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From: Iuliana Prodan <iuliana.prodan@nxp.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org" <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	dl-linux-imx <linux-imx@nxp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: gcm - restrict assoclen for rfc4543
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 14:56:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <VI1PR04MB44451D12B66EE3FADA1ECE208CC80@VI1PR04MB4445.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20190718144647.bbsd65qabqpafehe@gondor.apana.org.au

On 7/18/2019 5:46 PM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 05:43:04PM +0300, Iuliana Prodan wrote:
>> Based on seqiv, IPsec ESP and rfc4543/rfc4106 the assoclen can be 16 or
>> 20 bytes.
>>
>> >From esp4/esp6, assoclen is sizeof IP Header. This includes spi, seq_no
>> and extended seq_no, that is 8 or 12 bytes.
>> In seqiv, to asscolen is added the IV size (8 bytes).
>> Therefore, the assoclen, for rfc4543, should be restricted to 16 or 20
>> bytes, as for rfc4106.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Iuliana Prodan <iuliana.prodan@nxp.com>
> 
> Why does this matter? Is it for the fuzz test?
> 
> Cheers,
> 

Yes, this is for fuzz testing.
The generic implementation for rfc4543 considers any assoclen valid, 
which is not correct.

Regards,
Iulia

  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-18 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-18 14:43 [PATCH] crypto: gcm - restrict assoclen for rfc4543 Iuliana Prodan
2019-07-18 14:46 ` Herbert Xu
2019-07-18 14:56   ` Iuliana Prodan [this message]
2019-07-18 14:59     ` Herbert Xu
2019-07-18 15:11       ` Herbert Xu
2019-07-19  7:13         ` Iuliana Prodan

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