netdev - Re: [PATCH] SCTP: Fix possible memory leak while process INIT chunk with AUTH paramters

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Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:16:22 +0800
From:	Wei Yongjun <yjwei@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>
CC:	lksctp-developers@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCTP: Fix possible memory leak while process INIT chunk
 with AUTH paramters

Hi Vlad:

Vlad Yasevich wrote:
> Hi Wei
>
> Wei Yongjun wrote:
>> While endpoint received INIT/INIT-ACK chunk with AUTH parameters, 
>> such as RANDOM, HMAC_ALGO, CHUNKS parameter, if those parameters 
>> appear more then once, memory for store those parameters will be 
>> malloc more then once and not free.
>>
>
> All these parameters must be included only once in the packet.

RFC 4890 has the following text:

   The RANDOM parameter MUST be included once in the INIT or INIT-ACK
   chunk, if the sender wants to send or receive authenticated chunks,
   to provide a 32-byte Random Number.  For 32-byte Random Numbers, the
   Padding is empty.


It said *MUST be included once*, not *only once*, is this right?

>
> If these things are included more then once, we should either ABORT or
> completely ignore the packet.  I haven't decided which one makes more
> sense yet.
>
> If someone when to the trouble of violating the protocol, we should not
> establish the association with them.

I think do ABORT with protocol violation is better, do the same thing as 
the other protocol violation case do.

Wei Yongjun

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