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set_key_cert copies the certificates, the keys, the CA store and the client-CA names of the context to the connection with us_ssl_use_ctx_identity. It no longer calls SSL_set_SSL_CTX, so the early callback and the ALPN callback of the connection's context stay in effect: the handshake waits for the SNICallback's answer and ALPN is negotiated. From an ALPNCallback the certificate is replaced when the new key fits the credential that BoringSSL picked.
WalkthroughThe change adds a helper to apply a secure context’s identity and peer-verification CA to an active SSL connection without replacing its SSL_CTX. The runtime ChangesTLS identity switching
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Status: ready for review. Reproduced on a debug build of main (9b4284f) with the script under "Reproduction" in the description: an This PR comes before #46099. #43216 now has a second version of the same copy, and #46296 deletes two lookups that this PR guards: see "Relation to other work" in the description. Open for a maintainer: the three decisions in the description. The open review thread on |
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Beyond the inline findings, a few other spots were checked and ruled out: the empty client-CA list sent after setKeyCert() with an identity-only context matches Node's SetCACerts (it also copies the context's possibly-empty list onto the SSL); the Bun__outOfMemory() in us_ssl_complete_chain is reachable only when X509_STORE_CTX_new/init fail, which is allocation failure; and the SSL_CREDENTIAL and temporary SSL_CTX refcounts in us_ssl_ctx_use_identities and us_ssl_apply_selected_ctx balance on every path (credentials move into the ex-data struct or are freed, and the throwaway context is released right after SSL_set_SSL_CTX takes its own ref).
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The change replaces the SSL_set_SSL_CTX-based setKeyCert() in src/runtime/socket/tls_socket_functions.rs with a new usockets helper in packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c that copies a SecureContext's certificates, credentials, verify store, client-CA names and session id context onto a live TLS connection, plus a large new node:tls test file and a ported Node test. It touches TLS credential selection and peer-verification configuration, so it is security-sensitive, and the bug hunt was cut off at its finding limit rather than running dry, so approval is not on the table. The note records only what was examined and ruled out beyond the posted inline comments.
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packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c— Servers that pair addContext() with an SNICallback that calls this.setKeyCert(X) and answers cb(null) serve the addContext certificate, not X, where Node serves X. us_ssl_apply_selected_ctx now resets has_key_cert at openssl.c:3248 and switches SSL_CTX, so the tree fallback at openssl.c:3461 (and openssl.c:3526 on the sync path) discards the identity setKeyCert installed moments earlier. Node never consults addContext entries when a user SNICallback exists. Fix: when rare->has_key_cert is set and the resolver answered null, skip the static-tree fallback on both the resumed and the synchronous path so the setKeyCert identity stands.Why this was flagged
Trigger: tls.createServer({ SNICallback(name, cb) { this.setKeyCert(X); cb(null); } }) plus server.addContext(name, Y) for the same servername, a listening server (us_select_cert_cb, openssl.c:3430). After the resolver answers null the resumed path at openssl.c:3452-3463 or the sync path at openssl.c:3524-3527 calls us_ssl_apply_selected_ctx(ssl, node->ctx). The new block at openssl.c:3243-3255 clears has_key_cert, nulls the client CAs and SSL_set_SSL_CTX replaces ssl->config->cert with Y's, so Y's certificate, Y's verify store and Y's sid ctx go out instead of X's. Node's tls.Server only uses _contexts in the default SNICallback; a user SNICallback bypasses them, so Node serves X. The PR's fixture (test/js/node/tls/node-tls-setkeycert-fixture.mjs) deliberately picks a servername that does not match the tree, so no test states this outcome. Base also overrode X via SSL_set_SSL_CTX, but this PR rewrote exactly this ordering for Node parity and adds the has_key_cert flag that could gate the fallback. Remedy: do not run the tree fallback when has_key_cert is set.
Verification: pre-existing. Trigger: a listening tls.Server with a user SNICallback that calls this.setKeyCert(X) and answers cb(null), plus server.addContext(name, Y) for the same servername. openssl.c:3524-3527 and :3452-3463 fall through to the addContext tree when the resolver selects nothing, so Y is served. So base serves Y by the identical route. No test covers the SNICallback+setKeyCert+addContext row.
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🔴 Servers whose cipher or sigalg policy allows only one key type now drop every handshake after setKeyCert() with a certificate of the other type, where main served the client. us_ssl_use_ctx_certificates calls SSL_certs_clear at openssl.c:3306, so the connection's own RSA credential is gone before the context's ECDSA one is installed, and nothing usable remains for an ECDHE-RSA-only (TLS 1.2) or rsa_pss_rsae-only (TLS 1.3) policy. Fix: keep the connection's existing credentials of other key types as fallbacks after the context's identities, which also covers the two-key-type server case at node-tls-setkeycert.test.ts:786. The PR calls this a downside; the test at node-tls-setkeycert.test.ts:834 pins the refusal.
Why this was flagged
A node:tls server created with ciphers: "ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256" (or sigalgs: "rsa_pss_rsae_sha256" on TLS 1.3) and an RSA certificate calls tlsSocket.setKeyCert(ctx) from its SNICallback or ALPNCallback with ctx holding an ECDSA certificate. set_key_cert in src/runtime/socket/tls_socket_functions.rs:882 calls us_ssl_use_ctx_identity, which reaches us_ssl_use_ctx_certificates; SSL_certs_clear at packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c:3306 removes the connection's own RSA credential, and SSL_set_chain_and_key at openssl.c:3313 leaves only the ECDSA one. Because the connection keeps its own SSL_CTX, the server's cipher and sigalg policy still applies, so BoringSSL finds no usable credential and the handshake is refused. On the base branch SSL_set_SSL_CTX moved the connection onto the context's SSL_CTX, whose default cipher list accepts ECDSA, so the client was served. Node keeps the server's RSA certificate alongside and serves it. The new test asserts the refusal at test/js/node/tls/node-tls-setkeycert.test.ts:841 (onBun ? "refused" : "agent2").
Verification: us_ssl_use_ctx_certificates runs SSL_certs_clear(ssl) at packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c:3306 and then installs only the context's chain/key. Ciphers and sigalgs are set only on the SSL_CTX (openssl.c:1477, openssl.c:1547), so the RSA-only policy still applies and no credential matches. On the base branch set_key_cert called SSL_set_SSL_CTX, so the handshake completed with the ECDSA certificate.
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This is the first Downsides bullet, and the test pins it on purpose. Two rules give the refusal. setKeyCert() replaces every certificate of the connection, as main does. The connection now keeps the ciphers and sigalgs of the server, as in Node.
I did not add the fallback in this PR, because of where it has to go in BoringSSL. A certificate that is only a fallback has to come after the new one, and the last place in BoringSSL's order is the slot that getCertificate() reads. A later setKeyCert() in an ALPNCallback replaces that same slot in place. With the old certificate there, getCertificate() names a certificate that the client did not get, and that later call has no effect.
The fallback gives Node's result for this server: the client gets the RSA certificate of the server. It does not give the ECDSA certificate that main served. That one also needs the ciphers and sigalgs of the context.
These are decisions 2 and 3 under "Decisions for a maintainer" in the description.
…back A connection that has the certificate of a setKeyCert() call keeps it when its SNICallback selects nothing: the addContext() entry for the name no longer replaces it, as in Node. On a client socket, a context without a certificate leaves the client's own certificate and gives it the CA only. The tests of the doors that only Bun has move to node-tls-context.test.ts, and the test of a collected context now asserts the collection.
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Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the new native surface for memory-safety problems and did not find any: the SSL_CREDENTIAL references in us_ssl_ctx_use_identities are balanced on every path (each identity is either stored in the ex-data struct freed by us_ctx_identities_free or freed directly, and SSL_CTX_add1_credential / SSL_add1_credential take their own refs); the throwaway SSL_CTX in us_ssl_apply_selected_ctx is released after SSL_set_SSL_CTX takes its own reference; and the Rust extern for us_ssl_use_ctx_identity matches the C definition parameter-by-parameter.
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The change reworks tlsSocket.setKeyCert() across packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c, libusockets.h and src/runtime/socket/tls_socket_functions.rs, touching TLS credential selection, verify stores and client-CA names, with a large new test file. Inline findings already signal that a human look is needed; this note only records the refcount, ex-data lifecycle and FFI-signature checks that were examined and ruled out this run.
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Problem
tlsSocket.setKeyCert(context)in anALPNCallbackdoes not change the certificate. In anSNICallbackit loses ALPN and ignores a later refusal.vendor/boringssl/ssl/s3_both.cc:537: void bssl::tls_next_message(SSLImpl *): Assertion '0' failed.set_key_cert(src/runtime/socket/tls_socket_functions.rs:894) callsSSL_set_SSL_CTX. The user's context has neither callback below.Fix
set_key_certcalls the newus_ssl_use_ctx_identity(packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c), which copies the certificates, keys and CA of the context to the connection.SSL_CTX, as in Node. A server context without a certificate throwsError: SetKeyCert.test/js/node/tls/node-tls-setkeycert.test.ts(105 of 159 tests fail on main), 5 tests innode-tls-context.test.ts, Node'stest-tls-server-setkeycert.js.Background
SSL_CTXof a connection. One holds the handshake until theSNICallbackanswers, one selects ALPN.ALPNCallback. A call there replaces it only when the new key fits.Downsides
ciphersandsigalgsof the context no longer apply, as in Node. An RSA-only server now refuses the handshake for an ECDSA context.setKeyCert()in anALPNCallbacknow wins over the context that SNI selected. Node serves that one.openssl.cgrows 1,829 bytes. Each SNI context switch runs about 40 more instructions.Notes
Relation to other work. All five are from this account.
thison a listening server #46099 (draft) makesthisin theSNICallbackof a listening server theTLSSocket, as in Node. It needs this PR first: with it,this.setKeyCert()runs on every listening server.ALPNCallbackbefore BoringSSL picks the certificate. Since 0fa7261 it also applies the context to a server connection in place (us_ssl_set_key_cert), for the first certificate of the context. A client still switches theSSL_CTXthere. So the two PRs now hold two versions of the same copy. They conflict inopenssl.c,libusockets.handtls_socket_functions.rs, and both addtest-tls-server-setkeycert.js. Only one copy has to stay, and either PR can land first. By a read of both diffs, not a build: if this PR lands first, node:tls: run ALPNCallback before BoringSSL picks the certificate and the session #43216 can callus_ssl_use_ctx_identityand needs nous_ssl_set_key_cert. In both ordersus_ssl_key_fits_handshakecan go once theALPNCallbackruns before the pick, and the ALPNCallback rows under "Differs from Node" go with it.addContext()lookups thatus_select_cert_cbruns for a server with anSNICallback. This PR guards those two lookups withhas_key_cert, so the two PRs conflict there. The PR that lands second drops the guards. The flag stays forus_ssl_apply_selected_ctx.SNICallbackis pending. After this PR a connection waits for itsSNICallbackaftersetKeyCert()too, so it can meet that case.SNICallbackon the stream TLS engine. TheSNICallbackblock of the new test skips the two Duplex doors on Bun until then. TheALPNCallbackrows run on them now.Decisions for a maintainer. #43216 asks the same two.
SNICallbackbefore theALPNCallbackon both versions. Node runs theALPNCallbackfirst on TLS 1.3. The last call wins in both.SNICallbackanswer,addContext(), orsetKeyCert(C)in theSNICallback), thensetKeyCert(B)in theALPNCallbackciphersandsigalgs. BoringSSL reads both from theSSL_CTXof the connection.this.setKeyCert(ctx); cb(null)cb(null, ctx)So after this PR the two ways to give a connection a context differ in Bun. The second row is not changed here.
setKeyCert()replaces the certificate of one key type and leaves the server's certificates of other types. This PR replaces every certificate of the connection, as main does. So a server limited to RSA byciphersorsigalgsrefuses the handshake aftersetKeyCert()with an ECDSA context, where Node serves the server's RSA certificate and main served the ECDSA one. To keep the old certificate as a fallback it has to come after the new one in BoringSSL's order. That place is the slot thatgetCertificate()reads, and the one that a latersetKeyCert()in anALPNCallbackreplaces in place. I left the rule as it is on main.Reproduction.
Node v26.3.0 and this PR print
server: deniedandclient: ECONNRESET. main printsclient: secure, alpn falseandclient: got secret.The order that stops a debug build is in
test/js/node/tls/node-tls-setkeycert-fixture.mjs: a listening server with anALPNCallback, a context that it also gave toaddContext(), and anSNICallbackthat callssetKeyCert()and answers from a microtask. The debug build of main stops at the assertion on TLS 1.2. On TLS 1.3 theALPNCallbackruns twice and the server fails withERR_SSL_internal error. Release builds compile the assertion out (-DNDEBUG,scripts/build/flags.ts:245). I did not run that order on a release build of main.What the helper does.
SNICallback, a'connection'listener):SSL_certs_clear, then the chain and key of the context withSSL_set_chain_and_key, then the identities of a context with several key types.ALPNCallback): BoringSSL signs with the credential it picked. The helper changes that credential in place only when the new key has the same type, the same curve (EC) or a size that is not smaller (RSA). With an RSA key exchange it also stops once the server's flight is out. Otherwise the certificate stays, which is what main serves for every call from anALPNCallback.ca). After the pick it looks in the store of the connection's context too, as BoringSSL does before the pick.SSL_set1_verify_cert_store, and for a server the client-CA names (an empty list for a context without a CA) and the session id context of the context.SNICallbackselects nothing, Bun looks for anaddContext()entry for the name. A connection that has the certificate of asetKeyCert()call now keeps it, as in Node. main served the entry.setKeyCert()replaces all of it.SSL_set_SSL_CTXdoes nothing for the context that the connection is on, sous_ssl_apply_selected_ctxsteps to an empty context first in that case. One byte in the padding ofus_ssl_rare_trecords thatsetKeyCert()ran.Rows equal to Node v26.3.0. 35 call orders on 3 doors and 2 TLS versions (a scratch matrix, against main at 91e7e3b):
server.emit('connection', netSocket)new TLSSocket(netSocket, { isServer: true })server.listen(),ALPNCallbackrowsTwo rows equal Node on main and differ now: decision 1 on the emit and the listen door. The other rows that still differ are in the next list.
Differs from Node, each with a test that states both results.
setKeyCert()contexts. Node resumes. Same rule as for SNI contexts (node:tls: do not resume a session under a differently configured SNI context #42998).ALPNCallback, a key that does not fit the pick (another curve, another type on TLS 1.3, a shorter RSA key, a call after the flight): the certificate stays. Node serves the new one. Same as main.ALPNCallbackon a server with certificates of two key types: the certificate stays. Same as main.setKeyCert()replaces both. Node replaces one, so a client of the other type still connects there. Same as main.{ cert, ca }with the issuers only inca: Bun sends them (3 certificates), Node sends 1. Same as main.ciphersorsigalgs, and an ECDSA context: Bun refuses the handshake (ERR_SSL_NO_SHARED_CIPHERon TLS 1.2,ERR_SSL_NO_COMMON_SIGNATURE_ALGORITHMSon TLS 1.3). Node serves the server's RSA certificate. main served the ECDSA one.SetKeyCertand keeps the certificate. Node throwsERR_SSL_PASSED_A_NULL_PARAMETERand the handshake fails.cb(null, ctx)and thensetKeyCert()in the sameSNICallbackcall: the answer wins, because Bun applies it when the callback returns. Node serves thesetKeyCert()context.setKeyCert()right afternew TLSSocket(), or in a callback that runs whileupgradeTLSfeeds a ClientHello that was already read: the socket has no handle yet and the call does nothing. Not changed here.Behaviour that moves.
ALPNCallbacknow throws. When the callback does not catch it, the handshake is refused with the alertno_application_protocol. main completed that handshake. Node resets.setKeyCert()context, because the connection stays on its ownSSL_CTX: the cipher list, the signature algorithms, the issuer thatgetPeerCertificate(true)adds on the server, the store that completes a lone certificate at the handshake, and by a read ofus_reneg_policythe renegotiation limit of a client.setKeyCert({ key, cert })nothing else holds it, so it can be collected and built again. Keep the result oftls.createSecureContext()to avoid that.socket.setKeyCert()ofBun.listenandBun.connectsockets changes the same way, including the throw on a server.Measurements. Linux x64, taken against main at 91e7e3b.
OPENSSL_memory_alloc, 1,000 calls): one call in a handshake costs 17 (16 on main), and 20 on a socket that the server adopted. With 1 CA name 21, with 10 names 59. A context with a chain of 2: 11 (21 on main). A certificate with its 2 issuers in the store: 80 in the call, and 176 for the server's whole TLS 1.3 handshake (272 on main, which completes the chain at each handshake).CRYPTO_BUFFER_POOL.openssl.cbuilt with the release flags, without LTO, against main at 9b4284f:.text26,248 to 28,077 bytes. 100 of 111 existing functions are identical, 6 differ in a line number only.us_ssl_apply_selected_ctxgrows from 31 to 68 instructions: a connection withoutsetKeyCert()runs about 40 more for each SNI context switch (one ex_data read), and 0 allocations.set_key_certin the debug binary: 2,542 to 1,961 bytes. No release link was made.SNICallbackanswers: 1,401 (TLS 1.2) and 2,566 (TLS 1.3) on main, 0 with this PR and on Node.SSL_set_SSL_CTXcall sites insrcandpackages: 2 functions to 1.Tests.
node-tls-setkeycert.test.tsis anode:testfile with the rows that Node has too. On Node v26.3.0: 196 pass, 2 skipped (a 512-bit key that Node refuses). Its last test runs the file on Node when thenodeinPATHtakes TypeScript.server.listen(),server.emit('connection', socket),new TLSSocket(socket, { isServer: true }), and both again over a Duplex for theALPNCallbackrows.node-tls-context.test.tshas the doors that only Bun has (the'connection'listener,Bun.listen), a context that is collected before theSNICallbackanswers, and the order that stops a debug build, in a child process.thison a listening server #46099,thisin theSNICallbackof a listening server is the server on Bun. The listen door of the test takes the socket from'connection'in that case.node-tls-context.test.ts(83 pass),tls-reject-before-client-cert.test.ts(126 pass, 10 skip),node-tls-server.test.ts,node-tls-connect.test.ts,socket.test.ts, and the vendoredtest-tls-sni-*,test-tls-alpn-server-client,test-tls-multi-key,test-tls-multi-pfx,test-tls-add-context. The failures there also fail on main or are tests that time out under load and pass alone.Self-review, the 2 rows not added. An Ed25519 key in an
ALPNCallback, and an RSA key that is shorter but would still fit: the fixtures have one Ed25519 certificate and no RSA certificate above 2048 bits.Other designs.
ALPNCallbackwithout a second mechanism, and it writes to a context that the caller can share with other servers.setKeyCert(). It removes the lastSSL_set_SSL_CTX, but it adds allocations to every SNI-selected handshake and changes whichciphersandsigalgsan SNI context gets.