Re: [PATCH 4.4 19/92] sctp: delay the authentication for the duplicated cookie-echo chunk

[Marcelo Ricardo Leitner]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 11:31:47PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-05-24 at 11:37 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > [ Upstream commit 59d8d4434f429b4fa8a346fd889058bda427a837 ]
> > 
> > Now sctp only delays the authentication for the normal cookie-echo
> > chunk by setting chunk->auth_chunk in sctp_endpoint_bh_rcv(). But
> > for the duplicated one with auth, in sctp_assoc_bh_rcv(), it does
> > authentication first based on the old asoc, which will definitely
> > fail due to the different auth info in the old asoc.
> [...]
> > --- a/net/sctp/associola.c
> > +++ b/net/sctp/associola.c
> > @@ -1000,9 +1000,10 @@ static void sctp_assoc_bh_rcv(struct wor
> >  	struct sctp_endpoint *ep;
> >  	struct sctp_chunk *chunk;
> >  	struct sctp_inq *inqueue;
> > -	int state;
> >  	sctp_subtype_t subtype;
> > +	int first_time = 1;	/* is this the first time through the loop */
> >  	int error = 0;
> > +	int state;
> >  
> >  	/* The association should be held so we should be safe. */
> >  	ep = asoc->ep;
> > @@ -1013,6 +1014,30 @@ static void sctp_assoc_bh_rcv(struct wor
> >  		state = asoc->state;
> >  		subtype = SCTP_ST_CHUNK(chunk->chunk_hdr->type);
> >  
> > +		/* If the first chunk in the packet is AUTH, do special
> > +		 * processing specified in Section 6.3 of SCTP-AUTH spec
> > +		 */
> > +		if (first_time && subtype.chunk == SCTP_CID_AUTH) {
> > +			struct sctp_chunkhdr *next_hdr;
> > +
> > +			next_hdr = sctp_inq_peek(inqueue);
> > +			if (!next_hdr)
> > +				goto normal;
> > +
> > +			/* If the next chunk is COOKIE-ECHO, skip the AUTH
> > +			 * chunk while saving a pointer to it so we can do
> > +			 * Authentication later (during cookie-echo
> > +			 * processing).
> > +			 */
> > +			if (next_hdr->type == SCTP_CID_COOKIE_ECHO) {
> > +				chunk->auth_chunk = skb_clone(chunk->skb,
> > +							      GFP_ATOMIC);
> > +				chunk->auth = 1;
> 
> Doesn't the first_time flag need to be cleared here (and before the
> other continue statement in this loop)?

Seems the description is not matching the code closely. As is,
first_time is about the first time an AUTH chunk is handled followed
by a COOKIE-ECHO chunk (which is what we wanted, in the end), and not
strictly enforcing 'first chunk in the packet', as the description
says.

We should rename this first_time into a chunk counter instead. It
may even help with debugging on crashes.

Thanks for reviewing this, btw.

  Marcelo

> 
> Ben.
> 
> > +				continue;
> > +			}
> > +		}
> > +
> > +normal:
> [...]
> 
> -- 
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