Re: [RFCv2 1/9] tcp: authopt: Initial support and key management
From: Leonard Crestez
Date: Wed Aug 11 2021 - 04:29:16 EST
On 8/10/21 11:41 PM, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
Hi Leonard,
On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 at 02:50, Leonard Crestez <cdleonard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[..]
+/* Representation of a Master Key Tuple as per RFC5925 */
+struct tcp_authopt_key_info {
+ struct hlist_node node;
+ /* Local identifier */
+ u32 local_id;
There is no local_id in RFC5925, what's that?
An MKT is identified by (send_id, recv_id), together with
(src_addr/src_port, dst_addr/dst_port).
Why introducing something new to already complicated RFC?
It was there to simplify user interface and initial implementation.
But it seems that BGP listeners already needs to support multiple
keychains for different peers so identifying the key by (send_id,
recv_id, binding) is easier for userspace to work with. Otherwise they
need to create their own local_id mapping internally.
+ u32 flags;
+ /* Wire identifiers */
+ u8 send_id, recv_id;
+ u8 alg_id;
+ u8 keylen;
+ u8 key[TCP_AUTHOPT_MAXKEYLEN];
+ struct rcu_head rcu;
This is unaligned and will add padding.
Not clear padding matters. Moving rcu_head higher would avoid it, is
that what you're suggesting.
I wonder if it's also worth saving some bytes by something like
struct tcp_ao_key *key;
With
struct tcp_ao_key {
u8 keylen;
u8 key[0];
};
Hmm?
This increases memory management complexity for very minor gains. Very
few tcp_authopt_key will ever be created.
+ struct sockaddr_storage addr;
+};
+
+/* Per-socket information regarding tcp_authopt */
+struct tcp_authopt_info {
+ /* List of tcp_authopt_key_info */
+ struct hlist_head head;
+ u32 flags;
+ u32 src_isn;
+ u32 dst_isn;
+ struct rcu_head rcu;
Ditto, adds padding on 64-bit.
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+++ b/include/uapi/linux/tcp.h
@@ -126,10 +126,12 @@ enum {
#define TCP_INQ 36 /* Notify bytes available to read as a cmsg on read */
#define TCP_CM_INQ TCP_INQ
#define TCP_TX_DELAY 37 /* delay outgoing packets by XX usec */
+#define TCP_AUTHOPT 38 /* TCP Authentication Option (RFC2385) */
+#define TCP_AUTHOPT_KEY 39 /* TCP Authentication Option update key (RFC2385) */
RFC2385 is md5 one.
Also, should there be TCP_AUTHOPT_ADD_KEY, TCP_AUTHOPT_DELTE_KEY
instead of using flags inside setsocketopt()? (no hard feelings)
Fixed RFC reference.
TCP_AUTHOPT_DELETE_KEY could be clearer, I just wanted to avoid bloating
the sockopt space. But there's not any scarcity.
For reference tcp_md5 handles key deletion based on keylen == 0. This
seems wrong to me, an empty key is in fact valid though not realistic.
If local_id is removed in favor of "full match on id and binding" then
the delete sockopt would still need most of a full struct
tcp_authopt_key anyway.
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+/**
+ * enum tcp_authopt_flag - flags for `tcp_authopt.flags`
+ */
+enum tcp_authopt_flag {
+ /**
+ * @TCP_AUTHOPT_FLAG_REJECT_UNEXPECTED:
+ * Configure behavior of segments with TCP-AO coming from hosts for which no
+ * key is configured. The default recommended by RFC is to silently accept
+ * such connections.
+ */
+ TCP_AUTHOPT_FLAG_REJECT_UNEXPECTED = (1 << 2),
+};
+
+/**
+ * struct tcp_authopt - Per-socket options related to TCP Authentication Option
+ */
+struct tcp_authopt {
+ /** @flags: Combination of &enum tcp_authopt_flag */
+ __u32 flags;
+};
I'm not sure what's the use of enum here, probably: > #define TCP_AUTHOPT_FLAG_REJECT_UNEXPECTED BIT(2)
This is an enum because it looks nice in kernel-doc. I couldn't find a
way to attach docs to a macro and include it somewhere else. BTW, the
enum gains more members later.
As for BIT() it doesn't see to be allowed in uapi and there were recent
changes removing such usage.
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+struct tcp_authopt_key {
+ /** @flags: Combination of &enum tcp_authopt_key_flag */
+ __u32 flags;
+ /** @local_id: Local identifier */
+ __u32 local_id;
+ /** @send_id: keyid value for send */
+ __u8 send_id;
+ /** @recv_id: keyid value for receive */
+ __u8 recv_id;
+ /** @alg: One of &enum tcp_authopt_alg */
+ __u8 alg;
+ /** @keylen: Length of the key buffer */
+ __u8 keylen;
+ /** @key: Secret key */
+ __u8 key[TCP_AUTHOPT_MAXKEYLEN];
+ /**
+ * @addr: Key is only valid for this address
+ *
+ * Ignored unless TCP_AUTHOPT_KEY_ADDR_BIND flag is set
+ */
+ struct __kernel_sockaddr_storage addr;
+};
It'll be an ABI if this is accepted. As it is - it can't support RFC5925 fully.
Extending syscall ABI is painful. I think, even the initial ABI *must* support
all possible features of the RFC.
In other words, there must be src_addr, src_port, dst_addr and dst_port.
I can see from docs you've written you don't want to support a mix of different
addr/port MKTs, so you can return -EINVAL or -ENOTSUPP for any value
but zero.
This will create an ABI that can be later extended to fully support RFC.
RFC states that MKT connection identifiers can be specified using ranges
and wildcards and the details are up to the implementation. Keys are
*NOT* just bound to a classical TCP 4-tuple.
* src_addr and src_port is implicit in socket binding. Maybe in theory
src_addr they could apply for a server socket bound to 0.0.0.0:PORT but
userspace can just open more sockets.
* dst_port is not supported by MD5 and I can't think of any useful
usecase. This is either well known (179 for BGP) or auto-allocated.
* tcp_md5 was recently enhanced allow a "prefixlen" for addr and
"l3mdev" ifindex binding.
This last point shows that the binding features people require can't be
easily predicted in advance so it's better to allow the rules to be
extended.
The same is about key: I don't think you need to define/use tcp_authopt_alg.
Just use algo name - that way TCP-AO will automatically be able to use
any algo supported by crypto engine.
See how xfrm does it, e.g.:
struct xfrm_algo_auth {
char alg_name[64];
unsigned int alg_key_len; /* in bits */
unsigned int alg_trunc_len; /* in bits */
char alg_key[0];
};
So you can let a user chose maclen instead of hard-coding it.
Much more extendable than what you propose.
This complicates ABI and implementation with features that are not
needed. I'd much rather only expose an enum of real-world tcp-ao algorithms.
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+#ifdef CONFIG_TCP_AUTHOPT
+ case TCP_AUTHOPT: {
+ struct tcp_authopt info;
+
+ if (get_user(len, optlen))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
+ lock_sock(sk);
+ tcp_get_authopt_val(sk, &info);
+ release_sock(sk);
+
+ len = min_t(unsigned int, len, sizeof(info));
+ if (put_user(len, optlen))
+ return -EFAULT;
+ if (copy_to_user(optval, &info, len))
+ return -EFAULT;
+ return 0;
+ }
I'm pretty sure it's not a good choice to write partly tcp_authopt.
And a user has no way to check what's the correct len on this kernel.
Instead of len = min_t(unsigned int, len, sizeof(info)), it should be
if (len != sizeof(info))
return -EINVAL;
Purpose is to allow sockopts to grow as md5 has grown.
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+int tcp_set_authopt(struct sock *sk, sockptr_t optval, unsigned int optlen)
+{
+ struct tcp_authopt opt;
+ struct tcp_authopt_info *info;
+
+ WARN_ON(!lockdep_sock_is_held(sk));
sock_owned_by_me(sk)
Yes, this seems better. I think there are several socket locking
mistakes in later commits. The patch adding support for detailed keyid
control probably needs bh_lock_sock to avoid races between key selection
and caching on send and key manipulation by userspace.
+ /* If userspace optlen is too short fill the rest with zeros */
+ if (optlen > sizeof(opt))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ memset(&opt, 0, sizeof(opt));
it's 4 bytes, why not just (optlen != sizeof(opt))?
It's extended in a later commit to add detailed keyid control.
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+int tcp_get_authopt_val(struct sock *sk, struct tcp_authopt *opt)
+{
+ struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
+ struct tcp_authopt_info *info;
+
+ WARN_ON(!lockdep_sock_is_held(sk));
sock_owned_by_me(sk)
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+int tcp_set_authopt_key(struct sock *sk, sockptr_t optval, unsigned int optlen)
+{
+ struct tcp_authopt_key opt;
+ struct tcp_authopt_info *info;
+ struct tcp_authopt_key_info *key_info;
+
+ /* If userspace optlen is too short fill the rest with zeros */
+ if (optlen > sizeof(opt))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ memset(&opt, 0, sizeof(opt));
+ if (copy_from_sockptr(&opt, optval, optlen))
+ return -EFAULT;
Again, not a good practice to zero-extend struct. Enforce proper size
with -EINVAL.
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+ /* Initialize tcp_authopt_info if not already set */
+ info = __tcp_authopt_info_get_or_create(sk);
+ if (IS_ERR(info))
+ return PTR_ERR(info);
+
+ /* check key family */
+ if (opt.flags & TCP_AUTHOPT_KEY_ADDR_BIND) {
+ if (sk->sk_family != opt.addr.ss_family)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
Probably, can be in the reverse order, so that
__tcp_authopt_info_get_or_create()
won't allocate memory.
OK. It only saves a tiny bit of memory on API misuse.
+ /* If an old value exists for same local_id it is deleted */
+ key_info = __tcp_authopt_key_info_lookup(sk, info, opt.local_id);
+ if (key_info)
+ tcp_authopt_key_del(sk, info, key_info);
+ key_info = sock_kmalloc(sk, sizeof(*key_info), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
+ if (!key_info)
+ return -ENOMEM;
1. You don't need sock_kmalloc() together with tcp_authopt_key_del().
It just frees the memory and allocates it back straight away - no
sense in doing that.
The list is scanned in multiple places in later commits using nothing
but an rcu_read_lock, this means that keys can't be updated in-place.
2. I think RFC says you must not allow a user to change an existing key:
MKT parameters are not changed. Instead, new MKTs can be installed, and a connection
can change which MKT it uses.
IIUC, it means that one can't just change an existing MKT, but one can
remove and later
add MKT with the same (send_id, recv_id, src_addr/port, dst_addr/port).
So, a reasonable thing to do:
if (key_info)
return -EEXIST.
You're right, making the user delete keys explicitly is better.
--
Regards,
Leonard