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Message-ID: <53C998DE.2030805@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 17:59:58 -0400
From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
To: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
CC: davem@...emloft.net, jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: sctp: inherit auth_capable on INIT collisions
On 07/18/2014 03:17 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 07/18/2014 04:38 PM, Vlad Yasevich wrote:
> ...
>> Why is the original value of asoc->peer.auth_capable = 0?
>> In case of collision, asoc is the old association that
>> existed on the system. That association was created as part of
>> sending the INIT. If it is processing a duplicate COOKIE-ECHO
>> as you say, then it has already processed the INIT-ACK and
>> should have determined that the peer is auth capable.
>>
>> Thus the capability of the new and the old associations should
>> be same if we are in fact processing case B (collision).
>>
>> If not, then something else if wrong and my guess is that all
>> other capabilities would be wrong too.
>
> I agree that they might likely also be flawed.
>
> Ok, let me dig further.
So I think I know why case D ends up not authenticating the COOKIE-ACK.
Most likely the reason is the following statement:
repl = sctp_make_cookie_ack(new_asoc, chunk);
Note that we use new_asoc, instead of current asoc.
Not sure why case B is dumping core yet.
-vlad
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