commit 4dc189a9047931599f524a7c7dc5b447f3915409 Author: George Kadianakis desnacked@riseup.net Date: Fri Jan 11 12:06:14 2019 +0200

Clarify immutability of global padding machine specs. --- src/core/or/circuit_st.h | 4 +++- src/core/or/circuitpadding.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/core/or/circuit_st.h b/src/core/or/circuit_st.h index 47639940d..29bcaa098 100644 --- a/src/core/or/circuit_st.h +++ b/src/core/or/circuit_st.h @@ -185,7 +185,9 @@ struct circuit_t {

/** Adaptive Padding state machines: these are immutable. The state machines * that come from the consensus are saved to a global structure, to avoid - * per-circuit allocations. This merely points to the global copy. + * per-circuit allocations. This merely points to the global copy in + * origin_padding_machines or relay_padding_machines that should never + * change or get deallocated. * * Each element of this array corresponds to a different padding machine, * and we can have up to CIRCPAD_MAX_MACHINES such machines. */ diff --git a/src/core/or/circuitpadding.c b/src/core/or/circuitpadding.c index 36fcbb503..0dadc5213 100644 --- a/src/core/or/circuitpadding.c +++ b/src/core/or/circuitpadding.c @@ -87,11 +87,19 @@ static uint64_t circpad_global_padding_sent; static uint64_t circpad_global_nonpadding_sent;

/** This is the list of circpad_machine_spec_t's parsed from consensus and - * torrc that have origin_side == 1 (ie: are for client side) */ + * torrc that have origin_side == 1 (ie: are for client side). + * + * The machines in this smartlist are considered immutable and they are used + * as-is by circuits so they should not change or get deallocated in Tor's + * runtime and as long as circuits are alive. */ STATIC smartlist_t *origin_padding_machines = NULL;

/** This is the list of circpad_machine_spec_t's parsed from consensus and - * torrc that have origin_side == 0 (ie: are for relay side) */ + * torrc that have origin_side == 0 (ie: are for relay side). + * + * The machines in this smartlist are considered immutable and they are used + * as-is by circuits so they should not change or get deallocated in Tor's + * runtime and as long as circuits are alive. */ STATIC smartlist_t *relay_padding_machines = NULL;

/** Loop over the current padding state machines using <b>loop_var</b> as the