Motivation:
We currently don't have a native transport which supports kqueue https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kqueue&sektion=2. This can be useful for BSD systems such as MacOS to take advantage of native features, and provide feature parity with the Linux native transport.
Modifications:
- Make a new transport-native-unix-common module with all the java classes and JNI code for generic unix items. This module will build a static library for each unix platform, and included in the dynamic libraries used for JNI (e.g. transport-native-epoll, and eventually kqueue).
- Make a new transport-native-unix-common-tests module where the tests for the transport-native-unix-common module will live. This is so each unix platform can inherit from these test and ensure they pass.
- Add a new transport-native-kqueue module which uses JNI to directly interact with kqueue
Result:
JNI support for kqueue.
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/2448
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/4231
Motivation:
There needs to be some work be done to allow using forbidden API check plugin when using java9.
Modifications:
Skip forbidden API check when using java9
Result:
Builds again with java9
Motivation:
In cases when an application is running in a container or is otherwise
constrained to the number of processors that it is using, the JVM
invocation Runtime#availableProcessors will not return the constrained
value but rather the number of processors available to the virtual
machine. Netty uses this number in sizing various resources.
Additionally, some applications will constrain the number of threads
that they are using independenly of the number of processors available
on the system. Thus, applications should have a way to globally
configure the number of processors.
Modifications:
Rather than invoking Runtime#availableProcessors, Netty should rely on a
method that enables configuration when the JVM is started or by the
application. This commit exposes a new class NettyRuntime for enabling
such configuraiton. This value can only be set once. Its default value
is Runtime#availableProcessors so that there is no visible change to
existing applications, but enables configuring either a system property
or configuring during application startup (e.g., based on settings used
to configure the application).
Additionally, we introduce the usage of forbidden-apis to prevent future
uses of Runtime#availableProcessors from creeping. Future work should
enable the bundled signatures and clean up uses of deprecated and
other forbidden methods.
Result:
Netty can be configured to not use the underlying number of processors,
but rather the constrained number of processors.
https://github.com/netty/netty-tcnative/pull/215
Motivation
OCSP stapling (formally known as TLS Certificate Status Request extension) is alternative approach for checking the revocation status of X.509 Certificates. Servers can preemptively fetch the OCSP response from the CA's responder, cache it for some period of time, and pass it along during (a.k.a. staple) the TLS handshake. The client no longer has to reach out on its own to the CA to check the validity of a cetitficate. Some of the key benefits are:
1) Speed. The client doesn't have to crosscheck the certificate.
2) Efficiency. The Internet is no longer DDoS'ing the CA's OCSP responder servers.
3) Safety. Less operational dependence on the CA. Certificate owners can sustain short CA outages.
4) Privacy. The CA can lo longer track the users of a certificate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCSP_staplinghttps://letsencrypt.org/2016/10/24/squarespace-ocsp-impl.html
Modifications
https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.0.2/ssl/SSL_set_tlsext_status_type.html
Result
High-level API to enable OCSP stapling
Motivation:
In OpenSslCertificateException we tried to validate the supplied error code but did not correctly account for all different valid error codes and so threw an IllegalArgumentException.
Modifications:
- Fix validation by updating to latest netty-tcnative and use CertificateVerifier.isValid
- Add unit tests
Result:
Validation of error code works as expected.
Motivation:
Conscrypt is a Java Security provider that wraps OpenSSL (specifically BoringSSL). It's a possible alternative to Netty-tcnative that we should explore. So this commit is just to enable us to further investigate its use.
Modifications:
Modifying the SslContext creation path to support the Conscrypt provider.
Result:
Netty will support OpenSSL with conscrypt.
Motivation:
Projects may import multiple libraries which use different versions of Netty.
Modifications:
Add 'netty-bom' meta-project that contains the other projects in a dependencyManagement section.
Result:
Developers can import the BOM to enforce specific version of Netty.
Motivation:
We not support all SSLParameters settings so we should better throw if a user try to use them.
Modifications:
- Check for unsupported parameters
- Add unit test
Result:
Less surprising behavior.
Motivation:
We should move the AutobahnTestsuite to an extra module. This allows easier to run only the testsuite or only the autobahntestsuite
Modifications:
Create a new module (testsuite-autobahn)
Result:
Better project structure.
Motivation:
autobahntestsuite-maven-plugin 0.1.4 was released and supports Java9.
Modifications:
Update plugin to be able to run tests on Java9
Result:
Autobahntestsuite can also be run on Java9.
Motivation:
OpenSSL doesn't automatically verify hostnames and requires extract method calls to enable this feature [1]. We should allow this to be configured.
Modifications:
- SSLParamaters#getEndpointIdentificationAlgorithm() should be respected and configured via tcnative interfaces.
Result:
OpenSslEngine respects hostname verification.
[1] https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Hostname_validation
Motivation:
We have our own ThreadLocalRandom implementation to support older JDKs . That said we should prefer the JDK provided when running on JDK >= 7
Modification:
Using ThreadLocalRandom implementation of the JDK when possible.
Result:
Make use of JDK implementations when possible.
Motivation:
We missed some stuff in 5728e0eb2c and so the build failed on java9
Modifications:
- Add extra cmdline args when needed
- skip the autobahntestsuite as jython not works with java9
- skip the osgi testsuite as the maven plugin not works with java9
Result:
Build finally passed on java9
Motivation:
Commit 591293bfb4 changed the build to need java8 but missed to adjust the enforce rule as well.
Modifications:
Enforce java8+
Result:
Quickly fail when user tries to compile with pre java8
Motivation:
Java8 is out now for some time and JDK7 is no longer supported officially. We should remove all our backports and just use what the JDK provides us. This also will allow us to use intrinsics that are offered by the JDK implementations.
Modifications:
Remove all backports of jdk8 classes.
Result:
Use what the JDK offers us. This also fixes [#5458]
Motivation:
tcnative was moved into an internal package.
Modifications:
Update package for tcnative imports.
Result:
Use correct package names for tcnative.
Motivation:
We need to pass special arguments to run with jdk9 as otherwise some tests will not be able to run.
Modifications:
Allow to define extra arguments when running with jdk9
Result:
Tests pass with jdk9
Motivation:
As we now need to compile with java8 we should still allow to run the tests with a different java version to ensure everythin also works with java 7 and 6.
Modifications:
Allow to pass "-DtestJavaHome" to the build and so use a different java version during running the tests.
Result:
Be able to run tests with different java versions.
Motivation:
tcnative has updated how constants are defined and removed some constants which are either obsolete or now set directly in tcnative.
Modifications:
- update to compile against tcnative changes.
Result:
Netty compiles with tcnative options changes.
Motivation:
Currently Netty utilizes BIO_new_bio_pair so we can control all FD lifetime and event notification but delegates to OpenSSL for encryption/decryption. The current implementation sets up a pair of BIO buffers to read/write encrypted/plaintext data. This approach requires copying of data from Java ByteBuffers to native memory BIO buffers, and also requires both BIO buffers to be sufficiently large to hold application data. If direct ByteBuffers are used we can avoid coyping to/from the intermediate BIO buffer and just read/write directly from the direct ByteBuffer memory. We still need an internal buffer because OpenSSL may generate write data as a result of read calls (e.g. handshake, alerts, renegotiation, etc..), but this buffer doesn't have to be be large enough to hold application data.
Modifications:
- Take advantage of the new ByteBuffer based BIO provided by netty-tcnative instead of using BIO_read and BIO_write.
Result:
Less copying and lower memory footprint requirement per TLS connection.
Motivation:
We used various mocking frameworks. We should only use one...
Modifications:
Make usage of mocking framework consistent by only using Mockito.
Result:
Less dependencies and more consistent mocking usage.
Motivation:
Previous versions of netty-tcnative used the org.apache.tomcat namespace which could lead to problems when a user tried to use tomcat and netty in the same app.
Modifications:
Use netty-tcnative which now uses a different namespace and adjust code to some API changes.
Result:
Its now possible to use netty-tcnative even when running together with tomcat.
Motivation:
We need to update jetty-alpn-agent to support latest JDK releases.
Modifications:
Update jetty-alpn-agent to 2.0.6
Result:
Be able to run tests with latest JDK releases.
Motivation:
When an empty hostname is used in DnsNameResolver.resolve*(...) it will never notify the future / promise. The root cause is that we not correctly guard against errors of IDN.toASCII(...) which will throw an IllegalArgumentException when it can not parse its input. That said we should also handle an empty hostname the same way as the JDK does and just use "localhost" when this happens.
Modifications:
- If the try to resolve an empty hostname we use localhost
- Correctly guard against errors raised by IDN.toASCII(...) so we will always noify the future / promise
- Add unit test.
Result:
DnsNameResolver.resolve*(...) will always notify the future.
Motivation:
Openssl provider should behave same as JDK provider when mutual authentication is required and a specific set of trusted Certificate Authorities are specified. The SSL handshake should return back to the connected peer the same list of configured Certificate Authorities.
Modifications:
Correctly set the CA list.
Result:
Correct and same behaviour as the JDK implementation.
Motivation:
Often its useful to run the tests with different commandline arguments (like different system properties).
Modifications:
Introduce argLine.javaProperties which can be set from the commandline as well to add arguments that should be append when run the unit tests.
Result:
More flexible way to run the tests.
Motivation:
Java9 will be released soon so we should ensure we can compile netty with Java9 and run all our tests. This will help to make sure Netty will be usable with Java9.
Modification:
- Add some workarounds to be able to compile with Java9, note that the full profile is not supported with Java9 atm.
- Remove some usage of internal APIs to be able to compile on java9
- Not support Alpn / Npn and so not run the tests when using Java9 for now. We will do a follow up PR to add support.
Result:
Its possible to build netty and run its testsuite with Java9.
Motivation:
We tried to detect the correct alert to use depending on the CertificateException that is thrown by the TrustManager. This not worked all the time as depending on the TrustManager implementation it may also wrap a CertPathValidatorException.
Modification:
- Try to unwrap the CertificateException if needed and detect the right alert via the CertPathValidatorException.
- Add unit to verify
Result:
Send the correct alert depending on the CertificateException when using OpenSslEngine.
Motivation:
A new version of centos was released we should verify against it when release.
Modifications:
Bump up version.
Result:
Release on latest centos version.
