From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
To: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>, <davem@davemloft.net>,
<netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <ofir.drang@arm.com>,
<gilad.benyossef@arm.com>,
Alexander Alemayhu <alexander@alemayhu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] IPsec: do not ignore crypto err in ah input
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 08:35:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170116073535.GL3541@gauss.secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1484460583-2303-1-git-send-email-gilad@benyossef.com>
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 08:09:43AM +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> ah input processing uses the asynchronous hash crypto API which supplies
> an error code as part of the operation completion but the error code was
> being ignored.
>
> Treat a crypto API error indication as a verification failure.
>
> While a crypto API reported error would almost certainly result in a
> memcmp of the digest failing anyway and thus the security risk seems
> minor, performing a memory compare on what might be uninitialized memory
> is wrong.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
> CC: Alexander Alemayhu <alexander@alemayhu.com>
> ---
>
> The change was boot tested on Arm64 but I did not exercise
> the specific error code path in question.
>
> Changes from v1:
> - Fixed typo in patch description pointed out by Alexander
>
> net/ipv4/ah4.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/ah4.c b/net/ipv4/ah4.c
> index f2a7102..22377c8 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/ah4.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/ah4.c
> @@ -270,6 +270,9 @@ static void ah_input_done(struct crypto_async_request *base, int err)
> int ihl = ip_hdrlen(skb);
> int ah_hlen = (ah->hdrlen + 2) << 2;
>
> + if (err)
> + goto out;
> +
IPv6 has the same problem, can we get it fixed there too?
Thanks!
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2017-01-15 6:09 [PATCH v2 net-next] IPsec: do not ignore crypto err in ah input Gilad Ben-Yossef
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