[PATCH 2/3] XFRM: RFC4303 compliant auditing

Paul Moore paul.moore at hp.com
Fri Dec 21 13:51:22 UTC 2007


On Friday 21 December 2007 8:27:23 am Paul Moore wrote:
> On Friday 21 December 2007 4:43:10 am David Miller wrote:
> > From: Paul Moore <paul.moore at hp.com>
> > Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:42:25 -0500
> >
> > > This patch adds a number of new IPsec audit events to meet the auditing
> > > requirements of RFC4303.  This includes audit hooks for the following
> > > events:
> > >
> > >  * Could not find a valid SA [sections 2.1, 3.4.2]
> > >    . xfrm_audit_state_notfound()
> > >    . xfrm_audit_state_notfound_simple()
> > >
> > >  * Sequence number overflow [section 3.3.3]
> > >    . xfrm_audit_state_replay_overflow()
> > >
> > >  * Replayed packet [section 3.4.3]
> > >    . xfrm_audit_state_replay()
> > >
> > >  * Integrity check failure [sections 3.4.4.1, 3.4.4.2]
> > >    . xfrm_audit_state_icvfail()
> > >
> > > While RFC4304 deals only with ESP most of the changes in this patch
> > > apply to IPsec in general, i.e. both AH and ESP.  The one case,
> > > integrity check failure, where ESP specific code had to be modified the
> > > same was done to the AH code for the sake of consistency.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore at hp.com>
> >
> > This doesn't apply at all to net-2.6.25, in particular
> > xfrm6_input_addr() doesn't even have a local variable
> > named "xfrm_vec_one" let alone the conditional where you're
> > adding the state notfound audit hook.
> >
> > Please respin this and the third patch, thanks.
>
> Sorry about that, I must have missed something (or probably just updated
> the wrong tree on accident).  I'll respin the patches and send them out
> today.

Ah, looks like I may not be crazy after all!  It looks like the XFRM patches 
from Masahide NAKAMURA were pulled into net-2.6.25 just before mine last 
night which caused my patches to conflict ...

-- 
paul moore
linux security @ hp




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