From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: xfrm: Always zero high-order sequence number bits
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 12:16:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150521101650.GQ8928@secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150520163810.GA13992@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 12:38:12AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> As we're now always including the high bits of the sequence number
> in the IV generation process we need to ensure that they don't
> contain crap.
>
> This patch ensures that the high sequence bits are always zeroed
> so that we don't leak random data into the IV.
>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Applied, thanks Herbert!
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-21 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-13 7:26 esp4: Use high-order sequence number bits for IV generation Herbert Xu
2015-05-13 10:18 ` Steffen Klassert
2015-05-20 16:38 ` xfrm: Always zero high-order sequence number bits Herbert Xu
2015-05-21 10:16 ` Steffen Klassert [this message]
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