Thomas Desrosiers 7add2af9ec prober: cache CRLs across TLS probes (#21286)
The TLS probe fetched and parsed the leaf certificate's CRL on every
run. That is fine when the CRL is small, but some CAs publish CRLs of
several megabytes: the one for the AWS ACM R2M04 intermediate is about
2.5MB, which at the default 15s interval is a continuous 170kB/s per
probed node.

Cache parsed CRLs by distribution point URL and reuse each for up to
an hour, or until its NextUpdate if that comes first. An hour is the
HTTP max-age Let's Encrypt serves on its root CRL. A CRL is cached
only after its signature verifies, every use still re-verifies it
against the probing leaf's issuer (the cache is keyed by URL alone),
and a CRL without a NextUpdate is never cached since it declares no
validity window.

Concurrent probes fetch through singleflight.DoChanContext to avoid
re-fetching a single CRL, with each waiter keeping its own deadline. A
caller that missed the cache re-checks it inside the singleflight
closure, since singleflight dedupes only calls that overlap.

Leaf certificates whose issuer is missing from the presented chain now
fail before any fetch. Previously the probe downloaded the CRL and then
panicked in CheckSignatureFrom, which the prober recovered and recorded
as a probe failure.

Also update the TLS probe's doc comments, which said OCSP where the
code checks a CRL.

Fixes #21310

Signed-off-by: Thomas Desrosiers <git@hive.pw>
2026-09-16 00:08:19 -04:00
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