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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-06-17 10:52:03 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-06-17 10:52:03 +0000 |
commit | 932e4432596447eb9331cc2a2bb74a26a35b4efc (patch) | |
tree | 95161711ea07fd64f0c82d6e7943024c033dd5a8 /upstream/debian-unstable/man3/BIO_s_mem.3ssl | |
parent | Adding debian version 4.22.0-1. (diff) | |
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Merging upstream version 4.23.0.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/BIO_s_mem.3ssl b/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/BIO_s_mem.3ssl index 1c11c319..556b1eae 100644 --- a/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/BIO_s_mem.3ssl +++ b/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/BIO_s_mem.3ssl @@ -55,13 +55,13 @@ .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "BIO_S_MEM 3SSL" -.TH BIO_S_MEM 3SSL 2024-02-03 3.1.5 OpenSSL +.TH BIO_S_MEM 3SSL 2024-04-04 3.2.2-dev OpenSSL .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l .nh .SH NAME -BIO_s_secmem, +BIO_s_secmem, BIO_s_dgram_mem, BIO_s_mem, BIO_set_mem_eof_return, BIO_get_mem_data, BIO_set_mem_buf, BIO_get_mem_ptr, BIO_new_mem_buf \- memory BIO .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ BIO_get_mem_ptr, BIO_new_mem_buf \- memory BIO \& #include <openssl/bio.h> \& \& const BIO_METHOD *BIO_s_mem(void); +\& const BIO_METHOD *BIO_s_dgram_mem(void); \& const BIO_METHOD *BIO_s_secmem(void); \& \& BIO_set_mem_eof_return(BIO *b, int v); @@ -90,11 +91,31 @@ as appropriate to accommodate the stored data. \&\fBBIO_s_secmem()\fR is like \fBBIO_s_mem()\fR except that the secure heap is used for buffer storage. .PP +\&\fBBIO_s_dgram_mem()\fR is a memory BIO that respects datagram semantics. A single +call to \fBBIO_write\fR\|(3) will write a single datagram to the memory BIO. A +subsequent call to \fBBIO_read\fR\|(3) will read the data in that datagram. The +\&\fBBIO_read\fR\|(3) call will never return more data than was written in the original +\&\fBBIO_write\fR\|(3) call even if there were subsequent \fBBIO_write\fR\|(3) calls that +wrote more datagrams. Each successive call to \fBBIO_read\fR\|(3) will read the next +datagram. If a \fBBIO_read\fR\|(3) call supplies a read buffer that is smaller than +the size of the datagram, then the read buffer will be completely filled and the +remaining data from the datagram will be discarded. +.PP +It is not possible to write a zero length datagram. Calling \fBBIO_write\fR\|(3) in +this case will return 0 and no datagrams will be written. Calling \fBBIO_read\fR\|(3) +when there are no datagrams in the BIO to read will return a negative result and +the "retry" flags will be set (i.e. calling \fBBIO_should_retry\fR\|(3) will return +true). A datagram mem BIO will never return true from \fBBIO_eof\fR\|(3). +.PP Any data written to a memory BIO can be recalled by reading from it. Unless the memory BIO is read only any data read from it is deleted from the BIO. .PP -Memory BIOs support \fBBIO_gets()\fR and \fBBIO_puts()\fR. +Memory BIOs except \fBBIO_s_dgram_mem()\fR support \fBBIO_gets()\fR and \fBBIO_puts()\fR. +.PP +\&\fBBIO_s_dgram_mem()\fR supports \fBBIO_sendmmsg\fR\|(3) and \fBBIO_recvmmsg\fR\|(3) calls +and calls related to \fBBIO_ADDR\fR and MTU handling similarly to the +\&\fBBIO_s_dgram_pair\fR\|(3). .PP If the BIO_CLOSE flag is set when a memory BIO is freed then the underlying BUF_MEM structure is also freed. @@ -115,6 +136,7 @@ it will return zero and BIO_should_retry(b) will be false. If \fBv\fR is non zero then it will return \fBv\fR when it is empty and it will set the read retry flag (that is BIO_read_retry(b) is true). To avoid ambiguity with a normal positive return value \fBv\fR should be set to a negative value, typically \-1. +Calling this macro will fail for datagram mem BIOs. .PP \&\fBBIO_get_mem_data()\fR sets *\fBpp\fR to a pointer to the start of the memory BIOs data and returns the total amount of data available. It is implemented as a macro. @@ -135,10 +157,16 @@ as a result cannot be written to. This is useful when some data needs to be made available from a static area of memory in the form of a BIO. The supplied data is read directly from the supplied buffer: it is \fBnot\fR copied first, so the supplied area of memory must be unchanged until the BIO is freed. +.PP +All of the five functions described above return an error with +\&\fBBIO_s_dgram_mem()\fR. .SH NOTES .IX Header "NOTES" Writes to memory BIOs will always succeed if memory is available: that is -their size can grow indefinitely. +their size can grow indefinitely. An exception is \fBBIO_s_dgram_mem()\fR when +\&\fBBIO_set_write_buf_size\fR\|(3) is called on it. In such case the write buffer +size will be fixed and any writes that would overflow the buffer will return +an error. .PP Every write after partial read (not all data in the memory buffer was read) to a read write memory BIO will have to move the unread data with an internal @@ -146,15 +174,15 @@ copy operation, if a BIO contains a lot of data and it is read in small chunks intertwined with writes the operation can be very slow. Adding a buffering BIO to the chain can speed up the process. .PP -Calling \fBBIO_set_mem_buf()\fR on a BIO created with \fBBIO_new_secmem()\fR will -give undefined results, including perhaps a program crash. +Calling \fBBIO_set_mem_buf()\fR on a secmem or dgram BIO will give undefined results, +including perhaps a program crash. .PP -Switching the memory BIO from read write to read only is not supported and +Switching a memory BIO from read write to read only is not supported and can give undefined results including a program crash. There are two notable exceptions to the rule. The first one is to assign a static memory buffer immediately after BIO creation and set the BIO as read only. .PP -The other supported sequence is to start with read write BIO then temporarily +The other supported sequence is to start with a read write BIO then temporarily switch it to read only and call \fBBIO_reset()\fR on the read only BIO immediately before switching it back to read write. Before the BIO is freed it must be switched back to the read write mode. @@ -177,12 +205,10 @@ BIO_FLAGS_NONCLEAR_RST set has the same effect as a write operation. Calling \fBBIO_set_close()\fR with BIO_NOCLOSE orphans the BUF_MEM internal to the BIO, _not_ its actual data buffer. See the examples section for the proper method for claiming ownership of the data pointer for a deferred free operation. -.SH BUGS -.IX Header "BUGS" -There should be an option to set the maximum size of a memory BIO. .SH "RETURN VALUES" .IX Header "RETURN VALUES" -\&\fBBIO_s_mem()\fR and \fBBIO_s_secmem()\fR return a valid memory \fBBIO_METHOD\fR structure. +\&\fBBIO_s_mem()\fR, \fBBIO_s_dgram_mem()\fR and \fBBIO_s_secmem()\fR return a valid memory +\&\fBBIO_METHOD\fR structure. .PP \&\fBBIO_set_mem_eof_return()\fR, \fBBIO_set_mem_buf()\fR and \fBBIO_get_mem_ptr()\fR return 1 on success or a value which is less than or equal to 0 if an error occurred. |