Re: [PATCH] smb: client: Compare MACs in constant time

Steve French <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.cryptoapi,gmane.linux.kernel.cifs,gmane.network.samba.internals,gmane.linux.kernel.stable
Message-ID <CAH2r5mu+VkO8rSL+CWWDR55aKRLaiAxFp_G5PAfQsssK-Erm-A@mail.gmail.com>
merged into cifs-2.6.git for-next

On Tue, Mar 3, 2026 at 10:24 AM Paulo Alcantara via samba-technical
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Eric Biggers <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > To prevent timing attacks, MAC comparisons need to be constant-time.
> > Replace the memcmp() with the correct function, crypto_memneq().
> >
> > Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  fs/smb/client/smb1encrypt.c   | 3 ++-
> >  fs/smb/client/smb2transport.c | 4 +++-
> >  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> Acked-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) <[email protected]>
>


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Thanks,

Steve
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