// Copyright 2022 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. package tls import ( "crypto/x509" "runtime" "sync" "sync/atomic" ) type cacheEntry struct { refs atomic.Int64 cert *x509.Certificate } // certCache implements an intern table for reference counted x509.Certificates, // implemented in a similar fashion to BoringSSL's CRYPTO_BUFFER_POOL. This // allows for a single x509.Certificate to be kept in memory and referenced from // multiple Conns. Returned references should not be mutated by callers. Certificates // are still safe to use after they are removed from the cache. // // Certificates are returned wrapped in an activeCert struct that should be held by // the caller. When references to the activeCert are freed, the number of references // to the certificate in the cache is decremented. Once the number of references // reaches zero, the entry is evicted from the cache. // // The main difference between this implementation and CRYPTO_BUFFER_POOL is that // CRYPTO_BUFFER_POOL is a more generic structure which supports blobs of data, // rather than specific structures. Since we only care about x509.Certificates, // certCache is implemented as a specific cache, rather than a generic one. // // See https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/+/master/include/openssl/pool.h // and https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/+/master/crypto/pool/pool.c // for the BoringSSL reference. type certCache struct { sync.Map } var globalCertCache = new(certCache) // activeCert is a handle to a certificate held in the cache. Once there are // no alive activeCerts for a given certificate, the certificate is removed // from the cache by a finalizer. type activeCert struct { cert *x509.Certificate } // active increments the number of references to the entry, wraps the // certificate in the entry in an activeCert, and sets the finalizer. // // Note that there is a race between active and the finalizer set on the // returned activeCert, triggered if active is called after the ref count is // decremented such that refs may be > 0 when evict is called. We consider this // safe, since the caller holding an activeCert for an entry that is no longer // in the cache is fine, with the only side effect being the memory overhead of // there being more than one distinct reference to a certificate alive at once. func (cc *certCache) active(e *cacheEntry) *activeCert { e.refs.Add(1) a := &activeCert{e.cert} runtime.SetFinalizer(a, func(_ *activeCert) { if e.refs.Add(-1) == 0 { cc.evict(e) } }) return a } // evict removes a cacheEntry from the cache. func (cc *certCache) evict(e *cacheEntry) { cc.Delete(string(e.cert.Raw)) } // newCert returns a x509.Certificate parsed from der. If there is already a copy // of the certificate in the cache, a reference to the existing certificate will // be returned. Otherwise, a fresh certificate will be added to the cache, and // the reference returned. The returned reference should not be mutated. func (cc *certCache) newCert(der []byte) (*activeCert, error) { if entry, ok := cc.Load(string(der)); ok { return cc.active(entry.(*cacheEntry)), nil } cert, err := x509.ParseCertificate(der) if err != nil { return nil, err } entry := &cacheEntry{cert: cert} if entry, loaded := cc.LoadOrStore(string(der), entry); loaded { return cc.active(entry.(*cacheEntry)), nil } return cc.active(entry), nil }