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

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Date:   Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:06:21 +0530
From:   Harsh Jain <harsh@...lsio.com>
To:     Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Cc:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, 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 04-01-2019 14:04, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 04:16:56PM +0530, Harsh Jain wrote:
>> On 02-01-2019 18:21, Herbert Xu wrote:
>>> 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.
> Yes, this is defined in RFC 4303 Appendix A2.2.

Thanks, It means we cannot avoid verification part for packets with low seql.