This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mac80211: use constant time comparison with keys
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mac80211-use-constant-time-comparison-with-keys.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 2bdd713b92a9cade239d3c7d15205a09f556624d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 20:32:07 +0200
Subject: mac80211: use constant time comparison with keys
From: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 2bdd713b92a9cade239d3c7d15205a09f556624d upstream.
Otherwise we risk leaking information via timing side channel.
Fixes: fdf7cb4185b6 ("mac80211: accept key reinstall without changing anything")
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mac80211/key.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/mac80211/key.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/key.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <net/mac80211.h>
+#include <crypto/algapi.h>
#include <asm/unaligned.h>
#include "ieee80211_i.h"
#include "driver-ops.h"
@@ -634,7 +635,7 @@ int ieee80211_key_link(struct ieee80211_
* new version of the key to avoid nonce reuse or replay issues.
*/
if (old_key && key->conf.keylen == old_key->conf.keylen &&
- !memcmp(key->conf.key, old_key->conf.key, key->conf.keylen)) {
+ !crypto_memneq(key->conf.key, old_key->conf.key, key->conf.keylen)) {
ieee80211_key_free_unused(key);
ret = 0;
goto out;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Jason@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/mac80211-use-constant-time-comparison-with-keys.patch
queue-4.9/netlink-do-not-set-cb_running-if-dump-s-start-errs.patch