Re: (ITS#6811) Patch - Mozilla NSS - disable pkcs11 fork checking for the software token

[hyc@symas.com]

rmeggins@redhat.com wrote:
> Full_Name: Rich Megginson
> Version: 2.4.23 (current CVS HEAD)
> OS: RHEL6
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/openldap-2.4.23-moznss-disable-nofork-20110127.patch
> Submission from: (NULL) (76.113.111.209)
>
>
> There are some applications that acquire a crypto context in the parent process
> and expect that crypto context to work after a fork().  This does not work
> with MozNSS using strict PKCS11 compliance mode.  We set the environment
> variable NSS_STRICT_NOFORK=DISABLED in tlsm_init() to tell the software
> encryption module/token to allow crypto contexts to persist across a fork().
> However, if you are using some other module or encryption device that supports
> and expects full PKCS11 semantics, the only recourse is to modify the
> application to use atfork() handlers to save the crypto context in the parent
> and restore (and SECMOD_RestartModules) the context in the child.

Sounds like this is a followon to #6802. Is this really critical at this 
point? We really need to close the window on RE24 patches so we can actually 
cut a release. But if ITS#6802 is actually incomplete, I guess we should roll 
this in.

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>
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