netdev - Re: IPSec ESN: Packets decryption fail with ESN enabled connection

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Message-ID: <692a865e-1903-bff8-a8f4-aface07a96ac@chelsio.com>
Date:   Thu, 3 Jan 2019 16:16:56 +0530
From:   Harsh Jain <harsh@...lsio.com>
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:     steffen.klassert@...unet.com, davem@...emloft.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        atul.gupta@...lsio.com, harshjain.prof@...il.com
Subject: Re: IPSec ESN: Packets decryption fail with ESN enabled connection


On 02-01-2019 18:21, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 03:16:29PM +0530, Harsh Jain wrote:
>> +linux-crypto
>>
>> On 26-12-2018 14:54, Harsh Jain wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Kernel version on both machines: 4.19.7.
>>>
>>> Packet drops with EBADMSG is observed on receive end of connection. It seems that sometimes crypto driver receives packet with wrong "seq_hi" value in AAD. See below the dump of assoc data for 1 such instance.
>>>
>>> [  380.823454] assoclen 8th byte 1 clen 1464 op 1  ==> High byte of ESN
>>> [  380.828398] authsize 12 cryptlen 1464
>>> [  380.832637] dt00000000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 ==> Decrypted data seems correct,last byte is proto(06 TCP)
>>> [  380.840215] dt00000010: bf ee 4f 80 a4 7f 2a 50 6a 5a 0b 10
>>> [  380.846636] ass00000000: 0a bc d3 31 <00 00 00 01> 00 1c e5 ec 0e af 04 69 ==> ESN-Hi = 1
>>> [  380.854316] ass00000010: a4 fc 08 ad
>>>
>>> Note: If I decrypt the same packet with ESN - Hi = 0. It Decrypt successfully means peer machine has used ESN-HI = 0 while encrypting.
>>>
>>> To debug further we added trace in "xfrm_replay_seqhi". Following was the output:
>>>
>>>  <idle>-0     [003] ..s.   380.967766: xfrm_replay_seqhi: seq_hi 0x 1 seq 0x 1ce5ec bottom 0x 1ce5ee replay seq 0x 1ce62d replay window 0x 40
>>>
>>> 1) Is this an expected variable with ESN enables connection?.
>>>
>>> 2) If packets are supposed to be dropped can't we avoid decryption overhead.
>>>
>>> Following logs are attached
>>>
>>> 1) dmesg log
>>>
>>> 2) debug patch used to reproduce the issue.
>>>
>>> 3) ftace log file
>>>
>>> 4) ip xfrm state list
> Does this occur if you use software crypto on the receiving end
> while keeping the sending end unchanged?

I tried with "authencesn(hmac(sha1-ssse3),cbc(aes-asm))" on both sides.

Server : iperf  -s  -w 512k  -p 20002

Client : iperf  -t 60 -w 512k -l 2048 -c 1.0.0.96 -P 32 -p 20002

>
> If not then I would start debugging this within your driver.

ESP Packet whose's sequence No. is out of window gets dropped with EBADMSG.  It seems that "xfrm_replay_seqhi" intentionally increments the "seq_hi" to fail verification for Out of seq packet.

>
> Thanks,