pkcs11-tool test suite fails on latest SoftHSM

[jclc]

Problem Description

The test suite assumes SoftHSM tokens can be created and accessed on slot 0, however this behaviour is no longer supported by SoftHSM. When creating a token in SoftHSM, it will automatically assign it to a random slot. According to the developers, this is by design.

This makes it impossible to test new features added or to be added to the latest SoftHSM versions.

This should be a relatively simple change, but if OpenSC depends on a specific version in its CI pipelines that would need to be updated as well.

Proposed Resolution

Check assigned slot after softhsm_initialize and append --slot $SLOT to $PKCS11_TOOL

Steps to reproduce

make check

Logs

[Jakuje]

Do you have some example of the failed test runs? I think this behavior is in softhsm for quite some time already, but pkcs11 tool skips uninitialized slots in the tests (but I might be wrong or there might be some case not covered).