This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

mac80211: don't compare TKIP TX MIC key in reinstall prevention

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: mac80211-don-t-compare-tkip-tx-mic-key-in-reinstall-prevention.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@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From cfbb0d90a7abb289edc91833d0905931f8805f12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 21:12:13 +0200 Subject: mac80211: don't compare TKIP TX MIC key in reinstall prevention

From: Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com

commit cfbb0d90a7abb289edc91833d0905931f8805f12 upstream.

For the reinstall prevention, the code I had added compares the whole key. It turns out though that iwlwifi firmware doesn't provide the TKIP TX MIC key as it's not needed in client mode, and thus the comparison will always return false.

For client mode, thus always zero out the TX MIC key part before doing the comparison in order to avoid accepting the reinstall of the key with identical encryption and RX MIC key, but not the same TX MIC key (since the supplicant provides the real one.)

Fixes: fdf7cb4185b6 ("mac80211: accept key reinstall without changing anything") Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com Cc: Ben Hutchings ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- net/mac80211/key.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/mac80211/key.c +++ b/net/mac80211/key.c @@ -609,6 +609,39 @@ void ieee80211_key_free_unused(struct ie ieee80211_key_free_common(key); }

+static bool ieee80211_key_identical(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, + struct ieee80211_key *old, + struct ieee80211_key *new) +{ + u8 tkip_old[WLAN_KEY_LEN_TKIP], tkip_new[WLAN_KEY_LEN_TKIP]; + u8 *tk_old, *tk_new; + + if (!old || new->conf.keylen != old->conf.keylen) + return false; + + tk_old = old->conf.key; + tk_new = new->conf.key; + + /* + * In station mode, don't compare the TX MIC key, as it's never used + * and offloaded rekeying may not care to send it to the host. This + * is the case in iwlwifi, for example. + */ + if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION && + new->conf.cipher == WLAN_CIPHER_SUITE_TKIP && + new->conf.keylen == WLAN_KEY_LEN_TKIP && + !(new->conf.flags & IEEE80211_KEY_FLAG_PAIRWISE)) { + memcpy(tkip_old, tk_old, WLAN_KEY_LEN_TKIP); + memcpy(tkip_new, tk_new, WLAN_KEY_LEN_TKIP); + memset(tkip_old + NL80211_TKIP_DATA_OFFSET_TX_MIC_KEY, 0, 8); + memset(tkip_new + NL80211_TKIP_DATA_OFFSET_TX_MIC_KEY, 0, 8); + tk_old = tkip_old; + tk_new = tkip_new; + } + + return !crypto_memneq(tk_old, tk_new, new->conf.keylen); +} + int ieee80211_key_link(struct ieee80211_key *key, struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, struct sta_info *sta) @@ -634,8 +667,7 @@ int ieee80211_key_link(struct ieee80211_ * Silently accept key re-installation without really installing the * new version of the key to avoid nonce reuse or replay issues. */ - if (old_key && key->conf.keylen == old_key->conf.keylen && - !crypto_memneq(key->conf.key, old_key->conf.key, key->conf.keylen)) { + if (ieee80211_key_identical(sdata, old_key, key)) { ieee80211_key_free_unused(key); ret = 0; goto out;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johannes.berg@intel.com are

queue-4.9/mac80211-use-constant-time-comparison-with-keys.patch queue-4.9/mac80211-don-t-compare-tkip-tx-mic-key-in-reinstall-prevention.patch queue-4.9/mac80211-accept-key-reinstall-without-changing-anything.patch