[PATCH v4 net] sctp: auth: verify auth requirement when auth_chunk is NULL
From: luoqing
Date: Mon Jul 20 2026 - 21:56:41 EST
From: Qing Luo <luoqing@xxxxxxxxxx>
sctp_auth_chunk_verify() returns true unconditionally when
chunk->auth_chunk is NULL, silently skipping authentication.
This is incorrect when:
1. skb_clone() failed in the BH receive path, leaving auth_chunk
NULL. In sctp_endpoint_bh_rcv() asoc is NULL for new
connections, so the early sctp_auth_recv_cid() check cannot
catch this.
2. No AUTH chunk precedes COOKIE-ECHO, so skb_clone() is never
called and auth_chunk remains NULL.
Fix by checking sctp_auth_recv_cid() when auth_chunk is NULL:
if authentication is required, return false to drop the chunk;
otherwise continue normally.
Fixes: bbd0d59809f9 ("[SCTP]: Implement the receive and verification of AUTH chunk")
Signed-off-by: Qing Luo <luoqing@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c b/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
index d23d935e128e..89ed618b1de3 100644
--- a/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
+++ b/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
@@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ static bool sctp_auth_chunk_verify(struct net *net, struct sctp_chunk *chunk,
struct sctp_chunk auth;
if (!chunk->auth_chunk)
- return true;
+ return !sctp_auth_recv_cid(chunk->chunk_hdr->type, asoc);
/* SCTP-AUTH: auth_chunk pointer is only set when the cookie-echo
* is supposed to be authenticated and we have to do delayed
--
2.25.1