Re: 5.41 - Authentication Failed with kernel 4.2.0

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016, Marcel Holtmann wrote:

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ACL Data RX: Handle 70 flags 0x02 dlen 11                    [hci0] 28.348460

     SMP: Pairing Response (0x02) len 6
       IO capability: NoInputNoOutput (0x03)
       OOB data: Authentication data not present (0x00)
       Authentication requirement: Bonding, No MITM, Legacy, No Keypresses (0x01)
       Max encryption key size: 16
       Initiator key distribution: EncKey Sign (0x05)
       Responder key distribution: EncKey IdKey Sign (0x07)
< ACL Data TX: Handle 70 flags 0x00 dlen 21                    [hci0] 28.348510
     SMP: Pairing Confirm (0x03) len 16
       Confim value: 12bd199ba4739a017395109cfa4621b3

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ACL Data RX: Handle 70 flags 0x02 dlen 21                    [hci0] 28.488508

     SMP: Pairing Confirm (0x03) len 16
       Confim value: 41f5f7a6212356d0eefa268f7994844a
< ACL Data TX: Handle 70 flags 0x00 dlen 21                    [hci0] 28.488545
     SMP: Pairing Random (0x04) len 16
       Random value: 4e8d532caf34ab845ff243acf6a0a681

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ACL Data RX: Handle 70 flags 0x02 dlen 6                     [hci0] 28.628456

     SMP: Pairing Failed (0x05) len 1
       Reason: Confirm value failed (0x04)
< HCI Command: Disconnect (0x01|0x0006) plen 3                 [hci0] 28.628506
       Handle: 70
       Reason: Authentication Failure (0x05)
@ Authentication Failed: 5C:31:3E:5E:54:5E (1) status 0x05

That "Confirm value failed" response still looks like something strange
is happening on the remote side - maybe a bug there. Unfortunately I
don't really have any other ideas except going for raw bisecting here if
you have a kernel version this did work with.

The inputs to the function that generates the confirm value are the
local and remote public keys and the random number that was sent over
the air, so there's not much that can go wrong there - also nothing I
can remember that would have changed on the Linux side regarding this
for a long time. This of course assumes that the remote device is using
this error code correctly and doesn't send it for some other condition.

I bet that the peripheral side wrongly clears some RFU bits. Which
leads to wrong values for confirm values.

Johannes, could you try to experiment and see whether this is the issue?
You can temporarily disable Secure Connections support with the command
"btmgmt sc off"

Johan