Thread (12 messages) 12 messages, 5 authors, 2015-10-21

Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] xfrm: Fix unaligned access in xfrm_notify_sa() for DELSA

From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Date: 2015-10-21 06:57:10
Also in: linux-crypto, lkml

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 05:23:29PM -0400, Sowmini Varadhan wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
On sparc, deleting established SAs (e.g., by restarting ipsec
at the peer) results in unaligned access messages via
xfrm_del_sa -> km_state_notify -> xfrm_send_state_notify().
Use an aligned pointer to xfrm_usersa_info for this case.

Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <redacted>
---
 net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
index a8de9e3..158ef4a 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
@@ -2659,7 +2659,7 @@ static int xfrm_notify_sa(struct xfrm_state *x, const struct km_event *c)
 		if (attr == NULL)
 			goto out_free_skb;
 
-		p = nla_data(attr);
+		p = PTR_ALIGN(nla_data(attr), __alignof__(*p));
Hm, this breaks userspace notifications on 64-bit systems.
Userspace expects this to be aligned to 4, with your patch
it is aligned to 8 on 64-bit.

Without your patch I get the correct notification when deleting a SA:

ip x m

Deleted src 172.16.0.2 dst 172.16.0.1
        proto esp spi 0x00000002 reqid 2 mode tunnel
        replay-window 32
        auth-trunc hmac(sha1) 0x31323334353637383930 96
        enc cbc(aes) 0x31323334353637383930313233343536
        sel src 10.0.0.0/24 dst 192.168.0.0/24

With your patch I get for the same SA:

ip x m

Deleted src 50.0.0.0 dst 0.0.0.0
        proto 0 reqid 0 mode transport
        replay-window 0 flag decap-dscp
        auth-trunc hmac(sha1) 0x31323334353637383930 96
        enc cbc(aes) 0x31323334353637383930313233343536
        sel src 0.0.0.0/0 dst 0.234.255.255/0 proto igmp
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