openssl/doc/ssl/SSL_get_all_async_fds.pod
Matt Caswell ff75a25749 Refactor the async wait fd logic
Implementation experience has shown that the original plan for async wait
fds was too simplistic. Originally the async logic created a pipe internally
and user/engine code could then get access to it via API calls. It is more
flexible if the engine is able to create its own fd and provide it to the
async code.

Another issue is that there can be a lot of churn in the fd value within
the context of (say) a single SSL connection leading to continually adding
and removing fds from (say) epoll. It is better if we can provide some
stability of the fd value across a whole SSL connection. This is
problematic because an engine has no concept of an SSL connection.

This commit refactors things to introduce an ASYNC_WAIT_CTX which acts as a
proxy for an SSL connection down at the engine layer.

Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
2016-02-29 12:58:44 +00:00

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=pod
=head1 NAME
SSL_waiting_for_async, SSL_get_all_async_fds, SSL_get_changed_async_fds - manage
asynchronous operations
=head1 SYNOPSIS
#include <openssl/ssl.h>
int SSL_waiting_for_async(SSL *s);
int SSL_get_all_async_fds(SSL *s, OSSL_ASYNC_FD *fd, size_t *numfds);
int SSL_get_changed_async_fds(SSL *s, OSSL_ASYNC_FD *addfd, size_t *numaddfds,
OSSL_ASYNC_FD *delfd, size_t *numdelfds);
=head1 DESCRIPTION
SSL_waiting_for_async() determines whether an SSL connection is currently
waiting for asynchronous operations to complete (see the SSL_MODE_ASYNC mode in
L<SSL_CTX_set_mode(3)>).
SSL_get_all_async_fds() returns a list of file descriptor which can be used in a
call to select() or poll() to determine whether the current asynchronous
operation has completed or not. A completed operation will result in data
appearing as "read ready" on the file descriptor (no actual data should be read
from the file descriptor). This function should only be called if the SSL object
is currently waiting for asynchronous work to complete (i.e.
SSL_ERROR_WANT_ASYNC has been received - see L<SSL_get_error(3)>). Typically the
list will only contain one file descriptor. However if multiple asynchronous
capable engines are in use then more than one is possible. The number of file
descriptors returned is stored in B<*numfds> and the file descriptors themselves
are in B<*fds>. The B<fds> parameter may be NULL in which case no file
descriptors are returned but B<*numfds> is still populated. It is the callers
responsibility to ensure sufficient memory is allocated at B<*fds> so typically
this function is called twice (once with a NULL B<fds> parameter and once
without).
SSL_get_changed_async_fds() returns a list of the asynchronous file descriptors
that have been added and a list that have been deleted since the last
SSL_ERROR_WANT_ASYNC was received (or since the SSL object was created if no
SSL_ERROR_WANT_ASYNC has been received). Similar to SSL_get_all_async_fds() it
is the callers responsibility to ensure that B<*addfd> and B<*delfd> have
sufficient memory allocated, although they may be NULL. The number of added fds
and the number of deleted fds are stored in B<*numaddfds> and B<*numdelfds>
respectively.
=head1 RETURN VALUES
SSL_waiting_for_async() will return 1 if the current SSL operation is waiting
for an async operation to complete and 0 otherwise.
SSL_get_all_async_fds() and SSL_get_changed_async_fds() return 1 on success or
0 on error.
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<SSL_get_error(3)>, L<SSL_CTX_set_mode(3)>
=head1 HISTORY
SSL_waiting_for_async(), SSL_get_all_async_fds() and SSL_get_changed_async_fds()
were first added to OpenSSL 1.1.0.
=cut