[IPSEC]: Fix catch-22 with algorithm IDs above 31

As it stands it's impossible to use any authentication algorithms with an ID above 31 portably. It just happens to work on x86 but fails miserably on ppc64. The reason is that we're using a bit mask to check the algorithm ID but the mask is only 32 bits wide. After looking at how this is used in the field, I have concluded that in the long term we should phase out state matching by IDs because this is made superfluous by the reqid feature. For current applications, the best solution IMHO is to allow all algorithms when the bit masks are all ~0. The following patch does exactly that. This bug was identified by IBM when testing on the ppc64 platform using the NULL authentication algorithm which has an ID of 251. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
kishon · Apr 22, 2008 · c5d18e9 · c5d18e9
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diff --git a/include/net/xfrm.h b/include/net/xfrm.h
@@ -436,6 +436,9 @@ struct xfrm_tmpl
 /* May skip this transfomration if no SA is found */
 	__u8			optional;
 
+/* Skip aalgos/ealgos/calgos checks. */
+	__u8			allalgs;
+
 /* Bit mask of algos allowed for acquisition */
 	__u32			aalgos;
 	__u32			ealgos;

diff --git a/net/key/af_key.c b/net/key/af_key.c
@@ -1907,7 +1907,7 @@ parse_ipsecrequest(struct xfrm_policy *xp, struct sadb_x_ipsecrequest *rq)
 		t->encap_family = xp->family;
 
 	/* No way to set this via kame pfkey */
-	t->aalgos = t->ealgos = t->calgos = ~0;
+	t->allalgs = 1;
 	xp->xfrm_nr++;
 	return 0;
 }

diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
@@ -1819,7 +1819,7 @@ xfrm_state_ok(struct xfrm_tmpl *tmpl, struct xfrm_state *x,
 		(x->id.spi == tmpl->id.spi || !tmpl->id.spi) &&
 		(x->props.reqid == tmpl->reqid || !tmpl->reqid) &&
 		x->props.mode == tmpl->mode &&
-		((tmpl->aalgos & (1<<x->props.aalgo)) ||
+		(tmpl->allalgs || (tmpl->aalgos & (1<<x->props.aalgo)) ||
 		 !(xfrm_id_proto_match(tmpl->id.proto, IPSEC_PROTO_ANY))) &&
 		!(x->props.mode != XFRM_MODE_TRANSPORT &&
 		  xfrm_state_addr_cmp(tmpl, x, family));

diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
@@ -981,6 +981,8 @@ static void copy_templates(struct xfrm_policy *xp, struct xfrm_user_tmpl *ut,
 		t->aalgos = ut->aalgos;
 		t->ealgos = ut->ealgos;
 		t->calgos = ut->calgos;
+		/* If all masks are ~0, then we allow all algorithms. */
+		t->allalgs = !~(t->aalgos & t->ealgos & t->calgos);
 		t->encap_family = ut->family;
 	}
 }