2.6.25-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Herbert Xu [ Upstream commit: c5d18e984a313adf5a1a4ae69e0b1d93cf410229 ] As it stands it's impossible to use any authentication algorithms with an ID above 31 portably. It just happens to work on x86 but fails miserably on ppc64. The reason is that we're using a bit mask to check the algorithm ID but the mask is only 32 bits wide. After looking at how this is used in the field, I have concluded that in the long term we should phase out state matching by IDs because this is made superfluous by the reqid feature. For current applications, the best solution IMHO is to allow all algorithms when the bit masks are all ~0. The following patch does exactly that. This bug was identified by IBM when testing on the ppc64 platform using the NULL authentication algorithm which has an ID of 251. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/net/xfrm.h | 3 +++ net/key/af_key.c | 2 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 2 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 2 ++ 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/include/net/xfrm.h +++ b/include/net/xfrm.h @@ -435,6 +435,9 @@ struct xfrm_tmpl /* May skip this transfomration if no SA is found */ __u8 optional; +/* Skip aalgos/ealgos/calgos checks. */ + __u8 allalgs; + /* Bit mask of algos allowed for acquisition */ __u32 aalgos; __u32 ealgos; --- a/net/key/af_key.c +++ b/net/key/af_key.c @@ -1856,7 +1856,7 @@ parse_ipsecrequest(struct xfrm_policy *x t->encap_family = xp->family; /* No way to set this via kame pfkey */ - t->aalgos = t->ealgos = t->calgos = ~0; + t->allalgs = 1; xp->xfrm_nr++; return 0; } --- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c +++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c @@ -1772,7 +1772,7 @@ xfrm_state_ok(struct xfrm_tmpl *tmpl, st (x->id.spi == tmpl->id.spi || !tmpl->id.spi) && (x->props.reqid == tmpl->reqid || !tmpl->reqid) && x->props.mode == tmpl->mode && - ((tmpl->aalgos & (1<props.aalgo)) || + (tmpl->allalgs || (tmpl->aalgos & (1<props.aalgo)) || !(xfrm_id_proto_match(tmpl->id.proto, IPSEC_PROTO_ANY))) && !(x->props.mode != XFRM_MODE_TRANSPORT && xfrm_state_addr_cmp(tmpl, x, family)); --- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c +++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c @@ -975,6 +975,8 @@ static void copy_templates(struct xfrm_p t->aalgos = ut->aalgos; t->ealgos = ut->ealgos; t->calgos = ut->calgos; + /* If all masks are ~0, then we allow all algorithms. */ + t->allalgs = !~(t->aalgos & t->ealgos & t->calgos); t->encap_family = ut->family; } } -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/