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Commit 0a3a8090 authored by Dmitry Safonov's avatar Dmitry Safonov Committed by David S. Miller
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net/tcp: Verify inbound TCP-AO signed segments



Now there is a common function to verify signature on TCP segments:
tcp_inbound_hash(). It has checks for all possible cross-interactions
with MD5 signs as well as with unsigned segments.

The rules from RFC5925 are:
(1) Any TCP segment can have at max only one signature.
(2) TCP connections can't switch between using TCP-MD5 and TCP-AO.
(3) TCP-AO connections can't stop using AO, as well as unsigned
    connections can't suddenly start using AO.

Co-developed-by: default avatarFrancesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrancesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@arista.com>
Co-developed-by: default avatarSalam Noureddine <noureddine@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSalam Noureddine <noureddine@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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