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authorEthan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>2011-07-22 11:50:26 -0700
committerEthan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>2011-07-22 19:04:13 -0700
commit8e8d5966947dfc2153b60a6b7d2326db49838024 (patch)
tree2d46c5ef7c9124ec3c1f0d2bbfe4d161915d45d5
parenta368bb53d9769ae42042e122775672ac9546e3f9 (diff)
mac-learning: Use random secret in hash function.
The mac-learning 'secret' parameter is intended to prevent an attacker from turning the mac learning table into a linked list by using a known hash function to choose perfectly bad mac entries. However, this parameter was not taken into account in most cases. Found by inspection.
-rw-r--r--lib/mac-learning.c15
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/mac-learning.c b/lib/mac-learning.c
index 4bb9f2a2..5e05885e 100644
--- a/lib/mac-learning.c
+++ b/lib/mac-learning.c
@@ -46,9 +46,10 @@ mac_entry_age(const struct mac_entry *e)
}
static uint32_t
-mac_table_hash(const uint8_t mac[ETH_ADDR_LEN], uint16_t vlan)
+mac_table_hash(const struct mac_learning *ml, const uint8_t mac[ETH_ADDR_LEN],
+ uint16_t vlan)
{
- return hash_bytes(mac, ETH_ADDR_LEN, vlan);
+ return hash_bytes(mac, ETH_ADDR_LEN, vlan ^ ml->secret);
}
static struct mac_entry *
@@ -64,8 +65,7 @@ static tag_type
make_unknown_mac_tag(const struct mac_learning *ml,
const uint8_t mac[ETH_ADDR_LEN], uint16_t vlan)
{
- uint32_t h = hash_int(ml->secret, mac_table_hash(mac, vlan));
- return tag_create_deterministic(h);
+ return tag_create_deterministic(mac_table_hash(ml, mac, vlan));
}
static struct mac_entry *
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ mac_entry_lookup(const struct mac_learning *ml,
{
struct mac_entry *e;
- HMAP_FOR_EACH_WITH_HASH (e, hmap_node, mac_table_hash(mac, vlan),
+ HMAP_FOR_EACH_WITH_HASH (e, hmap_node, mac_table_hash(ml, mac, vlan),
&ml->table) {
if (e->vlan == vlan && eth_addr_equals(e->mac, mac)) {
return e;
@@ -179,13 +179,16 @@ mac_learning_insert(struct mac_learning *ml,
e = mac_entry_lookup(ml, src_mac, vlan);
if (!e) {
+ uint32_t hash = mac_table_hash(ml, src_mac, vlan);
+
if (!list_is_empty(&ml->free)) {
e = mac_entry_from_lru_node(ml->free.next);
} else {
e = mac_entry_from_lru_node(ml->lrus.next);
hmap_remove(&ml->table, &e->hmap_node);
}
- hmap_insert(&ml->table, &e->hmap_node, mac_table_hash(src_mac, vlan));
+
+ hmap_insert(&ml->table, &e->hmap_node, hash);
memcpy(e->mac, src_mac, ETH_ADDR_LEN);
e->vlan = vlan;
e->tag = 0;