Re: [PATCH] libceph: Re-establish the FIPS keylength check in the Ceph code

[Eric Biggers]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2026 at 04:43:22PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> When the Ceph code had been updated to use the libcrypto hmac_sha256
> functions instead of the "hmac(sha256)" crypto shash driver, we lost
> the FIPS key length check from  hmac_setkey() in crypto/hmac.c.

Well, except on s390 which already didn't do the FIPS key length check.

> @@ -720,6 +722,9 @@ static int setup_crypto(struct ceph_connection *con,
>  		return 0;  /* auth_none */
>  	}
>  
> +	if (fips_enabled && session_key_len < 112 / 8)
> +		return -EKEYREJECTED;
> +

I assume it's intentional that auth_none is still FIPS-allowed?  Kind of
ironic.

Do Ceph session keys shorter than 128 bits even actually occur in
practice?  It seems that the Ceph authenticated modes support only
AES-based cipher suites, where the minimum valid session key length is
128 bits.

I wonder if the client should just reject session_key_len < 16
regardless of fips_enabled.

- Eric