The old implementation would fail with super-long inputs. We never
gave it any, but still, it's nicer to dtrt here.
Reported by Guido Vranken. Fixes bug 19281.
- Fix various ssize_t/size_t confusions in the tests.
- Fix a weird memset argument:
"bad_memset: Argument -16 in memset loses precision in
memset(&desc_two->blinded_kp.pubkey.pubkey, -16, 32UL)."
- Fix check_after_deref instance in check_state_line_for_service_rev_counter():
"check_after_deref: Null-checking items suggests that it may be null,
but it has already been dereferenced on all paths leading to the
check."
Add a common function for both legacy and prop224 hidden service to increment
and decrement the rendezvous stream counter on an origin circuit.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
We used to have a small HS desc cert lifetime but those certs can stick
around for 36 hours if they get initialized in the beginning of overlap
period.
[warn] Bug: Non-fatal assertion !(hs_desc_encode_descriptor(desc->desc, &desc->signing_kp, &encoded_desc) < 0) failed in
upload_descriptor_to_hsdir at src/or/hs_service.c:1886. Stack trace: (on Tor 0.3.2.0-alpha-dev b4a14555597fb9b3)
I repurposed the old directory_request_set_hs_ident() into a new
directory_request_upload_set_hs_ident() which is only used for the
upload purpose and so it can assert on the dir_purpose.
When coding the client-side we can make a second function for fetch.
We used to do:
h = H(BLIND_STRING | H(A | s | B | N )
when we should be doing:
h = H(BLIND_STRING | A | s | B | N)
Change the logic so that hs_common.c does the hashing, and our ed25519
libraries just receive the hashed parameter ready-made. That's easier
than doing the hashing on the ed25519 libraries, since that means we
would have to pass them a variable-length param (depending on whether
's' is set or not).
Also fix the ed25519 test vectors since they were also double hashing.
We also had to alter the SRV functions to take a consensus as optional
input, since we might be setting our HSDir index using a consensus that
is currently being processed and won't be returned by the
networkstatus_get_live_consensus() function.
This change has two results:
a) It makes sure we are using a fresh consensus with the right SRV value
when we are calculating the HSDir hash ring.
b) It ensures that we will not use the sr_get_current/previous()
functions when we don't have a consensus which would have falsely
triggered the disaster SRV logic.
In Nick's words:
"We want to always return false if the platform is a Tor version, and it
is not as new as 0.3.0.8 -- but if the platform is not a Tor version, or
if the version is as new as 0.3.0.8, then we want to obey the protocol
list.
That way, other implementations of our protocol won't have to claim any
particular Tor version, and future versions of Tor will have the freedom
to drop this protocol in the distant future."
- Fix log message format string.
- Do extra circuit purpose check.
- wipe memory in a clear function
- Make sure we don't double add intro points in our list
- Make sure we don't double close intro circuits.
- s/tt_u64_op/tt_i64_op/
Turns out that introduction points don't care about the INTRODUCE2 cell
format as long as the top field is LEGACY_KEY_ID as expected. So let's
use a single INTRODUCE format regardless of the introduction point being
legacy or not.
This also removes the polymorphic void* situation.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
We consider to be in overlap mode when we are in the period of time between a
fresh SRV and the beginning of the new time period (in the normal network this
is between 00:00 and 12:00 UTC). This commit edits that function to use the
above semantic logic instead of absolute times.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
It used to be that time periods were 24 hours long even on chutney,
which made testing harder. With this commit, time periods have the same
length as a full SRV protocol run, which means that they will change
every 4 minutes in a 10-second voting interval chutney network!
Make this function public so we can use it both in hs_circuit.c and
hs_service.c to avoid code duplication.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
This introduces a callback to relaunch a service rendezvous circuit when a
previous one failed to build or expired.
It unifies the legacy function rend_service_relaunch_rendezvous() with one for
specific to prop224. There is now only one entry point for that which is
hs_circ_retry_service_rendezvous_point() supporting both legacy and prop224
circuits.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
Change the timing for intro point's lifetime and maximum amount of circuit we
are allowed to launch in a TestingNetwork. This is particurlarly useful for
chutney testing to test intro point rotation.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
When the circuit is about to be freed which has been marked close before, for
introduction circuit we now call this has_closed() callback so we can cleanup
any introduction point that have retried to many times or at least flag them
that their circuit is not established anymore.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
We used to use NULL subcredential which is a terrible terrible idea. Refactor
HS unittests to use subcredentials.
Also add some non-fatal asserts to make sure that we always use subcredentials
when decoding/encoding descs.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
This commit refactors the handle_hs_exit_conn() function introduced at a prior
commit that connects the rendezvous circuit to the edge connection used to
connect to the service virtual port requested in a BEGIN cell.
The refactor adds the support for prop224 adding the
hs_service_set_conn_addr_port() function that has the same purpose has
rend_service_set_connection_addr_port() from the legacy code.
The rend_service_set_connection_addr_port() has also been a bit refactored so
the common code can be shared between the two HS subsystems (legacy and
prop224).
In terms of functionallity, nothing has changed, we still close the circuits
in case of failure for the same reasons as the legacy system currently does.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
This commit simply moves the code from the if condition of a rendezvous
circuit to a function to handle such a connection. No code was modified
_except_ the use or rh.stream_id changed to n_stream->stream_id so we don't
have to pass the cell header to the function.
This is groundwork for prop224 support which will break down the
handle_hs_exit_conn() depending on the version of hidden service the circuit
and edge connection is for.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
Introduction point are rotated either if we get X amounts of INTRODUCE2 cells
on it or a time based expiration. This commit adds two consensus parameters
which are the min and max value bounding the random value X.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
Imagine a Tor network where you have only 8 nodes available due to some
reasons. And your hidden service wants 8 introduction points. Everything is
fine but then a node goes down bringing the network to 7. The service will
retry 3 times that node and then give up but keep it in a failure cache for 5
minutes (INTRO_CIRC_RETRY_PERIOD) so it doesn't retry it non stop and exhaust
the maximum number of circuit retry.
In the real public network today, this is unlikely to happen unless the
ExcludeNodes list is extremely restrictive.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
This commit adds a directory command function to make an upload directory
request for a service descriptor.
It is not used yet, just the groundwork.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
This hsdir index value is used to give an index value to all node_t (relays)
that supports HSDir v3. An index value is then computed using the blinded key
to know where to fetch/upload the service descriptor from/to.
To avoid computing that index value everytime the client/service needs it, we
do that everytime we get a new consensus which then doesn't change until the
next one. The downside is that we need to sort them once we need to compute
the set of responsible HSDir.
Finally, the "hs_index" function is also added but not used. It will be used
in later commits to compute which node_t is a responsible HSDir for the
service we want to fetch/upload the descriptor.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
Add this helper function that can lookup and return all the needed object from
a circuit identifier. It is a pattern we do often so make it nicer and avoid
duplicating it everywhere.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
Add the entry point from the circuit subsystem of "circuit has opened" which
is for all type of hidden service circuits. For the introduction point, this
commit actually adds the support for handling those circuits when opened and
sending ESTABLISH_INTRO on a circuit.
Rendevzou point circuit aren't supported yet at this commit.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
This commit adds the functionality for a service to build its descriptor.
Also, a global call to build all descriptors for all services is added to the
service scheduled events.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
Add the main loop entry point to the HS service subsystem. It is run every
second and make sure that all services are in their quiescent state after that
which means valid descriptors, all needed circuits opened and latest
descriptors have been uploaded.
For now, only v2 is supported and placeholders for v3 actions for that main
loop callback.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
Add a function for both the client and service side that is building a blinded
key from a keypair (service) and from a public key (client). Those two
functions uses the current time period information to build the key.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
Add a new and free function for hs_desc_intro_point_t so the service can use
them to setup those objects properly.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
Fortunately, we only support big-endian and little-endian platforms,
and on both of those, hton*() and ntoh*() behave the same. And if
we did start to support middle endian systems (haha, no), most of
_those_ have hton*(x) == ntoh*(x) too.
Since we start with desc_clean_since = 0, we should have been
starting with non-null desc_dirty_reason.
Fixes bug 22884; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha when X-Desc-Gen-Reason was
added.
Patch from Vort; fixes bug 23081; bugfix on fd992deeea in
0.2.1.16-rc when set_main_thread() was introduced.
See the changes file for a list of all the symptoms this bug has
been causing when running Tor as a Windows Service.
The condition was always true meaning that we would reconsider updating our
directory information every 2 minutes.
If valid_until is 6am today, then now - 24h == 1pm yesterday which means that
"valid_until < (now - 24h)" is false. But at 6:01am tomorrow, "valid_until <
(now - 24h)" becomes true which is that point that we shouldn't trust the
consensus anymore.
Fixes#23091
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
One log statement was a warning and has been forgotten. It is triggered for a
successful attempt at introducting from a client.
It has been reported here:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2017-August/012689.html
Three other log_warn() statement changed to protocol warning because they are
errors that basically can come from the network and thus triggered by anyone.
Fixes#23078.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
Now that half the threads are permissive and half are strict, we
need to make sure we have at least two threads, so that we'll
have at least one of each kind.
A prop224 descriptor was missing the onion key for an introduction point which
is needed to extend to it by the client.
Closes#22979
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
Remove the legacy intro point key because both service and client only uses
the ed25519 key even though the intro point chosen is a legacy one.
This also adds the CLIENT_PK key that is needed for the ntor handshake.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
We need to keep these around for TAP and old-style hidden services,
but they're obsolete, and we shouldn't encourage anyone to use them.
So I've added "obsolete" to their names, and a comment explaining
what the problem is.
Closes ticket 23026.
It makes more sense to have the version in the configuration object of the
service because it is afterall a torrc option (HiddenServiceVersion).
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
The added function frees any allocated pointers in a service configuration
object and reset all values to 0.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
As per nickm suggestion, an array of config handlers will not play well with
our callgraph tool.
Instead, we'll go with a switch case on the version which has a good side
effect of allowing us to control what we pass to the function intead of a fix
set of parameters.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
Add a helper function to parse uint64_t and also does logging so we can reduce
the amount of duplicate code.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
This tests our hs_config.c API to properly load v3 services and register them
to the global map. It does NOT test the service object validity, that will be
the hs service unit test later on.
At this commit, we have 100% code coverage of hs_config.c.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
Every hidden service option don't apply to every version so this new function
makes sure we don't have for instance an option that is only for v2 in a v3
configured service.
This works using an exclude lists for a specific version. Right now, there is
only one option that is not allowed in v3. The rest is common.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
Try to load or/and generate service keys for v3. This write both the public
and private key file to disk along with the hostname file containing the onion
address.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
This also adds unit test and a small python script generating a deterministic
test vector that a unit test tries to match.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
This commit adds the support in the HS subsystem for loading a service from a
set of or_options_t and put them in a staging list.
To achieve this, service accessors have been created and a global hash map
containing service object indexed by master public key. However, this is not
used for now. It's ground work for registration process.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
Introduces hs_init() located in hs_common.c which initialize the entire HS v3
subsystem. This is done _prior_ to the options being loaded because we need to
allocate global data structure before we load the configuration.
The hs_free_all() is added to release everything from tor_free_all().
Note that both functions do NOT handle v2 service subsystem but does handle
the common interface that both v2 and v3 needs such as the cache and
circuitmap.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
Add the hs_config.{c|h} files contains everything that the HS subsystem needs
to load and configure services. Ultimately, it should also contain client
functions such as client authorization.
This comes with a big refactoring of rend_config_services() which has now
changed to only configure a single service and it is stripped down of the
common directives which are now part of the generic handler.
This is ground work for prop224 of course but only touches version 2 services
and add XXX note for version 3.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
This object is the foundation of proposal 224 service work. It will change
and be adapted as it's being used more and more in the codebase. So, this
version is just a basic skeleton one that *will* change.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
These statistics were largely ununsed, and kept track of statistical information
on things like how many time we had done TLS or how many signatures we had
verified. This information is largely not useful, and would only be logged
after receiving a SIGUSR1 signal (but only if the logging severity level was
less than LOG_INFO).
* FIXES#19871.
* REMOVES note_crypto_pk_op(), dump_pk_op(), and pk_op_counts from
src/or/rephist.c.
* REMOVES every external call to these functions.
Relay operators (especially bridge operators) can use this to lower
or raise the number of consensuses that they're willing to hold for
diff generation purposes.
This enables a workaround for bug 22883.
Groundwork for more prop224 service and client code. This object contains
common data that both client and service uses.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
- Move some crypto structures so that they are visible by tests.
- Introduce a func to count number of hops in cpath which will be used
by the tests.
- Mark a function as mockable.
This commit paves the way for the e2e circuit unittests.
Add a stub for the prop224 equivalent of rend_client_note_connection_attempt_ended().
That function was needed for tests, since the legacy function would get
called when we attach streams and our client-side tests would crash with
assert failures on rend_data.
This also introduces hs_client.[ch] to the codebase.
This commit adds most of the work of #21859. It introduces hs_circuit.c
functions that can handle the setup of e2e circuits for prop224 hidden
services, and also for legacy hidden service clients. Entry points are:
prop224 circuits: hs_circuit_setup_e2e_rend_circ()
legacy client-side circuits: hs_circuit_setup_e2e_rend_circ_legacy_client()
This commit swaps the old rendclient code to use the new API.
I didn't try to accomodate the legacy service-side code in this API, since
that's too tangled up and it would mess up the new API considerably IMO (all
this service_pending_final_cpath_ref stuff is complicated and I didn't want to
change it).
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
The legacy HS circuit code uses rend_data to match between circuits and
streams. We refactor some of that code so that it understands hs_ident
as well which is used for prop224.
circuit_init_cpath_crypto() is responsible for creating the cpath of legacy
SHA1/AES128 circuits currently. We want to use it for prop224 circuits, so we
refactor it to create circuits with SHA3-256 and AES256 as well.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
We want to use the circuit_init_cpath_crypto() function to setup our
cpath, and that function accepts a key array as input. So let's make our
HS ntor key expansion function also return a key array as output,
instead of a struct.
Also, we actually don't need KH from the key expansion, so the key
expansion output can be one DIGEST256_LEN shorter. See here for more
info: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22052#comment:3
When the new path selection logic went into place, I accidentally
dropped the code that considered the _family_ of the exit node when
deciding if the guard was usable, and we didn't catch that during
code review.
This patch makes the guard_restriction_t code consider the exit
family as well, and adds some (hopefully redundant) checks for the
case where we lack a node_t for a guard but we have a bridge_info_t
for it.
Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2016-006
and CVE-2017-0377.
This makes our directory code check if a client is trying to fetch a
document that matches a digest from our latest consensus document.
See: https://bugs.torproject.org/22702
This patch ensures that the published_out output parameter is set to the
current consensus cache entry's "valid after" field.
See: https://bugs.torproject.org/22702
As of ac2f6b608a in 0.2.1.19-alpha,
Sebastian fixed bug 888 by marking descriptors as "impossible" by
digest if they got rejected during the
router_load_routers_from_string() phase. This fix stopped clients
and relays from downloading the same thing over and over.
But we never made the same change for descriptors rejected during
dirserv_add_{descriptor,extrainfo}. Instead, we tried to notice in
advance that we'd reject them with dirserv_would_reject().
This notice-in-advance check stopped working once we added
key-pinning and didn't make a corresponding key-pinning change to
dirserv_would_reject() [since a routerstatus_t doesn't include an
ed25519 key].
So as a fix, let's make the dirserv_add_*() functions mark digests
as undownloadable when they are rejected.
Fixes bug 22349; I am calling this a fix on 0.2.1.19-alpha, though
you could also argue for it being a fix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
This mistake causes two possible bugs. I believe they are both
harmless IRL.
BUG 1: memory stomping
When we call the memset, we are overwriting two 0 bytes past the end
of packed_cell_t.body. But I think that's harmless in practice,
because the definition of packed_cell_t is:
// ...
typedef struct packed_cell_t {
TOR_SIMPLEQ_ENTRY(packed_cell_t) next;
char body[CELL_MAX_NETWORK_SIZE];
uint32_t inserted_time;
} packed_cell_t;
So we will overwrite either two bytes of inserted_time, or two bytes
of padding, depending on how the platform handles alignment.
If we're overwriting padding, that's safe.
If we are overwriting the inserted_time field, that's also safe: In
every case where we call cell_pack() from connection_or.c, we ignore
the inserted_time field. When we call cell_pack() from relay.c, we
don't set or use inserted_time until right after we have called
cell_pack(). SO I believe we're safe in that case too.
BUG 2: memory exposure
The original reason for this memset was to avoid the possibility of
accidentally leaking uninitialized ram to the network. Now
remember, if wide_circ_ids is false on a connection, we shouldn't
actually be sending more than 512 bytes of packed_cell_t.body, so
these two bytes can only leak to the network if there is another bug
somewhere else in the code that sends more data than is correct.
Fortunately, in relay.c, where we allocate packed_cell_t in
packed_cell_new() , we allocate it with tor_malloc_zero(), which
clears the RAM, right before we call cell_pack. So those
packed_cell_t.body bytes can't leak any information.
That leaves the two calls to cell_pack() in connection_or.c, which
use stack-alocated packed_cell_t instances.
In or_handshake_state_record_cell(), we pass the cell's contents to
crypto_digest_add_bytes(). When we do so, we get the number of
bytes to pass using the same setting of wide_circ_ids as we passed
to cell_pack(). So I believe that's safe.
In connection_or_write_cell_to_buf(), we also use the same setting
of wide_circ_ids in both calls. So I believe that's safe too.
I introduced this bug with 1c0e87f6d8
back in 0.2.4.11-alpha; it is bug 22737 and CID 1401591
This introduces node_supports_v3_hsdir() and node_supports_ed25519_hs_intro()
that checks the routerstatus_t of a node and if not present, checks the
routerinfo_t.
This is groundwork for proposal 224 service implementation in #20657.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
It is possible that at some point in time a client will encounter unknown or
new fields for an introduction point in a descriptor so let them ignore it for
forward compatibility.
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
If `validate_only` is true, then just validate the configuration without warning
about it. This way, we only emit warnings when the listener is actually opened.
(Otherwise, every time we parse the config we will might re-warn and we would
need to keep state; whereas the listeners are only opened once.)
* FIXES#4019.
-authdir_mode_handles_descs(options, ROUTER_PURPOSE_BRIDGE) to authdir_mode_bridge(options).
- authdir_mode_handles_descs(options, ROUTER_PURPOSE_GENERAL) to authdir_mode_v3(options).
This prevents us from calling
allowed_anonymous_connection_compression_method() on the unused
guessed method (if any), and rejecting something that was already
safe to use.
Rationale: When use a guessed compression method, we already gave a
PROTOCOL_WARN when our guess differed from the declared method,
AND we gave a PROTOCOL_WARN when the declared method failed. It is
not a protocol problem that the guessed method failed too; it's just
a recovery attempt that failed.
A cached_dir_t object (for now) is always compressed with
DEFLATE_METHOD, but in handle_get_status_vote() to we were using the
general compression-negotiation code decide what compression to
claim we were using.
This was one of the reasons behind 22502.
Fixes bug 22669; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha
Move the HTTPProxy option to the deprecated list so for now it will only warn
users but feature is still in the code which will be removed in a future
stable version.
Fixes#20575
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
On an hidden service rendezvous circuit, a BEGIN_DIR could be sent
(maliciously) which would trigger a tor_assert() because
connection_edge_process_relay_cell() thought that the circuit is an
or_circuit_t but is an origin circuit in reality.
Fixes#22494
Reported-by: Roger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org>
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
This fixes an assertion failure in relay_send_end_cell_from_edge_() when an
origin circuit and a cpath_layer = NULL were passed.
A service rendezvous circuit could do such a thing when a malformed BEGIN cell
is received but shouldn't in the first place because the service needs to send
an END cell on the circuit for which it can not do without a cpath_layer.
Fixes#22493
Reported-by: Roger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org>
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
Apparently, the unit tests relied on being able to make ed->x509
link certs even when they hadn't set any server flags in the
options. So instead of making "client" mean "never generate an
ed->x509 cert", we'll have it mean "it's okay not to generate an
ed->x509 cert".
(Going with a minimal fix here, since this is supposed to be a
stable version.)
It's okay to call add_ed25519_cert with a NULL argument: so,
document that. Also, add a tor_assert_nonfatal() to catch any case
where we have failed to set own_link_cert when conn_in_server_mode.
Whenever we rotate our TLS context, we change our Ed25519
Signing->Link certificate. But if we've already started a TLS
connection, then we've already sent the old X509 link certificate,
so the new Ed25519 Signing->Link certificate won't match it.
To fix this, we now store a copy of the Signing->Link certificate
when we initialize the handshake state, and send that certificate
as part of our CERTS cell.
Fixes one case of bug22460; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
Previously we could sometimes change our signing key, but not
regenerate the certificates (signing->link and signing->auth) that
were signed with it. Also, we would regularly replace our TLS x.509
link certificate (by rotating our TLS context) but not replace our
signing->link ed25519 certificate. In both cases, the resulting
inconsistency would make other relays reject our link handshakes.
Fixes two cases of bug 22460; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
The encrypted_data_length_is_valid() function wasn't validating correctly the
length of the encrypted data of a v3 descriptor. The side effect of this is
that an HSDir was rejecting the descriptor and ultimately not storing it.
Fixes#22447
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
A fair number of our mock_impl declarations were messed up so that
even our special AM_ETAGSFLAGS couldn't find them.
This should be a whitespace-only patch.
When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to keypinning,
free the router descriptor rather than leaking the memory.
Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
If we add the element itself, we will later free it when we free the
descriptor, and the next time we go to look at MyFamily, things will
go badly.
Fixes the rest of bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
If we free them here, we will still attempt to access the freed memory
later on, and also we will double-free when we are freeing the config.
Fixes part of bug 22368.
