Re: [PATCH v16 05/10] tls: split tls_set_sw_offload into init and finalize stages

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tls: split tls_set_sw_offload into init and finalize stages

This splits tls_set_sw_offload() into tls_sw_ctx_init(), which allocates
the SW contexts and sets up the AEAD transform, and tls_sw_ctx_finalize(),
which copies the salt/IV/record sequence into the live cipher context.
tls_set_device_offload_rx() is converted to call the two halves separately.

A couple of questions below.

> diff --git a/net/tls/tls.h b/net/tls/tls.h
> index 60a37bdaaa25..5a6ee1ea00f8 100644
> --- a/net/tls/tls.h
> +++ b/net/tls/tls.h
> @@ -147,6 +147,10 @@ void tls_strp_abort_strp(struct tls_strparser *strp, int err);
>  int init_prot_info(struct tls_prot_info *prot,
>  		   const struct tls_crypto_info *crypto_info,
>  		   const struct tls_cipher_desc *cipher_desc);
> +int tls_sw_ctx_init(struct sock *sk, int tx,
> +		    struct tls_crypto_info *new_crypto_info);
> +void tls_sw_ctx_finalize(struct sock *sk, int tx,
> +			 struct tls_crypto_info *new_crypto_info);

[Severity: Low]
Would it be worth documenting the pairing contract of these two helpers
here?  As written, tls_sw_ctx_finalize() may only be called after a
tls_sw_ctx_init() that returned 0, with the same tx value, the same
new_crypto_info pointer, and an unchanged crypto_info->cipher_type.  Since
finalize() returns void it cannot report a violation, and the tx /
new_crypto_info selection logic is now duplicated in both halves.

>  int tls_set_sw_offload(struct sock *sk, int tx,
>  		       struct tls_crypto_info *new_crypto_info);
>  void tls_update_rx_zc_capable(struct tls_context *tls_ctx);
> diff --git a/net/tls/tls_device.c b/net/tls/tls_device.c
> index bbb1aa733500..cf67e1f6c5f4 100644
> --- a/net/tls/tls_device.c
> +++ b/net/tls/tls_device.c
> @@ -1235,7 +1235,7 @@ int tls_set_device_offload_rx(struct sock *sk, struct tls_context *ctx)
>  	context->resync_nh_reset = 1;
>  
>  	ctx->priv_ctx_rx = context;
> -	rc = tls_set_sw_offload(sk, 0, NULL);
> +	rc = tls_sw_ctx_init(sk, 0, NULL);
>  	if (rc)
>  		goto release_ctx;
>  
> @@ -1249,6 +1249,7 @@ int tls_set_device_offload_rx(struct sock *sk, struct tls_context *ctx)
>  		goto free_sw_resources;
>  
>  	tls_device_attach(ctx, sk, netdev);
> +	tls_sw_ctx_finalize(sk, 0, NULL);

[Severity: Low]
The commit message describes this as separating "cipher context
initialization from key material finalization", but this hunk also changes
the order of operations in tls_set_device_offload_rx().

Before the patch, tls_set_sw_offload(sk, 0, NULL) filled in ctx->rx.iv and
ctx->rx.rec_seq before netdev->tlsdev_ops->tls_dev_add() programmed the NIC
and before tls_device_attach() published the context on tls_device_list and
swapped sk->sk_destruct.  Now ctx->rx stays zeroed across both of those
calls and is only committed afterwards.

The split by itself could have been done with tls_sw_ctx_finalize() invoked
at exactly the point where the old copy happened, so the new ordering looks
like a deliberate choice.  Could the commit message say why finalize() has
to run after tls_dev_add() and tls_device_attach()?

For what it is worth, the window looks harmless at this commit: the whole
function runs under lock_sock() and down_read(&device_offload_lock), the RX
data path is only armed later by tls_sw_strparser_arm(), the RX tls_dev_add()
call is passed &ctx->crypto_recv.info rather than ctx->rx, and no in-tree
tls_dev_add() implementation reads the SW cipher_context.  A note in the
changelog would still help reviewers and anyone backporting this.

>  	up_read(&device_offload_lock);
>  
>  	dev_put(netdev);
> diff --git a/net/tls/tls_sw.c b/net/tls/tls_sw.c
> index 62d46736e24b..63c83247f9a3 100644
> --- a/net/tls/tls_sw.c
> +++ b/net/tls/tls_sw.c

[ ... ]

> @@ -2650,3 +2631,55 @@ int tls_set_sw_offload(struct sock *sk, int tx,
>  out:
>  	return rc;
>  }
> +
> +void tls_sw_ctx_finalize(struct sock *sk, int tx,
> +			 struct tls_crypto_info *new_crypto_info)
> +{
> +	struct tls_crypto_info *crypto_info, *src_crypto_info;
> +	const struct tls_cipher_desc *cipher_desc;
> +	struct tls_context *ctx = tls_get_ctx(sk);
> +	struct cipher_context *cctx;
> +	char *iv, *salt, *rec_seq;
> +
> +	if (tx) {
> +		crypto_info = &ctx->crypto_send.info;
> +		cctx = &ctx->tx;
> +	} else {
> +		crypto_info = &ctx->crypto_recv.info;
> +		cctx = &ctx->rx;
> +	}
> +
> +	src_crypto_info = new_crypto_info ?: crypto_info;
> +	cipher_desc = get_cipher_desc(src_crypto_info->cipher_type);
> +
> +	iv = crypto_info_iv(src_crypto_info, cipher_desc);
> +	salt = crypto_info_salt(src_crypto_info, cipher_desc);
> +	rec_seq = crypto_info_rec_seq(src_crypto_info, cipher_desc);
> +
> +	memcpy(cctx->iv, salt, cipher_desc->salt);
> +	memcpy(cctx->iv + cipher_desc->salt, iv, cipher_desc->iv);
> +	memcpy(cctx->rec_seq, rec_seq, cipher_desc->rec_seq);

[Severity: Low]
Should this repeated get_cipher_desc() lookup be NULL checked?

get_cipher_desc() returns NULL for a cipher_type outside
[TLS_CIPHER_MIN, TLS_CIPHER_MAX], and here the result is dereferenced
straight away by crypto_info_iv() / crypto_info_salt() /
crypto_info_rec_seq() (which read cipher_desc->*_offset) and by
cipher_desc->salt / ->iv / ->rec_seq in the memcpy() calls.

The sibling stage still guards the identical lookup:

net/tls/tls_sw.c:tls_sw_ctx_init() {
	...
	cipher_desc = get_cipher_desc(src_crypto_info->cipher_type);
	if (!cipher_desc) {
		rc = -EINVAL;
		goto free_priv;
	}
	...
}

Today both callers reach finalize() only after an init() that validated the
same cipher_type (tls_set_sw_offload() returns early on error, and
tls_set_device_offload_rx() checks rc from tls_sw_ctx_init()), and
do_tls_setsockopt_conf() rejects unknown cipher_type before that, so this
does not look reachable.  Since the helper is now exported module-wide as
void, though, would re-checking cipher_desc (or at least a comment stating
the assumption) be preferable?

> +
> +	if (new_crypto_info) {
> +		unsafe_memcpy(crypto_info, new_crypto_info,
> +			      cipher_desc->crypto_info,
> +			      /* size was checked in do_tls_setsockopt_conf */);

[Severity: Low]
The retained justification comment names only do_tls_setsockopt_conf(), but
tls_set_device_offload_rx() is now also a caller of this code.  Should the
comment be extended to cover the device path as well?

Separately, finalize() commits crypto_info, the IV and the record sequence
into the live socket context, and calls tls_finish_key_update() for RX,
without any indication that the crypto_aead_setkey() in the init stage
succeeded.  Is the caller expected to guarantee that ordering?

> +		memzero_explicit(new_crypto_info, cipher_desc->crypto_info);
> +
> +		if (!tx)
> +			tls_finish_key_update(sk, ctx);
> +	}
> +}