linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] nvme-auth: allow mixing of secret and hash lengths

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Message-ID: <ed5dd7d7-9795-40fe-bc4a-5bf4e99f9266@suse.de>
Date:   Sat, 14 Oct 2023 13:41:38 +0200
From:   Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
To:     Mark O'Donovan <shiftee@...teo.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, sagi@...mberg.me, hch@....de,
        axboe@...nel.dk, kbusch@...nel.org,
        Akash Appaiah <Akash.Appaiah@...l.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] nvme-auth: allow mixing of secret and hash lengths

On 10/13/23 22:28, Mark O'Donovan wrote:
> We can now use any of the secret transformation hashes with a
> secret, regardless of the secret size.
> e.g. a 32 byte key with the SHA-512(64 byte) hash.
> 
> The example secret from the spec should now be permitted with
> any of the following:
> DHHC-1:00:ia6zGodOr4SEG0Zzaw398rpY0wqipUWj4jWjUh4HWUz6aQ2n:
> DHHC-1:01:ia6zGodOr4SEG0Zzaw398rpY0wqipUWj4jWjUh4HWUz6aQ2n:
> DHHC-1:02:ia6zGodOr4SEG0Zzaw398rpY0wqipUWj4jWjUh4HWUz6aQ2n:
> DHHC-1:03:ia6zGodOr4SEG0Zzaw398rpY0wqipUWj4jWjUh4HWUz6aQ2n:
> 
> Note: Secrets are still restricted to 32,48 or 64 bits.
> 
> Co-developed-by: Akash Appaiah <Akash.Appaiah@...l.com>
> Signed-off-by: Akash Appaiah <Akash.Appaiah@...l.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mark O'Donovan <shiftee@...teo.net>
> ---
>   drivers/nvme/common/auth.c | 8 --------
>   1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/common/auth.c b/drivers/nvme/common/auth.c
> index d90e4f0c08b7..176855f86f0d 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/common/auth.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/common/auth.c
> @@ -187,14 +187,6 @@ struct nvme_dhchap_key *nvme_auth_extract_key(unsigned char *secret,
>   		goto out_free_secret;
>   	}
>   
> -	if (key_hash > 0 &&
> -	    (key_len - 4) != nvme_auth_hmac_hash_len(key_hash)) {
> -		pr_err("Mismatched key len %d for %s\n", key_len,
> -		       nvme_auth_hmac_name(key_hash));
> -		ret = -EINVAL;
> -		goto out_free_secret;
> -	}
> -
>   	/* The last four bytes is the CRC in little-endian format */
>   	key_len -= 4;
>   	/*

That, however, looks good.

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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