bugfix: external-oidc: omit client-credential TLS generated config when empty

[everettraven]

Description

During some testing using an identity provider that already uses certificates signed by a well known certificate authority (i.e included in the system default trust store), omitting the TLS configuration option for the external claims source authentication type ClientCredential resulted in generation of an invalid configuration that set tls: {}.

Example generated config:

apiVersion: v1
data:
  auth-config.json: '{"kind":"AuthenticationConfiguration","apiVersion":"authentication.openshift.io/v1alpha1","jwt":[{"issuer":{"url":"https://login.microsoftonline.com/<redacted>/v2.0","audiences":["<redacted>"],"audienceMatchPolicy":"MatchAny"},"claimMappings":{"username":{"claim":"preferred_username","prefix":""},"groups":{"expression":"claims.?groups.orValue('''').split('','')"},"uid":{"claim":"sub"}},"externalClaimsSources":[{"authentication":{"type":"ClientCredential","clientCredential":{"clientID":"<redacted>","clientSecret":"<redacted>","tokenEndpoint":"https://login.microsoftonline.com/<redacted>/oauth2/v2.0/token","scopes":[".default"],"tls":{}}},"url":{"hostname":"graph.microsoft.com","pathExpression":"[''v1.0'',
    ''users''] + [claims.oid] + [''memberOf'', ''microsoft.graph.group'']"},"mappings":[{"name":"groups","expression":"response.body.value.map(x,
    x.displayName).join('','')"}]}]}]}'
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: "2026-08-14T16:31:07Z"
  name: auth-config
  namespace: openshift-oauth-apiserver
  resourceVersion: "97832"
  uid: de9f81b3-00a8-43f7-a787-76db7a84f2c9

Example error from oauth-apiserver pod:

E0814 17:52:49.284670       1 configurator.go:94] reloading configuration: validating configuration: validating authentication configuration: jwt[0].externalClaimsSources[0].authentication.clientCredential.tls: Invalid value: {"CertificateAuthority":null}: at least one field must be set when tls is specified

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This PR fixes this issue by checking if the provided TLS configuration is the zero-value and omitting the TLS configuration if it is instead of always setting the TLS configuration. Additionally, a new unit test was added to test this case acts as expected.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved TLS configuration handling for client-credential authentication.
  • TLS settings are now created only when explicitly provided, avoiding unnecessary configuration.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for client-credential authentication without TLS settings.
  • Verified token endpoint, scopes, external source URL, secrets, and claim mappings.

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Walkthrough

Client-credential external claims configuration now conditionally generates TLS settings from the referenced CA ConfigMap. A table-driven test covers authentication without client-credential TLS settings.

Changes

External claims TLS configuration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Conditional TLS mapping and validation pkg/controllers/externaloidc/generation/oauthapiserver/generate.go, pkg/controllers/externaloidc/generation/oauthapiserver/generate_test.go	The generator uses generateExternalClaimsSourceTLS when client-credential TLS settings are present. The test validates secret resolution, endpoint, scopes, source URL, TLS, and claim mappings when those settings are nil.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 8fc4d

This PR omits invalid empty TLS settings while preserving configured TLS behavior. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond routine test review.

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Test Structure And Quality	✅ Passed	The added table case tests one related generation scenario, uses only in-memory indexers, has no cluster waits or resources, and relies on existing assertions with diagnostic messages.
Microshift Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	The PR adds a standard Go table-driven unit test, not a Ginkgo e2e test; no Describe, Context, When, or It constructs were added.
Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	The PR adds a table entry to an existing standard Go Test function; it adds no Ginkgo e2e test and makes no multi-node or HA assumption.
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility	✅ Passed	The commit changes only external OIDC TLS generation and its unit test; the diff introduces no replicas, affinity, topology spread, node selectors, tolerations, or disruption budgets.
Ote Binary Stdout Contract	✅ Passed	The diff changes only OIDC generation and a unit test; it adds no stdout writes or process-level setup, and OTE main already redirects klog to stderr.
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	The added test is a standard Go table-driven Test, not a Ginkgo e2e test; its URL values are data only, and validation/network access is disabled by setting validationFn to nil.
No-Weak-Crypto	✅ Passed	The diff only omits zero-value TLS and adds a nil-TLS test; it introduces no MD5, SHA1, DES, RC4, Blowfish, ECB, custom crypto, or secret comparisons.
Container-Privileges	✅ Passed	The PR changes only Go generator and test files. The diff adds no container or Kubernetes manifest settings for privileged, host namespaces, SYS_ADMIN, or allowPrivilegeEscalation.
No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs	✅ Passed	The diff adds no logging calls or logger imports. It only changes TLS construction; the existing client secret remains a config field and is not logged.

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Inline comments:
In `@pkg/controllers/externaloidc/generation/oauthapiserver/generate_test.go`:
- Around line 1612-1634: Handle and assert the errors returned by both
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