[OpenAFS-devel] More checksumming in rx?

Jeffrey E Altman jaltman@auristor.com
Tue, 10 Dec 2019 05:43:43 -0500


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On 12/10/2019 4:47 AM, Harald Barth wrote:
>=20
> If I read ./src/rxkad/crypt_conn.c  correct, checksumming was never tur=
ned on.
>=20
>     /* Do this if packet checksums are ever enabled (below), but
>      * current version just passes zero
>      afs_int32 cksum;
>      cksum =3D ntohl(rx_GetInt32(packet, 1));
>      */
>=20
>     /*
>      * afs_int32 cksum;
>      * cksum =3D htonl(0);
>      * * Future option to add cksum here, but for now we just put 0
>      */
>=20
> I wonder what prevented to do more here and why there is a comment
> "we just put 0" when there is not even that.

The zero is put by the next line

  rx_PutInt32(packet, 1 * sizeof(afs_int32), 0);

> Someone please enlighten me as rx is not quite my bag ;-)

Please get a time machine and speak to IBM developers prior to the AFS
3.3 release.
> This was all triggered by a broken network adapter which did put out
> broken UDP packets including matching (broken) UDP checksum which then
> results in file corruption both in the cleartext (single letter
> changes, for example "the" mutates to "tha") and the crypt case where
> there will be some binary crap (128 bytes?) replacing the real content
> of the file. I'd rather have something on the rx level to prevent this
> happening, so what can be done?

Stop using rxkad.   Proper integrity protection is provided by rxgk
which AuriStorFS sites have deployed for many years now.

Jeffrey Altman


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