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Commit 0aadc739 authored by Dmitry Safonov's avatar Dmitry Safonov Committed by David S. Miller
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net/tcp: Prevent TCP-MD5 with TCP-AO being set



Be as conservative as possible: if there is TCP-MD5 key for a given peer
regardless of L3 interface - don't allow setting TCP-AO key for the same
peer. According to RFC5925, TCP-AO is supposed to replace TCP-MD5 and
there can't be any switch between both on any connected tuple.
Later it can be relaxed, if there's a use, but in the beginning restrict
any intersection.

Note: it's still should be possible to set both TCP-MD5 and TCP-AO keys
on a listening socket for *different* peers.

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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