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This fix resolves a major issue introduced in a recent change where logging in using oc on macos to a hcp client with insecure flag was used.

That PR was reverted - #2456 .

On other clusters where there was no error, the
check now panics on strings.HasPrefix(err.Error(), ...) as there was no check to see if err != nil.

This was flagged by coderabbitai in library-go bump pr in oc.

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This fix fixes an issue seen when oc client is used to login to a HCP cluster on macOS. It falls back to kubeconfig CA when a string based x509 error is observed on the macOS platform.

See https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/crypto/x509/root_darwin.go#L74 for reference.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved certificate verification error handling on macOS.
    • Untrusted certificate errors are now reported consistently, while successful verification and unrelated errors remain unaffected.
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    • Added coverage for macOS certificate-error conversion, including successful verification, untrusted certificates, and unrelated errors.

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This fix resolves a major issue introduced in a recent change where logging in using oc on macos to a hcp client with insecure flag was used.

On other clusters where there was no error, the
check now panics on strings.HasPrefix(err.Error(), ...) as there was no check to see if err != nil.

This was flagged by coderabbitai in library-go bump pr in oc.

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The Darwin certificate verification path now uses a dedicated error-normalization helper. The helper preserves successful verification and unrelated errors, and converts string-based X.509 errors. Focused tests cover these cases.

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Certificate error normalization

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Darwin verification and focused tests
pkg/oauth/tokenrequest/request_token.go, pkg/oauth/tokenrequest/request_token_test.go
Darwin verification delegates error handling to darwinCertVerifyErr. The helper preserves nil and unrelated errors, converts string-based x509: errors to x509.UnknownAuthorityError, and preserves the certificate. Table-driven tests cover these cases and remove the unused libcrypto import.

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This change prevents a macOS login panic during insecure HCP access while preserving normal certificate-error handling. No current merge-blocking risk remains.

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In `@pkg/oauth/tokenrequest/request_token_test.go`:
- Line 810: Extract the Darwin certificate-verification error conversion from
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@ehearne-redhat The latest change looks correct.

darwinCertVerifyErr checks err == nil before it calls err.Error(). This removes the panic path during successful certificate verification on macOS.

The refactor also improves the test design. TestDarwinCertVerifyErr now tests the relevant behavior directly:

  • A nil error stays nil.
  • An x509: error becomes x509.UnknownAuthorityError.
  • The certificate is preserved in x509.UnknownAuthorityError.
  • Other errors pass through unchanged.

The Darwin-only behavior remains in verifyServerCertChain. Non-Darwin behavior remains unchanged. I do not see a new correctness issue in this update.

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/lgtm

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Created #2456 to buy us time.

Please revert the revert from 2456 and create a proof PR for OC. Let's also manually test the change to make sure we're not missing anything.

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@ehearne-redhat ehearne-redhat changed the title NO-JIRA: fix error panic when logging in without an error on macos OCPBUGS-109578: fix oc darwin client hcp login when insecure tls flag is used Sep 4, 2026
@openshift-ci-robot openshift-ci-robot added the jira/severity-moderate Referenced Jira bug's severity is moderate for the branch this PR is targeting. label Sep 4, 2026
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@ehearne-redhat: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-109578, which is valid.

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Details

In response to this:

This fix resolves a major issue introduced in a recent change where logging in using oc on macos to a hcp client with insecure flag was used.

On other clusters where there was no error, the
check now panics on strings.HasPrefix(err.Error(), ...) as there was no check to see if err != nil.

This was flagged by coderabbitai in library-go bump pr in oc.

openshift/oc#2391 (comment)

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

  • Improved certificate verification error handling on macOS.

  • Untrusted certificate errors are now reported consistently, while successful verification and unrelated errors remain unaffected.

  • Tests

  • Added coverage for macOS certificate-error conversion, including successful verification, untrusted certificates, and unrelated errors.

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@ehearne-redhat can you please give me some details about why did we revert the previous one?

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if goos == "darwin" && err != nil && strings.HasPrefix(err.Error(), "x509:") {
return unknownX509VerificationError{err}
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While I can understand the simplification of just wrapping every error in this error type, is this actually what we want?

IF the x509 verification process returns a known concretely typed error, we probably want to just return that typed error instead of wrapping it in a different type.

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In my opinion, instead of calling this function for every error type, we should convert to our custom error only if goos is darwin and error has prefix of x509.

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OK - makes sense. I have been thinking about where exactly to move it.

I'm thinking where the default switch case is probably best. I'll push it up and hopefully this suits. :)

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@ehearne-redhat can you please give me some details about why did we revert the previous one?

Hey @ardaguclu - the reason why I asked for the revert was because there was no nil error check in the implementation which would cause a panic when we call err.Error() .

@bertinatto explained it would be a good idea to revert so it would give us more time on coming up with a better solution so components e.g. oc bumping library-go would not begin to get failures.

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Hey @ardaguclu @everettraven - apologies for the delay in pushing. Feel free to take a look when you get a chance and let me know your thoughts. :)

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/lgtm

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@ehearne-redhat it would be better to open a fake bump in oc to see everything works properly.

@openshift-ci openshift-ci Bot removed the lgtm Indicates that a PR is ready to be merged. label Sep 9, 2026
This fix resolves a major issue introduced in a recent change
where logging in using oc on macos to a hcp client with insecure
flag was used.

On other clusters where there was no error, the
check now panics on strings.HasPrefix(err.Error(), ...) as there
was no check to see if err != nil.

This was flagged by coderabbitai in library-go bump pr in oc.

openshift/oc#2391 (comment)

This change move darwin cert verify logic out of verifyServerCertChain,
and additionally, adds a unit test that actually tests the error logic
for darwin based systems.

This commit also simplifies the error checking process by wrapping the
error in a custom error for better readability. it also simplifies
the error checking and unit tests for this problem.

It does this by moving the error conversion and error check for the
unknown x509 error type to the default switch case. this should
mitigate the concern about error type conversions when all other
typed error checks have not been exhausted.

by moving it further down, we can ensure the error stays intact
only until we have exhausted already existing typed error checks.
at this stage we can assume the error in question is likely the
string based x5099 unknown error which we can convert to the
desired type.
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@ehearne-redhat it would be better to open a fake bump in oc to see everything works properly.

Yes - I do already have one set up in openshift/oc#2391 so I will go and update it shortly.

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