linux-kernel - Re: [RFCv2 1/9] tcp: authopt: Initial support and key management

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Date:   Wed, 11 Aug 2021 21:26:09 +0100
From:   Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@...il.com>
To:     Leonard Crestez <cdleonard@...il.com>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.co.jp>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
        Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@...sta.com>,
        Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@...ux.intel.com>,
        Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@...le.com>,
        Ivan Delalande <colona@...sta.com>,
        Priyaranjan Jha <priyarjha@...gle.com>,
        Menglong Dong <dong.menglong@....com.cn>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>
Subject: Re: [RFCv2 1/9] tcp: authopt: Initial support and key management

On 8/11/21 8:11 PM, Leonard Crestez wrote:
> On 11.08.2021 16:42, David Ahern wrote:
[..]
>>
>> any proposed simplification needs to be well explained and how it
>> relates to the RFC spec.
> 
> The local_id only exists between userspace and kernel so it's not really
> covered by the RFC.
> 
> There are objections to this and it seems to be unhelpful for userspace
> zo I will replace it with match by binding.
> 
> BTW: another somewhat dubious simplification is that I offloaded the RFC
> requirement to never add overlapping keys to userspace. So if userspace
> adds keys with same recvid that match the same TCP 4-tuple then
> connections will just start failing.
> 
> It's arguably fine to allow userspace misconfiguration to cause failures.

I think it's fine. But worth documenting. Also, keep in mind that
someone in userspace with his funny ideas might start relying on such
behavior in future.

Thanks,
        Dmitry