From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@oss.qualcomm.com>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: Fix cryptographic MAC comparison to be constant-time
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 22:44:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260709024443.58132-1-ebiggers@kernel.org> (raw)
To prevent timing attacks, the comparison of cryptographic message
authentication codes (MACs) needs to have data-independent timing.
Replace the memcmp() with the correct function, crypto_memneq().
Fixes: 39404feee691 ("mac80211: FILS AEAD protection for station mode association frames")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
---
net/mac80211/fils_aead.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/fils_aead.c b/net/mac80211/fils_aead.c
index d2f4a17eab99..00b91e6ed994 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/fils_aead.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/fils_aead.c
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ static int aes_siv_decrypt(const u8 *key, size_t key_len,
res = aes_s2v(key /* K1 */, key_len, num_elem, addr, len, check);
if (res)
return res;
- if (memcmp(check, frame_iv, AES_BLOCK_SIZE) != 0)
+ if (crypto_memneq(check, frame_iv, AES_BLOCK_SIZE))
return -EINVAL;
return 0;
}
base-commit: 8cdeaa50eae8dad34885515f62559ee83e7e8dda
--
2.55.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-07-09 2:45 UTC|newest]
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2026-07-09 2:44 Eric Biggers [this message]
2026-07-09 6:45 ` [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: Fix cryptographic MAC comparison to be constant-time Johannes Berg
2026-07-09 15:20 ` Eric Biggers
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