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Re: [Qemu-devel] Error when attempting to perform TLS NBD connection
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Daniel P. Berrange |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] Error when attempting to perform TLS NBD connection |
Date: |
Wed, 6 Apr 2016 12:13:35 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) |
On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 09:01:10PM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
> When I attempt to connect via TLS like this (using today's qemu master):
>
> ./qemu-img info --object
> tls-creds-x509,id=tls0,dir=../certs,endpoint=client --image-opts
> driver=nbd,host=127.0.0.1,port=6666,export=foo,tls-creds=tls0
>
> (command line from Daniel over IRC)
>
> I get the rather opaque error:
>
> qemu-img: Unable to initialize certificate
>
> and with the patch I sent through I get the not much less opaque error:
>
> qemu-img: Unable to initialize certificate: ASN1 parser: Element was not
> found.
>
> gdb indicates this is crypto/tlscredsx509.c:399 where
> gnutls_x509_crt_init(&cert) fails.
So the problem turned out to be that the qemu-img program failed to
call qcrypto_init(), so gnutls had not had its one-time initialization
performed. This doesn't matter for gnutls 3.x but does for anything
older than that. I just copied you on a patch to fix this.
Regards,
Daniel
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