Hello,

On 2019/12/04 2:37, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
The attached patch implements two new connection string variables for minimum
and maximum TLS protocol version, mimicking how it's done in the backend.  This
does duplicate a bit of code from be-secure-openssl.c to cope with older
versions of OpenSSL, but it seemed a too trivial duplication to create
common/openssl.c (but others might disagree).

I've looked at the patch and I have a couple comments.

+               if (ssl_max_ver < ssl_min_ver)
+               {
+                       printfPQExpBuffer(&conn->errorMessage,
+                                                         libpq_gettext("invalid 
maximum SSL version specified, must be higher than minimum SSL version: %s\n"),
+                                                         
conn->sslmaxprotocolversion);
+                       return -1;
+               }
+
+               if (ssl_max_ver == -1)
+               {
+                       printfPQExpBuffer(&conn->errorMessage,
+                                                         libpq_gettext("invalid 
maximum SSL version specified: %s\n"),
+                                                         
conn->sslmaxprotocolversion);
+                       return -1;
+               }

I think we should raise the error "invalid maximum SSL version specified" earlier. If ssl_protocol_version_to_openssl() returns -1 and ssl_min_ver is valid we never reach the condition "ssl_max_ver == -1". Also it might confuse users to get the error "invalid maximum SSL version specified, must be higher than minimum SSL version" instead of former one.

Secondly I think the error "invalid maximum SSL version specified" itself might confuse users, in the case if the input is good but a build doesn't support desired version. So I think it is better to do two checks here: check for a correct input and check if a build supports it. In the second case we may raise "SSL version %s not supported by this build". It is actually like backend does: guc.c checks for correct input using ssl_protocol_versions_info and ssl_protocol_version_to_openssl() checks if a build supports the version.

--
Arthur


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