Patch "IPsec: do not ignore crypto err in ah4 input" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

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

IPsec: do not ignore crypto err in ah4 input

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
ipsec-do-not-ignore-crypto-err-in-ah4-input.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Gilad Ben-Yossef <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 13:17:55 +0200
Subject: IPsec: do not ignore crypto err in ah4 input

From: Gilad Ben-Yossef <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit ebd89a2d0675f1325c2be5b7576fd8cb7e8defd0 ]

ah4 input processing uses the asynchronous hash crypto API which supplies an error code as part of the operation completion but the error code was being ignored.

Treat a crypto API error indication as a verification failure.

While a crypto API reported error would almost certainly result in a memcpy of the digest failing anyway and thus the security risk seems minor, performing a memory compare on what might be uninitialized memory is wrong.

---
 net/ipv4/ah4.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

@@ -270,6 +270,9 @@ static void ah_input_done(struct crypto_
 	int ihl = ip_hdrlen(skb);
 	int ah_hlen = (ah->hdrlen + 2) << 2;
 
+	if (err)
+		goto out;
+
 	work_iph = AH_SKB_CB(skb)->tmp;
 	auth_data = ah_tmp_auth(work_iph, ihl);
 	icv = ah_tmp_icv(ahp->ahash, auth_data, ahp->icv_trunc_len);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.18/ipsec-do-not-ignore-crypto-err-in-ah4-input.patch