Test for constant-time flag leakage in BN_CTX
This commit adds a simple unit test to make sure that the constant-time
flag does not "leak" among BN_CTX frames:
- test_ctx_consttime_flag() initializes (and later frees before
returning) a BN_CTX object, then it calls in sequence
test_ctx_set_ct_flag() and test_ctx_check_ct_flag() using the same
BN_CTX object. The process is run twice, once with a "normal"
BN_CTX_new() object, then with a BN_CTX_secure_new() one.
- test_ctx_set_ct_flag() starts a frame in the given BN_CTX and sets the
BN_FLG_CONSTTIME flag on some of the BIGNUMs obtained from the frame
before ending it.
- test_ctx_check_ct_flag() then starts a new frame and gets a number of
BIGNUMs from it. In absence of leaks, none of the BIGNUMs in the new
frame should have BN_FLG_CONSTTIME set.
In actual BN_CTX usage inside libcrypto the leak could happen at any
depth level in the BN_CTX stack, with varying results depending on the
patterns of sibling trees of nested function calls sharing the same
BN_CTX object, and the effect of unintended BN_FLG_CONSTTIME on the
called BN_* functions.
This simple unit test abstracts away this complexity and verifies that
the leak does not happen between two sibling functions sharing the same
BN_CTX object at the same level of nesting.
(manually cherry picked from commit
fe16ae5f95fa86ddb049a8d1e2caee0b80b32282)
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/8294)