I don't believe any of these represent a real timing vulnerability
(remote timing against memcmp() on a modern CPU is not easy), but
these are the ones where I believe we should be more careful.
For memeq and friends, "tor_" indicates constant-time and "fast_"
indicates optimized. I'm fine with leaving the constant-time
"safe_mem_is_zero" with its current name, but the "tor_" prefix on
the current optimized version is misleading.
Also, make the tor_digest*_is_zero() uniformly constant-time, and
add a fast_digest*_is_zero() version to use as needed.
A later commit in this branch will fix all the users of
tor_mem_is_zero().
Closes ticket 30309.
Manually fix up some reply-generating code that the Coccinelle scripts
won't match. Some more complicated ones remain -- these are mostly
ones that accumulate data to send, and then call connection_buf_add()
or connection_write_str_to_buf() directly.
Create a set of abstractions for controller commands and events to
output replies to the control channel. The control protocol has a
relatively consistent SMTP-like structure, so it's helpful when code
that implements control commands and events doesn't explicitly format
everything on its own.
Split the core reply formatting code out of control_fmt.c into
control_proto.c. The remaining code in control_format.c deals with
specific subsystems and will eventually move to join those subsystems.
When we tell the periodic event manager about an event, we are
"registering" that event. The event sits around without being
usable, however, until we "connect" the event to libevent. In the
end, we "disconnect" the event and remove its libevent parts.
Previously, we called these operations "add", "setup", and
"destroy", which led to confusion.
We need a little refactoring for this to work, since the
initialization code for the periodic events assumes that libevent is
already initialized, which it can't be until it's configured.
This change, combined with the previous ones, lets other subsystems
declare their own periodic events, without mainloop.c having to know
about them. Implements ticket 30293.
Mike Perry
Nick Mathewson
rl1987
Taylor Yu
George Kadianakis
David Goulet