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Convert SCTP cookies to use HMAC-SHA256, instead of the previous choice of the legacy algorithms HMAC-MD5 and HMAC-SHA1. Simplify and optimize the code by using the HMAC-SHA256 library instead of crypto_shash, and by preparing the HMAC key when it is generated instead of per-operation. This doesn't break compatibility, since the cookie format is an implementation detail, not part of the SCTP protocol itself. Note that the cookie size doesn't change either. The HMAC field was already 32 bytes, even though previously at most 20 bytes were actually compared. 32 bytes exactly fits an untruncated HMAC-SHA256 value. So, although we could safely truncate the MAC to something slightly shorter, for now just keep the cookie size the same. I also considered SipHash, but that would generate only 8-byte MACs. An 8-byte MAC *might* suffice here. However, there's quite a lot of information in the SCTP cookies: more than in TCP SYN cookies. So absent an analysis that occasional forgeries of all that information is okay in SCTP, I errored on the side of caution. Remove HMAC-MD5 and HMAC-SHA1 as options, since the new HMAC-SHA256 option is just better. It's faster as well as more secure. For example, benchmarking on x86_64, cookie authentication is now nearly 3x as fast as the previous default choice and implementation of HMAC-MD5. Also just make the kernel always support cookie authentication if SCTP is supported at all, rather than making it optional in the build. (It was sort of optional before, but it didn't really work properly. E.g., a kernel with CONFIG_SCTP_COOKIE_HMAC_MD5=n still supported HMAC-MD5 cookie authentication if CONFIG_CRYPTO_HMAC and CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5 happened to be enabled in the kconfig for other reasons.) Acked-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250818205426.30222-5-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> |
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| bpf.h | ||
| can.h | ||
| conntrack.h | ||
| core.h | ||
| flow_table.h | ||
| generic.h | ||
| hash.h | ||
| ieee802154_6lowpan.h | ||
| ipv4.h | ||
| ipv6.h | ||
| mctp.h | ||
| mib.h | ||
| mpls.h | ||
| netfilter.h | ||
| nexthop.h | ||
| nftables.h | ||
| packet.h | ||
| sctp.h | ||
| smc.h | ||
| unix.h | ||
| xdp.h | ||
| xfrm.h | ||