Merge pull request #646 from jboeuf/ssl_roots_file

Adding a constant for a well known place where the SSL roots are installed.

include/grpc/grpc_security.h

@@ -73,8 +73,11 @@ typedef struct {
 
 /* Creates an SSL credentials object.
    - pem_roots_cert is the NULL-terminated string containing the PEM encoding
-     of the server root certificates. If this parameter is NULL, the default
-     roots will be used.
+     of the server root certificates. If this parameter is NULL, the
+     implementation will first try to dereference the file pointed by the
+     GRPC_DEFAULT_SSL_ROOTS_FILE_PATH environment variable, and if that fails,
+     will try to dereference the GRPC_SSL_ROOTS_WELL_KNOWN_PATH defined in
+     ssl_roots.h (which value is patched during the grpc Install process).
    - pem_key_cert_pair is a pointer on the object containing client's private
      key and certificate chain. This parameter can be NULL if the client does
      not have such a key/cert pair.  */

src/core/security/security_context.c

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 #include "src/core/channel/http_client_filter.h"
 #include "src/core/security/credentials.h"
 #include "src/core/security/secure_endpoint.h"
+#include "src/core/security/ssl_roots.h"
 #include "src/core/support/env.h"
 #include "src/core/support/file.h"
 #include "src/core/support/string.h"
@@ -403,6 +404,10 @@ static void init_default_pem_root_certs(void) {
   } else {
     default_pem_root_certs = gpr_load_file(default_root_certs_path, NULL);
     gpr_free(default_root_certs_path);
+    if (GPR_SLICE_IS_EMPTY(default_pem_root_certs)) {
+      default_pem_root_certs =
+          gpr_load_file(GRPC_SSL_ROOTS_WELL_KNOWN_PATH, NULL);
+    }
   }
 }
 

src/core/security/ssl_roots.h

+/*
+ *
+ * Copyright 2015, Google Inc.
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+ */
+
+#ifndef __GRPC_INTERNAL_SECURITY_SSL_ROOTS_H__
+#define __GRPC_INTERNAL_SECURITY_SSL_ROOTS_H__
+
+/* WARNING: this value is patched at install time. */
+#define GRPC_SSL_ROOTS_WELL_KNOWN_PATH "/etc/grpc/roots.pem"
+
+#endif /* __GRPC_INTERNAL_SECURITY_SSL_ROOTS_H__ */