5 CRYPTO_THREADID_set_callback, CRYPTO_THREADID_get_callback,
6 CRYPTO_THREADID_current, CRYPTO_THREADID_cmp, CRYPTO_THREADID_cpy,
7 CRYPTO_THREADID_hash, CRYPTO_set_locking_callback, CRYPTO_num_locks,
8 CRYPTO_set_dynlock_create_callback, CRYPTO_set_dynlock_lock_callback,
9 CRYPTO_set_dynlock_destroy_callback, CRYPTO_get_new_dynlockid,
10 CRYPTO_destroy_dynlockid, CRYPTO_lock - OpenSSL thread support
14 #include <openssl/crypto.h>
16 /* Don't use this structure directly. */
17 typedef struct crypto_threadid_st
22 /* Only use CRYPTO_THREADID_set_[numeric|pointer]() within callbacks */
23 void CRYPTO_THREADID_set_numeric(CRYPTO_THREADID *id, unsigned long val);
24 void CRYPTO_THREADID_set_pointer(CRYPTO_THREADID *id, void *ptr);
25 int CRYPTO_THREADID_set_callback(void (*threadid_func)(CRYPTO_THREADID *));
26 void (*CRYPTO_THREADID_get_callback(void))(CRYPTO_THREADID *);
27 void CRYPTO_THREADID_current(CRYPTO_THREADID *id);
28 int CRYPTO_THREADID_cmp(const CRYPTO_THREADID *a,
29 const CRYPTO_THREADID *b);
30 void CRYPTO_THREADID_cpy(CRYPTO_THREADID *dest,
31 const CRYPTO_THREADID *src);
32 unsigned long CRYPTO_THREADID_hash(const CRYPTO_THREADID *id);
34 int CRYPTO_num_locks(void);
36 /* struct CRYPTO_dynlock_value needs to be defined by the user */
37 struct CRYPTO_dynlock_value;
39 void CRYPTO_set_dynlock_create_callback(struct CRYPTO_dynlock_value *
40 (*dyn_create_function)(char *file, int line));
41 void CRYPTO_set_dynlock_lock_callback(void (*dyn_lock_function)
42 (int mode, struct CRYPTO_dynlock_value *l,
43 const char *file, int line));
44 void CRYPTO_set_dynlock_destroy_callback(void (*dyn_destroy_function)
45 (struct CRYPTO_dynlock_value *l, const char *file, int line));
47 int CRYPTO_get_new_dynlockid(void);
49 void CRYPTO_destroy_dynlockid(int i);
51 void CRYPTO_lock(int mode, int n, const char *file, int line);
53 #define CRYPTO_w_lock(type) \
54 CRYPTO_lock(CRYPTO_LOCK|CRYPTO_WRITE,type,__FILE__,__LINE__)
55 #define CRYPTO_w_unlock(type) \
56 CRYPTO_lock(CRYPTO_UNLOCK|CRYPTO_WRITE,type,__FILE__,__LINE__)
57 #define CRYPTO_r_lock(type) \
58 CRYPTO_lock(CRYPTO_LOCK|CRYPTO_READ,type,__FILE__,__LINE__)
59 #define CRYPTO_r_unlock(type) \
60 CRYPTO_lock(CRYPTO_UNLOCK|CRYPTO_READ,type,__FILE__,__LINE__)
61 #define CRYPTO_add(addr,amount,type) \
62 CRYPTO_add_lock(addr,amount,type,__FILE__,__LINE__)
66 OpenSSL can safely be used in multi-threaded applications provided
67 that at least two callback functions are set, locking_function and
70 locking_function(int mode, int n, const char *file, int line) is
71 needed to perform locking on shared data structures.
72 (Note that OpenSSL uses a number of global data structures that
73 will be implicitly shared whenever multiple threads use OpenSSL.)
74 Multi-threaded applications will crash at random if it is not set.
76 locking_function() must be able to handle up to CRYPTO_num_locks()
77 different mutex locks. It sets the B<n>-th lock if B<mode> &
78 B<CRYPTO_LOCK>, and releases it otherwise.
80 B<file> and B<line> are the file number of the function setting the
81 lock. They can be useful for debugging.
83 threadid_func(CRYPTO_THREADID *id) is needed to record the currently-executing
84 thread's identifier into B<id>. The implementation of this callback should not
85 fill in B<id> directly, but should use CRYPTO_THREADID_set_numeric() if thread
86 IDs are numeric, or CRYPTO_THREADID_set_pointer() if they are pointer-based.
87 If the application does not register such a callback using
88 CRYPTO_THREADID_set_callback(), then a default implementation is used - on
89 Windows and BeOS this uses the system's default thread identifying APIs, and on
90 all other platforms it uses the address of B<errno>. The latter is satisfactory
91 for thread-safety if and only if the platform has a thread-local error number
94 Once threadid_func() is registered, or if the built-in default implementation is
100 CRYPTO_THREADID_current() records the currently-executing thread ID into the
104 CRYPTO_THREADID_cmp() compares two thread IDs (returning zero for equality, ie.
105 the same semantics as memcmp()).
108 CRYPTO_THREADID_cpy() duplicates a thread ID value,
111 CRYPTO_THREADID_hash() returns a numeric value usable as a hash-table key. This
112 is usually the exact numeric or pointer-based thread ID used internally, however
113 this also handles the unusual case where pointers are larger than 'long'
114 variables and the platform's thread IDs are pointer-based - in this case, mixing
115 is done to attempt to produce a unique numeric value even though it is not as
116 wide as the platform's true thread IDs.
120 Additionally, OpenSSL supports dynamic locks, and sometimes, some parts
121 of OpenSSL need it for better performance. To enable this, the following
127 Three additional callback function, dyn_create_function, dyn_lock_function
128 and dyn_destroy_function.
131 A structure defined with the data that each lock needs to handle.
135 struct CRYPTO_dynlock_value has to be defined to contain whatever structure
136 is needed to handle locks.
138 dyn_create_function(const char *file, int line) is needed to create a
139 lock. Multi-threaded applications might crash at random if it is not set.
141 dyn_lock_function(int mode, CRYPTO_dynlock *l, const char *file, int line)
142 is needed to perform locking off dynamic lock numbered n. Multi-threaded
143 applications might crash at random if it is not set.
145 dyn_destroy_function(CRYPTO_dynlock *l, const char *file, int line) is
146 needed to destroy the lock l. Multi-threaded applications might crash at
147 random if it is not set.
149 CRYPTO_get_new_dynlockid() is used to create locks. It will call
150 dyn_create_function for the actual creation.
152 CRYPTO_destroy_dynlockid() is used to destroy locks. It will call
153 dyn_destroy_function for the actual destruction.
155 CRYPTO_lock() is used to lock and unlock the locks. mode is a bitfield
156 describing what should be done with the lock. n is the number of the
157 lock as returned from CRYPTO_get_new_dynlockid(). mode can be combined
158 from the following values. These values are pairwise exclusive, with
159 undefined behaviour if misused (for example, CRYPTO_READ and CRYPTO_WRITE
160 should not be used together):
169 CRYPTO_num_locks() returns the required number of locks.
171 CRYPTO_get_new_dynlockid() returns the index to the newly created lock.
173 The other functions return no values.
177 You can find out if OpenSSL was configured with thread support:
179 #define OPENSSL_THREAD_DEFINES
180 #include <openssl/opensslconf.h>
181 #if defined(OPENSSL_THREADS)
182 // thread support enabled
187 Also, dynamic locks are currently not used internally by OpenSSL, but
188 may do so in the future.
192 B<crypto/threads/mttest.c> shows examples of the callback functions on
193 Solaris, Irix and Win32.
197 CRYPTO_set_locking_callback() is
198 available in all versions of SSLeay and OpenSSL.
199 CRYPTO_num_locks() was added in OpenSSL 0.9.4.
200 All functions dealing with dynamic locks were added in OpenSSL 0.9.5b-dev.
201 B<CRYPTO_THREADID> and associated functions were introduced in OpenSSL 1.0.0
202 to replace (actually, deprecate) the previous CRYPTO_set_id_callback(),
203 CRYPTO_get_id_callback(), and CRYPTO_thread_id() functions which assumed
204 thread IDs to always be represented by 'unsigned long'.
208 L<crypto(3)|crypto(3)>