Fwd: [PATCH] xmlsecurity: nsscrypto_initialize: try to avoid profile migr...

[Michael Stahl]

hi,

anybody got an insight into NSS initialisation to tell me if this is a 
good fix?

it seems plausible to me, but i haven't tested it, and my OS is so new 
it creates the new SQL profiles by default anyway.

anybody got an old system and some time to test if it actually works?

but i'm thinking we need some insight here before backporting the recent 
bundled NSS upgrade to release branches :)



-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	[PATCH] xmlsecurity: nsscrypto_initialize: try to avoid 
profile migr...
Date: 	Thu, 9 Aug 2018 12:02:55 +0200
From: 	Michael Stahl (via Code Review) <gerrit at gerrit.libreoffice.org>
Reply-To: 	Michael.Stahl at cib.de
CC: 	Michael Stahl <Michael.Stahl at cib.de>



Hi,

I would like you to review the following patch:

     https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/58756

To pull it, you can do:

     git pull ssh://gerrit.libreoffice.org:29418/core refs/changes/56/58756/1

xmlsecurity: nsscrypto_initialize: try to avoid profile migration

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.35_release_notes

NSS 3.35 and later will automatically migrate migrate profiles from the
old "dbm:" BDB format to the new "sql:" SQLite format.

The new format can be read by NSS 3.12 and later, which is old enough that
it can be assumed to be available.

However LibreOffice still shouldn't migrate the profile on its own:
LO typically uses a Mozilla Firefox or Thunderbird profile, and if it is
a system Firefox with system NSS libraries, then it's probably a bad
idea for LO to migrate the profile under Firefox's nose, particularly
considering the "partial migration" scenario if the profile is
password-protected.

Try to avoid this by checking if the profile is the old format and
explicitly using the "dbm:" prefix to prevent the migration.

Change-Id: I06480522f830ce74e2fb7bf79fee84ad80979b82
---
M xmlsecurity/source/xmlsec/nss/nssinitializer.cxx
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)



diff --git a/xmlsecurity/source/xmlsec/nss/nssinitializer.cxx b/xmlsecurity/source/xmlsec/nss/nssinitializer.cxx
index dd035c6..b1f16df 100644
--- a/xmlsecurity/source/xmlsec/nss/nssinitializer.cxx
+++ b/xmlsecurity/source/xmlsec/nss/nssinitializer.cxx
@@ -244,6 +244,20 @@
      // there might be no profile
      if ( !sCertDir.isEmpty() )
      {
+        if (sCertDir.indexOf(':') == -1) //might be env var with explicit prefix
+        {
+            OUString sCertDirURL;
+            osl::FileBase::getFileURLFromSystemPath(
+                OStringToOUString(sCertDir, osl_getThreadTextEncoding()),
+                sCertDirURL);
+            osl::DirectoryItem item;
+            if (osl::FileBase::E_NOENT == osl::DirectoryItem::get(sCertDirURL + "/cert8.db", item) &&
+                osl::FileBase::E_NOENT != osl::DirectoryItem::get(sCertDirURL + "/cert9.db", item))
+            {
+                SAL_INFO("xmlsecurity.xmlsec", "nsscrypto_initialize: trying to avoid profile migration");
+                sCertDir = "dbm:" + sCertDir;
+            }
+        }
          if( NSS_InitReadWrite( sCertDir.getStr() ) != SECSuccess )
          {
              SAL_INFO("xmlsecurity.xmlsec", "Initializing NSS with profile failed.");

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Gerrit-MessageType: newchange
Gerrit-Change-Id: I06480522f830ce74e2fb7bf79fee84ad80979b82
Gerrit-PatchSet: 1
Gerrit-Project: core
Gerrit-Branch: master
Gerrit-Owner: Michael Stahl <Michael.Stahl at cib.de>

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