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* [PATCH 6.6] smb: client: Compare MACs in constant time
@ 2026-03-10 19:50 Eric Biggers
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From: Eric Biggers @ 2026-03-10 19:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: stable
  Cc: linux-crypto, linux-cifs, Eric Biggers, Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat),
	Steve French

commit 26bc83b88bbbf054f0980a4a42047a8d1e210e4c upstream.

To prevent timing attacks, MAC comparisons need to be constant-time.
Replace the memcmp() with the correct function, crypto_memneq().

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) <pc@manguebit.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
---
 fs/smb/client/cifsencrypt.c   | 3 ++-
 fs/smb/client/smb2transport.c | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/smb/client/cifsencrypt.c b/fs/smb/client/cifsencrypt.c
index da3d003cb43db..3d6b663212335 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/cifsencrypt.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/cifsencrypt.c
@@ -21,10 +21,11 @@
 #include <linux/random.h>
 #include <linux/highmem.h>
 #include <linux/fips.h>
 #include "../common/arc4.h"
 #include <crypto/aead.h>
+#include <crypto/utils.h>
 
 /*
  * Hash data from a BVEC-type iterator.
  */
 static int cifs_shash_bvec(const struct iov_iter *iter, ssize_t maxsize,
@@ -369,11 +370,11 @@ int cifs_verify_signature(struct smb_rqst *rqst,
 		return rc;
 
 /*	cifs_dump_mem("what we think it should be: ",
 		      what_we_think_sig_should_be, 16); */
 
-	if (memcmp(server_response_sig, what_we_think_sig_should_be, 8))
+	if (crypto_memneq(server_response_sig, what_we_think_sig_should_be, 8))
 		return -EACCES;
 	else
 		return 0;
 
 }
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/smb2transport.c b/fs/smb/client/smb2transport.c
index 99081e9d6283a..daf8ba2cd8a10 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/smb2transport.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/smb2transport.c
@@ -17,10 +17,11 @@
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/processor.h>
 #include <linux/mempool.h>
 #include <linux/highmem.h>
 #include <crypto/aead.h>
+#include <crypto/utils.h>
 #include "cifsglob.h"
 #include "cifsproto.h"
 #include "smb2proto.h"
 #include "cifs_debug.h"
 #include "smb2status.h"
@@ -730,11 +731,12 @@ smb2_verify_signature(struct smb_rqst *rqst, struct TCP_Server_Info *server)
 	rc = server->ops->calc_signature(rqst, server, true);
 
 	if (rc)
 		return rc;
 
-	if (memcmp(server_response_sig, shdr->Signature, SMB2_SIGNATURE_SIZE)) {
+	if (crypto_memneq(server_response_sig, shdr->Signature,
+			  SMB2_SIGNATURE_SIZE)) {
 		cifs_dbg(VFS, "sign fail cmd 0x%x message id 0x%llx\n",
 			shdr->Command, shdr->MessageId);
 		return -EACCES;
 	} else
 		return 0;

base-commit: 4fc00fe35d46b4fc8dac2eb543a0e3d44bb15f47
-- 
2.53.0


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