On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Alon Bar-Lev <[email protected]> wrote:
> Oh... I really don't know libp11...
> But if one process called C_Initialize() and then another/same thread
> called C_Initialize() again and calls C_Finalize, first thread will
> not be able to continue working.
>

That could be an acceptable failure scenario in the libp11 case
because it doesn't seem like it's meant to be thread safe (it's
supposed to be a simplification layer...) At any rate, the libp11 devs
should fill us in how they want it to be handled.

> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:45 AM, David Smith
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Alon Bar-Lev <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> For the C_Initialize() patch... If you got already initialize you
>>> should not call C_Finalize.
>>
>> Can you explain more? How should the handling look like with libp11?
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:23 AM, David Smith
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi OpenSC folks,
>>>>
>>>> While debugging some issues with pkcs#11 related handling in
>>>> wpasupplicant, I found two small bugs that I'm sending patches for.
>>>> Both are related to attempting to reuse pkcs#11 modules in one
>>>> process, something that wpasupplicant does when switching to and from
>>>> networks that one wants to authenticate to using smartcard
>>>> credentials.
>>>>
>>>> The first is for a buffer overrun in engine_pkcs11's pin handling. The
>>>> overrun occurs after the pin has been created with strdup() via
>>>> set_pin(), when it is OPENSSL_cleanse() it always cleanses to
>>>> MAX_PIN_LENGTH, which will cause free() to fail when the pin is short.
>>>> The patch adds tracking of the pin length in a new static variable and
>>>> uses it for all calls to OPENSSL_cleanse().
>>>>
>>>> The second patch is to make libp11 swallow
>>>> CKR_CRYPTOKI_ALREADY_INITIALIZED returns from C_Initialize(). It's an
>>>> informational message and should not be bubbled up to the caller.
>>>>
>>>> Please take a look,
>>>> - dds
>>>>
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>>
>
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