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prevent a clang static analyzer warning

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The static analyzer correctly complains about "garbagge
value being used", but this is exactly what we want. The
code in question is a fallback when we cannot obtain any
other source of randomness for cryptography needs.
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Rainer Gerhards 2016-02-02 15:51:52 +01:00
parent d32e477c68
commit 530f91a423
1 changed files with 18 additions and 7 deletions
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runtime/libgcry.c
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@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
/* gcry.c - rsyslog's libgcrypt based crypto provider
*
* Copyright 2013 Adiscon GmbH.
* Copyright 2013-2016 Adiscon GmbH.
*
* We need to store some additional information in support of encryption.
* For this, we create a side-file, which is named like the actual log
@ -285,8 +285,8 @@ finalize_it:
RETiRet;
}
static rsRetVal
eiWriteIV(gcryfile gf, uchar *iv)
static rsRetVal __attribute__((nonnull(2)))
eiWriteIV(gcryfile gf, const uchar *const iv)
{
static const char hexchars[16] =
{'0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','a','b','c','d','e','f'};
@ -520,7 +520,17 @@ seedIV(gcryfile gf, uchar **iv)
{
int fd;
#ifdef __clang_analyzer__
*iv = calloc(1, gf->blkLength); /* do NOT use this code! */
/* this execution branch is only present to prevent a
* "garbagge value used" warning by the static analyzer.
* In fact, that is exactly what we want to and need to
* use. Using calloc here keeps that analyzer happy, but would
* cause a security issue if used in practice.
*/
#else
*iv = malloc(gf->blkLength); /* do NOT zero-out! */
#endif
/* if we cannot obtain data from /dev/urandom, we use whatever
* is present at the current memory location as random data. Of
* course, this is very weak and we should consider a different
@ -595,6 +605,7 @@ rsgcryBlkBegin(gcryfile gf)
gcry_error_t gcryError;
uchar *iv = NULL;
DEFiRet;
const char openMode = gf->openMode;
gcryError = gcry_cipher_open(&gf->chd, gf->ctx->algo, gf->ctx->mode, 0);
if (gcryError) {
@ -610,7 +621,7 @@ rsgcryBlkBegin(gcryfile gf)
ABORT_FINALIZE(RS_RET_ERR);
}
if(gf->openMode == 'r') {
if(openMode == 'r') {
readIV(gf, &iv);
readBlkEnd(gf);
} else {
@ -624,7 +635,7 @@ rsgcryBlkBegin(gcryfile gf)
ABORT_FINALIZE(RS_RET_ERR);
}
if(gf->openMode == 'w') {
if(openMode == 'w') {
CHKiRet(eiOpenAppend(gf));
CHKiRet(eiWriteIV(gf, iv));
}