* [PATCH 5.10] smb: client: Compare MACs in constant time
@ 2026-03-10 19:51 Eric Biggers
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From: Eric Biggers @ 2026-03-10 19:51 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/cifs/cifsencrypt.c | 3 ++-
fs/cifs/smb2transport.c | 4 +++-
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c b/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c
index 9daa256f69d41..96cbfebbb6483 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c
@@ -34,10 +34,11 @@
#include <linux/random.h>
#include <linux/highmem.h>
#include <linux/fips.h>
#include <crypto/arc4.h>
#include <crypto/aead.h>
+#include <crypto/algapi.h>
int __cifs_calc_signature(struct smb_rqst *rqst,
struct TCP_Server_Info *server, char *signature,
struct shash_desc *shash)
{
@@ -253,11 +254,11 @@ 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/cifs/smb2transport.c b/fs/cifs/smb2transport.c
index adb324234b444..c02e57d8e228b 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/smb2transport.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/smb2transport.c
@@ -29,10 +29,11 @@
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <linux/mempool.h>
#include <linux/highmem.h>
+#include <crypto/algapi.h>
#include <crypto/aead.h>
#include "smb2pdu.h"
#include "cifsglob.h"
#include "cifsproto.h"
#include "smb2proto.h"
@@ -685,11 +686,12 @@ 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: aed5c3b77cd53ba74f66767b03bfb9177662af4b
--
2.53.0
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