OTC VOTE: Fixing missing failure exit status is a bug fix

[Dr Paul Dale]

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Pauli
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Dr Paul Dale | Distinguished Architect | Cryptographic Foundations 
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> On 30 Nov 2020, at 10:03 pm, Nicola Tuveri <nic.tuv at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Vote background
> ---------------
> 
> This follows up on a [previous proposal] that was abandoned in favor of
> an OMC vote on the behavior change introduced in [PR#13359].
> Within today's OTC meeting this was further discussed with the attending
> members that also sit in the OMC.
> 
> The suggestion was to improve the separation of the OTC and OMC domains
> here, by having a more generic OTC vote to qualify as bug fixes the
> changes to let any OpenSSL app return an (early) failure exit status
> when a called function fails.
> 
> The idea is that, if we agree on this technical definition, then no OMC
> vote to allow a behavior change in the apps would be required in
> general, unless, on a case-by-case basis, the "OMC hold" process is
> invoked for whatever reason on the specific bug fix, triggering the
> usual OMC decision process.
> 
> [previous proposal]:
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.mail-archive.com/openssl-project@openssl.org/msg02241.html__;!!GqivPVa7Brio!NfJCTAAdJkitIZUnDXhh3CXZemoyuA3itUSr_vTfjZ4LQ9DnVDhBUKj0pihFNy0$ >
> [PR#13359]: <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/13359__;!!GqivPVa7Brio!NfJCTAAdJkitIZUnDXhh3CXZemoyuA3itUSr_vTfjZ4LQ9DnVDhBUKj0zvqbao4$ >
> 
> 
> 
> Vote text
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> 
> topic: In the context of the OpenSSL apps, the OTC qualifies as bug
>       fixes the changes to return a failure exit status when a called
>       function fails with an unhandled return value.
>       Even when these bug fixes change the apps behavior triggering
>       early exits (compared to previous versions of the apps), as bug
>       fixes, they do not qualify as behavior changes that require an
>       explicit OMC approval.
> Proposed by Nicola Tuveri
> Public: yes
> opened: 2020-11-30

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