netdev - Re: [PATCH net] sctp: init active key for the new asoc in dupcook_a and dupcook

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Date:   Wed, 02 May 2018 11:16:37 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     lucien.xin@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
        marcelo.leitner@...il.com, nhorman@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] sctp: init active key for the new asoc in
 dupcook_a and dupcook_b

From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
Date: Wed,  2 May 2018 13:37:44 +0800

> When processing a duplicate cookie-echo chunk, for case 'A' and 'B',
> after sctp_process_init for the new asoc, if auth is enabled for the
> cookie-ack chunk, the active key should also be initialized.
> 
> Otherwise, the cookie-ack chunk made later can not be set with auth
> shkey properly, and a crash can even be caused by this, as after
> Commit 1b1e0bc99474 ("sctp: add refcnt support for sh_key"), sctp
> needs to hold the shkey when making control chunks.
> 
> Fixes: 1b1e0bc99474 ("sctp: add refcnt support for sh_key")
> Reported-by: Jianwen Ji <jiji@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>

Applied.