+linux-crypto On 26-12-2018 14:54, Harsh Jain wrote: > Hi All, > > Kernel version on both machines: 4.19.7. > > Packet drops with EBADMSG is observed on receive end of connection. It seems that sometimes crypto driver receives packet with wrong "seq_hi" value in AAD. See below the dump of assoc data for 1 such instance. > > [ 380.823454] assoclen 8th byte 1 clen 1464 op 1 ==> High byte of ESN > [ 380.828398] authsize 12 cryptlen 1464 > [ 380.832637] dt00000000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 ==> Decrypted data seems correct,last byte is proto(06 TCP) > [ 380.840215] dt00000010: bf ee 4f 80 a4 7f 2a 50 6a 5a 0b 10 > [ 380.846636] ass00000000: 0a bc d3 31 <00 00 00 01> 00 1c e5 ec 0e af 04 69 ==> ESN-Hi = 1 > [ 380.854316] ass00000010: a4 fc 08 ad > > Note: If I decrypt the same packet with ESN - Hi = 0. It Decrypt successfully means peer machine has used ESN-HI = 0 while encrypting. > > To debug further we added trace in "xfrm_replay_seqhi". Following was the output: > > <idle>-0 [003] ..s. 380.967766: xfrm_replay_seqhi: seq_hi 0x 1 seq 0x 1ce5ec bottom 0x 1ce5ee replay seq 0x 1ce62d replay window 0x 40 > > 1) Is this an expected variable with ESN enables connection?. > > 2) If packets are supposed to be dropped can't we avoid decryption overhead. > > Following logs are attached > > 1) dmesg log > > 2) debug patch used to reproduce the issue. > > 3) ftace log file > > 4) ip xfrm state list > > > Regards > > Harsh Jain > >