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* [PATCH 5.15.y] net/tcp-md5: Fix MAC comparison to be constant-time
@ 2026-05-13  1:24 Li hongliang
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From: Li hongliang @ 2026-05-13  1:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gregkh, stable, ebiggers
  Cc: patches, linux-kernel, edumazet, davem, yoshfuji, dsahern, kuba,
	shawn.lu, netdev

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>

commit 46d0d6f50dab706637f4c18a470aac20a21900d3 upstream.

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

Fixes: cfb6eeb4c860 ("[TCP]: MD5 Signature Option (RFC2385) support.")
Fixes: 658ddaaf6694 ("tcp: md5: RST: getting md5 key from listener")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260302203409.13388-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Li hongliang <1468888505@139.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 5 +++--
 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 5 +++--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
index 43415de60d7f..7e4a9090abd7 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@
 #include <linux/inetdevice.h>
 #include <linux/btf_ids.h>
 
+#include <crypto/algapi.h>
 #include <crypto/hash.h>
 #include <linux/scatterlist.h>
 
@@ -763,7 +764,7 @@ static void tcp_v4_send_reset(const struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 
 
 		genhash = tcp_v4_md5_hash_skb(newhash, key, NULL, skb);
-		if (genhash || memcmp(hash_location, newhash, 16) != 0)
+		if (genhash || crypto_memneq(hash_location, newhash, 16))
 			goto out;
 
 	}
@@ -1467,7 +1468,7 @@ static bool tcp_v4_inbound_md5_hash(const struct sock *sk,
 				      hash_expected,
 				      NULL, skb);
 
-	if (genhash || memcmp(hash_location, newhash, 16) != 0) {
+	if (genhash || crypto_memneq(hash_location, newhash, 16)) {
 		NET_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPMD5FAILURE);
 		net_info_ratelimited("MD5 Hash failed for (%pI4, %d)->(%pI4, %d)%s L3 index %d\n",
 				     &iph->saddr, ntohs(th->source),
diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
index e1ca8b73ec08..e972bbb75418 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
 #include <linux/seq_file.h>
 
+#include <crypto/algapi.h>
 #include <crypto/hash.h>
 #include <linux/scatterlist.h>
 
@@ -810,7 +811,7 @@ static bool tcp_v6_inbound_md5_hash(const struct sock *sk,
 				      hash_expected,
 				      NULL, skb);
 
-	if (genhash || memcmp(hash_location, newhash, 16) != 0) {
+	if (genhash || crypto_memneq(hash_location, newhash, 16)) {
 		NET_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPMD5FAILURE);
 		net_info_ratelimited("MD5 Hash %s for [%pI6c]:%u->[%pI6c]:%u L3 index %d\n",
 				     genhash ? "failed" : "mismatch",
@@ -1088,7 +1089,7 @@ static void tcp_v6_send_reset(const struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 			goto out;
 
 		genhash = tcp_v6_md5_hash_skb(newhash, key, NULL, skb);
-		if (genhash || memcmp(hash_location, newhash, 16) != 0)
+		if (genhash || crypto_memneq(hash_location, newhash, 16))
 			goto out;
 	}
 #endif
-- 
2.34.1



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