sctp: Convert cookie authentication to use HMAC-SHA256

Convert SCTP cookies to use HMAC-SHA256, instead of the previous choice
of the legacy algorithms HMAC-MD5 and HMAC-SHA1.  Simplify and optimize
the code by using the HMAC-SHA256 library instead of crypto_shash, and
by preparing the HMAC key when it is generated instead of per-operation.

This doesn't break compatibility, since the cookie format is an
implementation detail, not part of the SCTP protocol itself.

Note that the cookie size doesn't change either.  The HMAC field was
already 32 bytes, even though previously at most 20 bytes were actually
compared.  32 bytes exactly fits an untruncated HMAC-SHA256 value.  So,
although we could safely truncate the MAC to something slightly shorter,
for now just keep the cookie size the same.

I also considered SipHash, but that would generate only 8-byte MACs.  An
8-byte MAC *might* suffice here.  However, there's quite a lot of
information in the SCTP cookies: more than in TCP SYN cookies.  So
absent an analysis that occasional forgeries of all that information is
okay in SCTP, I errored on the side of caution.

Remove HMAC-MD5 and HMAC-SHA1 as options, since the new HMAC-SHA256
option is just better.  It's faster as well as more secure.  For
example, benchmarking on x86_64, cookie authentication is now nearly 3x
as fast as the previous default choice and implementation of HMAC-MD5.

Also just make the kernel always support cookie authentication if SCTP
is supported at all, rather than making it optional in the build.  (It
was sort of optional before, but it didn't really work properly.  E.g.,
a kernel with CONFIG_SCTP_COOKIE_HMAC_MD5=n still supported HMAC-MD5
cookie authentication if CONFIG_CRYPTO_HMAC and CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5
happened to be enabled in the kconfig for other reasons.)

Acked-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250818205426.30222-5-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 23 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/sctp/structs.h b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
index 6be6aec25731..2ae390219efd 100644
--- a/include/net/sctp/structs.h
+++ b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 #ifndef __sctp_structs_h__
 #define __sctp_structs_h__
 
+#include <crypto/sha2.h>
 #include <linux/ktime.h>
 #include <linux/generic-radix-tree.h>
 #include <linux/rhashtable-types.h>
@@ -68,7 +69,6 @@ struct sctp_outq;
 struct sctp_bind_addr;
 struct sctp_ulpq;
 struct sctp_ep_common;
-struct crypto_shash;
 struct sctp_stream;
 
 
@@ -155,10 +155,6 @@ struct sctp_sock {
 	/* PF_ family specific functions.  */
 	struct sctp_pf *pf;
 
-	/* Access to HMAC transform. */
-	struct crypto_shash *hmac;
-	char *sctp_hmac_alg;
-
 	/* What is our base endpointer? */
 	struct sctp_endpoint *ep;
 
@@ -227,7 +223,8 @@ struct sctp_sock {
 		frag_interleave:1,
 		recvrcvinfo:1,
 		recvnxtinfo:1,
-		data_ready_signalled:1;
+		data_ready_signalled:1,
+		cookie_auth_enable:1;
 
 	atomic_t pd_mode;
 
@@ -335,7 +332,7 @@ struct sctp_cookie {
 
 /* The format of our cookie that we send to our peer. */
 struct sctp_signed_cookie {
-	__u8 signature[SCTP_SECRET_SIZE];
+	__u8 mac[SCTP_COOKIE_MAC_SIZE];
 	__u32 __pad;		/* force sctp_cookie alignment to 64 bits */
 	struct sctp_cookie c;
 } __packed;
@@ -1307,22 +1304,9 @@ struct sctp_endpoint {
 	/* This is really a list of struct sctp_association entries. */
 	struct list_head asocs;
 
-	/* Secret Key: A secret key used by this endpoint to compute
-	 *	      the MAC.	This SHOULD be a cryptographic quality
-	 *	      random number with a sufficient length.
-	 *	      Discussion in [RFC1750] can be helpful in
-	 *	      selection of the key.
-	 */
-	__u8 secret_key[SCTP_SECRET_SIZE];
-
- 	/* digest:  This is a digest of the sctp cookie.  This field is
- 	 * 	    only used on the receive path when we try to validate
- 	 * 	    that the cookie has not been tampered with.  We put
- 	 * 	    this here so we pre-allocate this once and can re-use
- 	 * 	    on every receive.
- 	 */
- 	__u8 *digest;
- 
+	/* Cookie authentication key used by this endpoint */
+	struct hmac_sha256_key cookie_auth_key;
+
 	/* sendbuf acct. policy.	*/
 	__u32 sndbuf_policy;