netdev - [PATCH ipsec-next v3 1/2] IPsec: do not ignore crypto err in ah4 input

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Date:   Mon, 16 Jan 2017 13:17:55 +0200
From:   Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>
To:     steffen.klassert@...unet.com, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
        davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     ofir.drang@....com, gilad.benyossef@....com
Subject: [PATCH ipsec-next v3 1/2] IPsec: do not ignore crypto err in ah4 input

ah4 input processing uses the asynchronous hash crypto API which
supplies an error code as part of the operation completion but
the error code was being ignored.

Treat a crypto API error indication as a verification failure.

While a crypto API reported error would almost certainly result
in a memcpy of the digest failing anyway and thus the security
risk seems minor, performing a memory compare on what might be
uninitialized memory is wrong.

Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>
---
 net/ipv4/ah4.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ah4.c b/net/ipv4/ah4.c
index f2a7102..22377c8 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ah4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ah4.c
@@ -270,6 +270,9 @@ static void ah_input_done(struct crypto_async_request *base, int err)
 	int ihl = ip_hdrlen(skb);
 	int ah_hlen = (ah->hdrlen + 2) << 2;

+	if (err)
+		goto out;
+
 	work_iph = AH_SKB_CB(skb)->tmp;
 	auth_data = ah_tmp_auth(work_iph, ihl);
 	icv = ah_tmp_icv(ahp->ahash, auth_data, ahp->icv_trunc_len);
-- 
2.1.4