# HG changeset patch
# User Maxim Dounin <mdounin@mdounin.ru>
# Date 1665594883 -10800
# Node ID f106f4a68fafe831735972000f82959bc5622f84
# Parent  5244d3b165ff0a12eb2cf55590372f01e614bd1e
SSL: explicit clearing of expired sessions.

This reduces lifetime of session keying material in server's memory, and
therefore can be beneficial from forward secrecy point of view.

diff --git a/src/event/ngx_event_openssl.c b/src/event/ngx_event_openssl.c
--- a/src/event/ngx_event_openssl.c
+++ b/src/event/ngx_event_openssl.c
@@ -4031,6 +4031,8 @@ ngx_ssl_get_cached_session(ngx_ssl_conn_
 
             ngx_rbtree_delete(&cache->session_rbtree, node);
 
+            ngx_explicit_memzero(sess_id->session, sess_id->len);
+
 #if (NGX_PTR_SIZE == 8)
             ngx_slab_free_locked(shpool, sess_id->session);
 #endif
@@ -4120,6 +4122,8 @@ ngx_ssl_remove_session(SSL_CTX *ssl, ngx
 
             ngx_rbtree_delete(&cache->session_rbtree, node);
 
+            ngx_explicit_memzero(sess_id->session, sess_id->len);
+
 #if (NGX_PTR_SIZE == 8)
             ngx_slab_free_locked(shpool, sess_id->session);
 #endif
@@ -4168,6 +4172,8 @@ ngx_ssl_expire_sessions(ngx_ssl_session_
 
         ngx_rbtree_delete(&cache->session_rbtree, &sess_id->node);
 
+        ngx_explicit_memzero(sess_id->session, sess_id->len);
+
 #if (NGX_PTR_SIZE == 8)
         ngx_slab_free_locked(shpool, sess_id->session);
 #endif