx;
	_ssl_ctx = static_cast<SSL_CTX*>(ssl_ctx);
	return previous;
#else
	NUT_UNUSED_VARIABLE(ssl_ctx);
	return nullptr;
#endif

General documentation updates

  • Added a bullet point into NEWS.adoc, possibly also UPGRADING.adoc.
  • Updated docs/acknowledgements.txt.
  • Added or updated manual page information.
  • Passed make spellcheck and updated docs/nut.dict if needed.

Additional work may be needed after posting this PR

  • Propose a PR for NUT DDL with detailed device data dumps from tests against real hardware.
  • Address NUT CI farm build failures for the PR.
  • Revise suggestions from LGTM.COM analysis about "new issues" with the changed codebase.

Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Fix failing GitHub Actions job Analyze for cpp Fix NSS CodeQL build for C++ SSL context API Sep 1, 2026
Copilot AI requested a review from jimklimov September 1, 2026 06:57
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The little bot that couldn't...

I identified and validated the root cause: PR #3607 defines Socket::setSSLContext() and getSSLContext() unconditionally, although _ssl_ctx and SSL_CTX exist only with OpenSSL. NSS builds consequently fail at compilation.
A focused fix—guarding those OpenSSL-specific accesses and initializing the new NSS state—successfully builds the exact failing configuration (clang, NSS, libusb-0.1) in a temporary checkout of the failing PR.
However, the checked-out working branch is based on master and does not contain the failing setSSLContext changes from PR #3607, so no surgical repository change can be committed here without importing that unrelated 25-file PR. Please provide a checkout based on PR #3607 (or authorize updating that branch).

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jimklimov deleted the copilot/fix-github-actions-job-analyze branch September 1, 2026 07:13
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