6.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org
commit a458b2902115b26a25d67393b12ddd57d1216aaa upstream.
To prevent timing attacks, MACs need to be compared in constant time. Use the appropriate helper function for this.
Fixes: bf355b8d2c30 ("ipv6: sr: add core files for SR HMAC support") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Andrea Mayer andrea.mayer@uniroma2.it Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250818202724.15713-1-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/ipv6/seg6_hmac.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/ipv6/seg6_hmac.c +++ b/net/ipv6/seg6_hmac.c @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ #include <net/xfrm.h>
#include <crypto/hash.h> +#include <crypto/utils.h> #include <net/seg6.h> #include <net/genetlink.h> #include <net/seg6_hmac.h> @@ -280,7 +281,7 @@ bool seg6_hmac_validate_skb(struct sk_bu if (seg6_hmac_compute(hinfo, srh, &ipv6_hdr(skb)->saddr, hmac_output)) return false;
- if (memcmp(hmac_output, tlv->hmac, SEG6_HMAC_FIELD_LEN) != 0) + if (crypto_memneq(hmac_output, tlv->hmac, SEG6_HMAC_FIELD_LEN)) return false;
return true;