Merge pull request #539 from alexcrichton/zero-write

Handle zero-length writes in SSL_write

2 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/openssl/src/ssl/mod.rs b/openssl/src/ssl/mod.rs
index 6e0c92c3..47c83453 100644
--- a/openssl/src/ssl/mod.rs
+++ b/openssl/src/ssl/mod.rs
@@ -1506,6 +1506,15 @@ impl<S: Read + Write> SslStream<S> {
     /// This is particularly useful with a nonblocking socket, where the error
     /// value will identify if OpenSSL is waiting on read or write readiness.
     pub fn ssl_read(&mut self, buf: &mut [u8]) -> Result<usize, Error> {
+        // The intepretation of the return code here is a little odd with a
+        // zero-length write. OpenSSL will likely correctly report back to us
+        // that it read zero bytes, but zero is also the sentinel for "error".
+        // To avoid that confusion short-circuit that logic and return quickly
+        // if `buf` has a length of zero.
+        if buf.len() == 0 {
+            return Ok(0)
+        }
+
         let ret = self.ssl.read(buf);
         if ret > 0 {
             Ok(ret as usize)
@@ -1523,6 +1532,11 @@ impl<S: Read + Write> SslStream<S> {
     /// This is particularly useful with a nonblocking socket, where the error
     /// value will identify if OpenSSL is waiting on read or write readiness.
     pub fn ssl_write(&mut self, buf: &[u8]) -> Result<usize, Error> {
+        // See above for why we short-circuit on zero-length buffers
+        if buf.len() == 0 {
+            return Ok(0)
+        }
+
         let ret = self.ssl.write(buf);
         if ret > 0 {
             Ok(ret as usize)
diff --git a/openssl/src/ssl/tests/mod.rs b/openssl/src/ssl/tests/mod.rs
index 2f6bbe1f..66f9dca9 100644
--- a/openssl/src/ssl/tests/mod.rs
+++ b/openssl/src/ssl/tests/mod.rs
@@ -421,6 +421,16 @@ fn test_write() {
     stream.flush().unwrap();
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn zero_length_buffers() {
+    let (_s, stream) = Server::new();
+    let ctx = SslContext::builder(SslMethod::tls()).unwrap();
+    let mut stream = Ssl::new(&ctx.build()).unwrap().connect(stream).unwrap();
+
+    assert_eq!(stream.write(b"").unwrap(), 0);
+    assert_eq!(stream.read(&mut []).unwrap(), 0);
+}
+
 run_test!(get_peer_certificate, |method, stream| {
     let ctx = SslContext::builder(method).unwrap();
     let stream = Ssl::new(&ctx.build()).unwrap().connect(stream).unwrap();