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From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>,
	Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] net/tcp-ao: Fix MAC comparison to be constant-time
Date: Mon,  2 Mar 2026 12:36:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260302203600.13561-1-ebiggers@kernel.org> (raw)

To prevent timing attacks, MACs need to be compared in constant
time.  Use the appropriate helper function for this.

Fixes: 0a3a809089eb ("net/tcp: Verify inbound TCP-AO signed segments")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
---
 net/ipv4/Kconfig  | 1 +
 net/ipv4/tcp_ao.c | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/Kconfig b/net/ipv4/Kconfig
index b71c22475c515..3ab6247be5853 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/Kconfig
+++ b/net/ipv4/Kconfig
@@ -746,10 +746,11 @@ config TCP_SIGPOOL
 	tristate
 
 config TCP_AO
 	bool "TCP: Authentication Option (RFC5925)"
 	select CRYPTO
+	select CRYPTO_LIB_UTILS
 	select TCP_SIGPOOL
 	depends on 64BIT && IPV6 != m # seq-number extension needs WRITE_ONCE(u64)
 	help
 	  TCP-AO specifies the use of stronger Message Authentication Codes (MACs),
 	  protects against replays for long-lived TCP connections, and
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ao.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ao.c
index 4980caddb0fc4..a97cdf3e6af4c 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ao.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ao.c
@@ -8,10 +8,11 @@
  *		Salam Noureddine <noureddine@arista.com>
  */
 #define pr_fmt(fmt) "TCP: " fmt
 
 #include <crypto/hash.h>
+#include <crypto/utils.h>
 #include <linux/inetdevice.h>
 #include <linux/tcp.h>
 
 #include <net/tcp.h>
 #include <net/ipv6.h>
@@ -920,11 +921,11 @@ tcp_ao_verify_hash(const struct sock *sk, const struct sk_buff *skb,
 		return SKB_DROP_REASON_NOT_SPECIFIED;
 
 	/* XXX: make it per-AF callback? */
 	tcp_ao_hash_skb(family, hash_buf, key, sk, skb, traffic_key,
 			(phash - (u8 *)th), sne);
-	if (memcmp(phash, hash_buf, maclen)) {
+	if (crypto_memneq(phash, hash_buf, maclen)) {
 		NET_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPAOBAD);
 		atomic64_inc(&info->counters.pkt_bad);
 		atomic64_inc(&key->pkt_bad);
 		trace_tcp_ao_mismatch(sk, skb, aoh->keyid,
 				      aoh->rnext_keyid, maclen);

base-commit: 9439a661c2e80485406ce2c90b107ca17858382d
-- 
2.53.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-03-02 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-02 20:36 Eric Biggers [this message]
2026-03-02 20:59 ` [PATCH net] net/tcp-ao: Fix MAC comparison to be constant-time Dmitry Safonov
2026-03-02 21:24   ` Eric Biggers
2026-03-04  1:30 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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