bugfix for xfrm user interface

Thomas Walpuski (thomas@bender.thinknerd.de)
Mon, 27 Jan 2003 23:40:56 +0100


By playing around with the xfrm user interface I found two bugs.

The xfrm user interface does not transmit authentication and/or
encryption keys, when it is asked for via netlink-sockets. IMO the keys
should be transmitted at least for debugging purpose.

ATM it's impossible to make the kernel dump all security policies via
netlink-sockets due to a semantic error in xfrm_user_rcv_msg().

The following patch fixes both issues:

--- /usr/src/linux/net/ipv4/xfrm_user.c.orig 2003-01-16 19:44:49.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/src/linux/net/ipv4/xfrm_user.c 2003-01-16 20:41:54.000000000 +0100
@@ -276,9 +276,11 @@
copy_to_user_state(x, p);

if (x->aalg)
- RTA_PUT(skb, XFRMA_ALG_AUTH, sizeof(*(x->aalg)), x->aalg);
+ RTA_PUT(skb, XFRMA_ALG_AUTH,
+ sizeof(*(x->aalg))+(x->aalg->alg_key_len+7)/8, x->aalg);
if (x->ealg)
- RTA_PUT(skb, XFRMA_ALG_CRYPT, sizeof(*(x->ealg)), x->ealg);
+ RTA_PUT(skb, XFRMA_ALG_CRYPT,
+ sizeof(*(x->ealg))+(x->ealg->alg_key_len+7)/8, x->ealg);
if (x->calg)
RTA_PUT(skb, XFRMA_ALG_COMP, sizeof(*(x->calg)), x->calg);

@@ -655,6 +657,7 @@
info.in_skb = cb->skb;
info.out_skb = skb;
info.nlmsg_seq = cb->nlh->nlmsg_seq;
+ info.this_idx = 0;
info.start_idx = cb->args[0];
(void) xfrm_policy_walk(dump_one_policy, &info);
cb->args[0] = info.this_idx;
@@ -752,7 +755,7 @@
{
struct rtattr *xfrma[XFRMA_MAX];
struct xfrm_link *link;
- int type, min_len, kind;
+ int type, min_len;

if (!(nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_REQUEST))
return 0;
@@ -768,7 +771,6 @@
goto err_einval;

type -= XFRM_MSG_BASE;
- kind = (type & 3);
link = &xfrm_dispatch[type];

/* All operations require privileges, even GET */
@@ -777,7 +779,7 @@
return -1;
}

- if (kind == 2 && (nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_DUMP)) {
+ if ((type == 2 || type == 5) && (nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_DUMP)) {
u32 rlen;

if (link->dump == NULL)

BTW: I've done a port of isakmpd to Linux 2.5 which uses PFKEYv2-sockets
for sake of simplicity (read: because I'm lazy). The patch and tarballs
with prepatched sources can be found at http://bender.thinknerd.de/
~thomas/isakmpd-linux-2.5/. I've done some testing on 2.5.56 and it
seems to be quite stable (there have been no problems within one week
heavy usage).
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