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authorChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>2023-05-11 11:49:50 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2023-05-12 09:24:08 +0100
commiteefca7ec514262aef08d0ef261552f2f604bd851 (patch)
tree9f49873465fa9b923a180c4ac38d78a581b5ba05 /Documentation/networking
parentf921bd41001ccff2249f5f443f2917f7ef937daf (diff)
net/handshake: Enable the SNI extension to work properly
Enable the upper layer protocol to specify the SNI peername. This avoids the need for tlshd to use a DNS lookup, which can return a hostname that doesn't match the incoming certificate's SubjectName. Fixes: 2fd5532044a8 ("net/handshake: Add a kernel API for requesting a TLSv1.3 handshake") Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/tls-handshake.rst5
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/tls-handshake.rst b/Documentation/networking/tls-handshake.rst
index a2817a88e905..6f5ea1646a47 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/tls-handshake.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/tls-handshake.rst
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ fills in a structure that contains the parameters of the request:
struct socket *ta_sock;
tls_done_func_t ta_done;
void *ta_data;
+ const char *ta_peername;
unsigned int ta_timeout_ms;
key_serial_t ta_keyring;
key_serial_t ta_my_cert;
@@ -71,6 +72,10 @@ instantiated a struct file in sock->file.
has completed. Further explanation of this function is in the "Handshake
Completion" sesction below.
+The consumer can provide a NUL-terminated hostname in the @ta_peername
+field that is sent as part of ClientHello. If no peername is provided,
+the DNS hostname associated with the server's IP address is used instead.
+
The consumer can fill in the @ta_timeout_ms field to force the servicing
handshake agent to exit after a number of milliseconds. This enables the
socket to be fully closed once both the kernel and the handshake agent