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authorEric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>2026-03-02 12:36:00 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2026-03-25 11:08:35 +0100
commit8be6ed64966da48b6c4726918f106c18742a5125 (patch)
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parentc2bbdee7650ca16109670d2671a7fe8a87d896db (diff)
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net/tcp-ao: Fix MAC comparison to be constant-time
commit 67edfec516d30d3e62925c397be4a1e5185802fc upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260302203600.13561-1-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/Kconfig1
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp_ao.c3
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/Kconfig b/net/ipv4/Kconfig
index 6d2c97f8e9ef..4cfd87b28c04 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/Kconfig
+++ b/net/ipv4/Kconfig
@@ -748,6 +748,7 @@ config TCP_SIGPOOL
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
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ao.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ao.c
index 3338b6cc85c4..72957523c2ec 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ao.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ao.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
#define pr_fmt(fmt) "TCP: " fmt
#include <crypto/hash.h>
+#include <crypto/utils.h>
#include <linux/inetdevice.h>
#include <linux/tcp.h>
@@ -923,7 +924,7 @@ tcp_ao_verify_hash(const struct sock *sk, const struct sk_buff *skb,
/* 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);