From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Blair Steven <Blair.Steven@alliedtelesis.co.nz>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: esp: Fix ESN generation under UDP encapsulation
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 12:59:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160620105934.GL7698@gauss.secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160618050336.GA12205@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 01:03:36PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 12:24:29PM +0200, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 12:44:54AM +0000, Blair Steven wrote:
> > > The restoration is happening - but being actioned on the wrong location.
> > >
> > > The destination IP address is being saved and restored, and the SPI
> > > being written directly after the destination IP address. From my
> > > understanding though, the ESN shuffling should have saved and restored
> > > the UDP source / dest ports + SPI.
> >
> > Yes, looks like we copy with a wrong offset if udp encapsulation
> > is used, skb_transport_header() does not point to the esp header
> > in this case. Ccing Herbert, he changed this part when switching
> > to the new AEAD interface with
> > commit 7021b2e1cddd ("esp4: Switch to new AEAD interface").
>
> Thanks for catching this!
>
> I think rather than changing the transport header (which isn't
> quite right because UDP still is the transport protocol), we can
> just save the offset locally. Something like this:
>
> ---8<---
> Blair Steven noticed that ESN in conjunction with UDP encapsulation
> is broken because we set the temporary ESP header to the wrong spot.
>
> This patch fixes this by first of all using the right spot, i.e.,
> 4 bytes off the real ESP header, and then saving this information
> so that after encryption we can restore it properly.
>
> Fixes: 7021b2e1cddd ("esp4: Switch to new AEAD interface")
> Reported-by: Blair Steven <Blair.Steven@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Looks good.
Blair could you please test this?
Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-20 10:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-12 23:48 [PATCH] IPsec NAT-T issue Blair Steven
2016-06-12 23:48 ` [PATCH] esp: correct offset for ESN when using NAT-T Blair Steven
2016-06-14 21:12 ` David Miller
2016-06-13 10:20 ` [PATCH] IPsec NAT-T issue Steffen Klassert
2016-06-15 0:44 ` Blair Steven
2016-06-17 10:24 ` Steffen Klassert
2016-06-18 5:03 ` esp: Fix ESN generation under UDP encapsulation Herbert Xu
2016-06-20 10:59 ` Steffen Klassert [this message]
2016-06-23 4:25 ` Blair Steven
2016-06-23 10:40 ` Steffen Klassert
2016-06-23 15:52 ` David Miller
2016-06-24 1:52 ` Herbert Xu
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