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mac80211: Encrypt "Group addressed privacy" action frames

Message ID 1465969112-2814-1-git-send-email-masashi.honma@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State Changes Requested
Delegated to: Johannes Berg
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Masashi Honma June 15, 2016, 5:38 a.m. UTC
Previously, the action frames to group address was not encrypted. But
[1] "Table 8-38 Category values" indicates "Mesh" and "Multihop" category
action frames should be encrypted (Group addressed privacy == yes). And the
encyption key should be MGTK ([1] 10.13 Group addressed robust management frame
procedures). So this patch modifies the code to make it suitable for spec.

[1] IEEE Std 802.11-2012

Signed-off-by: Masashi Honma <masashi.honma@gmail.com>
---
 net/mac80211/tx.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

Comments

Jouni Malinen June 18, 2016, 9:11 a.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 02:38:32PM +0900, Masashi Honma wrote:
> Previously, the action frames to group address was not encrypted. But
> [1] "Table 8-38 Category values" indicates "Mesh" and "Multihop" category
> action frames should be encrypted (Group addressed privacy == yes). And the
> encyption key should be MGTK ([1] 10.13 Group addressed robust management frame
> procedures). So this patch modifies the code to make it suitable for spec.

>  net/mac80211/tx.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

What about RX side? Shouldn't there be a matching change there to
enforce use of group addressed privacy for the specific Action
categories? This will make devices using fixed implementation not
interoperate with devices using older version, I'd assume, but it looks
like the current use of mesh with RSN is pretty hopelessly broken as far
as no PMF case is concerned at least when using the wpa_supplicant
implementation (sets IGTK incorrectly and ends up using BIP even when
PMF was not enabled), so there does not seem to be any convenient way of
addressing this apart from requiring all devices in the MBSS to get
updated to the fixed versions.

> diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
> +static bool debug_noinline
> +ieee80211_is_group_privacy_action(struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr)

And this helper should likely be in some more generic location so that
it could be shared for TX and RX..
Masashi Honma June 20, 2016, 12:51 a.m. UTC | #2
On 2016年06月18日 18:11, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> What about RX side? Shouldn't there be a matching change there to
> enforce use of group addressed privacy for the specific Action
> categories?

Thank you. Yes, RX side modification is needed.
I was not aware of it because ping test was OK.
Now I recognize it is because MGTK and IGTK is same as you say.

> This will make devices using fixed implementation not
> interoperate with devices using older version, I'd assume, but it looks
> like the current use of mesh with RSN is pretty hopelessly broken as far
> as no PMF case is concerned at least when using the wpa_supplicant
> implementation (sets IGTK incorrectly and ends up using BIP even when
> PMF was not enabled), so there does not seem to be any convenient way of
> addressing this apart from requiring all devices in the MBSS to get
> updated to the fixed versions.
Yes. This patch breaks backward compatibility.
I do not have smart idea to avoid also.
I will create new define like this.
CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH_GROUP_ADDRESSED_PRIVACY


> And this helper should likely be in some more generic location so that 
> it could be shared for TX and RX.. 

Sure.


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Jouni Malinen June 20, 2016, 9:25 p.m. UTC | #3
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 09:51:28AM +0900, Masashi Honma wrote:
> On 2016年06月18日 18:11, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> Yes. This patch breaks backward compatibility.
> I do not have smart idea to avoid also.
> I will create new define like this.
> CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH_GROUP_ADDRESSED_PRIVACY

Do we really want that? Group addressed privacy is what the standard
requires to be used with mesh and if we make it build time configurable,
we'll just end up with two different implementation that will never
interoperate with each other.. I don't really see any better option for
this apart from fixing this and requiring all STAs in a secure mesh to
be updated in synchronized manner. This way it will be a one time issue,
but that won't be there forever.

If something is needed to for temporary backwards compatibility support,
that should be something that can be enabled at runtime (and be disabled
by default). That said, I'm not sure I'd go with that extra complexity
taken into account how badly (i.e., completely incorrectly) the PMF case
was implemented in wpa_supplicant. I'm not planning on adding any
backwards compatibility mode there for due to the previous behavior not
really being good from security view point either (using the same key
with two different algorithms).
Masashi Honma June 21, 2016, 6:16 a.m. UTC | #4
On 2016年06月21日 06:25, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> Do we really want that?

Sorry, I mis-understood your previous massage.
I have thought you required backward compatibility.
Ok, I will remove backward compatibility code.


 > What about RX side?

Previously, MGTK and IGTK was identical key.
Now new wpa_supplicant can provide correct IGTK.
(Because of your great works !)
I have tested with new IGTK, RX side can work without
modification.

I will send new patch.
The patch move ieee80211_is_group_privacy_action()
to appropriate file and fix a bug of skip_hw flag.


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Jouni Malinen June 21, 2016, 5:01 p.m. UTC | #5
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 03:16:22PM +0900, Masashi Honma wrote:
> On 2016年06月21日 06:25, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> > What about RX side?
> 
> Previously, MGTK and IGTK was identical key.
> Now new wpa_supplicant can provide correct IGTK.

> I have tested with new IGTK, RX side can work without
> modification.

Please keep in mind that "working" here means two things:
(1) being able decrypt the frame,
(2) being able to reject the frame if it was not properly protected. It
is that (2) that is unlikely to be covered here..

We actually cover (2) for some cases by "accident" since
ieee80211_rx_h_decrypt() assigns rx->key to rx->sta->gtk[i] if one is
available. I'm not completely sure this is correct since it applies to
management frame as well, but that's the way commit
897bed8b4320774e56f282cdc1cceb4d77442797 ('mac80211: clean up RX key
checks') implemented it (Johannes: Could you please take a look whether
that gtk[] case was really supposed to apply for non-Data frames?).
Interestingly, even on the TX side, we had code that picked tx->key for
these group addressed Action frames, but that got then cleared later..

That said, if rx->sta->gtk[i] is not set for any value of i, we would
not enforce encryption of "group addressed privacy" Action frames as far
as I can tell. This may be a pretty small window since RX MGTK is
supposed to get set immediately for each peer. However, I would not be
surprised if there were indeed a window between adding the STA entry and
marking it authorized and configuring the RX MGTK. And even if this is
not possible, this should really be commented somewhere so that there is
less of a change of accidentally optimizing or cleaning up something
that is needed for this to be protected..

And when operating with PMF enabled, this is clearly broken, i.e., the
RX path accepts BIP protected version of the broadcast Mesh Action frame
while that frame needs to be rejected since it was not encrypted with
CCMP/GCMP.

To cover all these RX cases properly, I'd expect there to be RX path
changes that use ieee80211_is_group_privacy_action() and reject some
cases.. This should like be there in the !ieee80211_has_protected(fc)
case in ieee80211_rx_h_decrypt() before selecting the key and if
ieee80211_is_group_privacy_action() returns true, return RX_DROP_MONITOR
would be needed.
Johannes Berg June 21, 2016, 7:40 p.m. UTC | #6
> We actually cover (2) for some cases by "accident" since
> ieee80211_rx_h_decrypt() assigns rx->key to rx->sta->gtk[i] if one is
> available. I'm not completely sure this is correct since it applies
> to management frame as well, but that's the way commit
> 897bed8b4320774e56f282cdc1cceb4d77442797 ('mac80211: clean up RX key
> checks') implemented it (Johannes: Could you please take a look
> whether that gtk[] case was really supposed to apply for non-Data
> frames?).
> 

Hm, yeah, that's kinda questionable.

AFAICT we still do the right thing since ieee80211_drop_unencrypted()
contains a check for ieee80211_is_data() and we return in this if
branch, so we never get to the TAINTED check or the actual decrypt.

We could try to just drop unencrypted data frames (that aren't control
port protocol) right here, but it might wreak havoc with the reorder
buffer in case it (erroneously) happens.

johannes
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Masashi Honma June 22, 2016, 10:54 a.m. UTC | #7
On 2016年06月22日 02:01, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> Please keep in mind that "working" here means two things:
> (1) being able decrypt the frame,
> (2) being able to reject the frame if it was not properly protected. It
> is that (2) that is unlikely to be covered here..
>
> We actually cover (2) for some cases by "accident" since
> ieee80211_rx_h_decrypt() assigns rx->key to rx->sta->gtk[i] if one is
> available. I'm not completely sure this is correct since it applies to
> management frame as well, but that's the way commit
> 897bed8b4320774e56f282cdc1cceb4d77442797 ('mac80211: clean up RX key
> checks') implemented it (Johannes: Could you please take a look whether
> that gtk[] case was really supposed to apply for non-Data frames?).
> Interestingly, even on the TX side, we had code that picked tx->key for
> these group addressed Action frames, but that got then cleared later..
>
> That said, if rx->sta->gtk[i] is not set for any value of i, we would
> not enforce encryption of "group addressed privacy" Action frames as far
> as I can tell. This may be a pretty small window since RX MGTK is
> supposed to get set immediately for each peer. However, I would not be
> surprised if there were indeed a window between adding the STA entry and
> marking it authorized and configuring the RX MGTK. And even if this is
> not possible, this should really be commented somewhere so that there is
> less of a change of accidentally optimizing or cleaning up something
> that is needed for this to be protected..
>
> And when operating with PMF enabled, this is clearly broken, i.e., the
> RX path accepts BIP protected version of the broadcast Mesh Action frame
> while that frame needs to be rejected since it was not encrypted with
> CCMP/GCMP.
>
> To cover all these RX cases properly, I'd expect there to be RX path
> changes that use ieee80211_is_group_privacy_action() and reject some
> cases.. This should like be there in the !ieee80211_has_protected(fc)
> case in ieee80211_rx_h_decrypt() before selecting the key and if
> ieee80211_is_group_privacy_action() returns true, return RX_DROP_MONITOR
> would be needed.
>
Thank you Jouni and Johannes.

Indeed, received unencrypted Group Addressed Privacy action frame is 
dropped at
below if condition in ieee80211_drop_unencrypted_mgmt().
     /* BIP does not use Protected field, so need to check MMIE */
     if (unlikely(ieee80211_is_multicast_robust_mgmt_frame(rx->skb) &&
              ieee80211_get_mmie_keyidx(rx->skb) < 0)) {
         if (ieee80211_is_deauth(fc) ||
             ieee80211_is_disassoc(fc))
             cfg80211_rx_unprot_mlme_mgmt(rx->sdata->dev,
                              rx->skb->data,
                              rx->skb->len);
         return -EACCES;
     }
Because the frame was not encrypted and does not have MMIE.

And there could be one more case. Group Addressed Privacy action frame 
could have
robustness by MMIC because of previous wrong implementation. The frame could
not be cought by ieee80211_drop_unencrypted_mgmt(). Because the frame 
has MMIE.
So I have added new condition to ieee80211_rx_h_decrypt() by follwing patch.


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Patch

diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index 2030443..80afc47 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -578,6 +578,21 @@  ieee80211_tx_h_check_control_port_protocol(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
 	return TX_CONTINUE;
 }
 
+static bool debug_noinline
+ieee80211_is_group_privacy_action(struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr)
+{
+	struct ieee80211_mgmt *mgmt;
+
+	if (!ieee80211_is_action(hdr->frame_control) ||
+	    !is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1))
+		return false;
+
+	mgmt = (struct ieee80211_mgmt *)hdr;
+
+	return mgmt->u.action.category == WLAN_CATEGORY_MESH_ACTION ||
+		mgmt->u.action.category == WLAN_CATEGORY_MULTIHOP_ACTION;
+}
+
 static ieee80211_tx_result debug_noinline
 ieee80211_tx_h_select_key(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
 {
@@ -590,6 +605,9 @@  ieee80211_tx_h_select_key(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
 	else if (tx->sta &&
 		 (key = rcu_dereference(tx->sta->ptk[tx->sta->ptk_idx])))
 		tx->key = key;
+	else if (ieee80211_is_group_privacy_action(hdr) &&
+		 (key = rcu_dereference(tx->sdata->default_multicast_key)))
+		tx->key = key;
 	else if (ieee80211_is_mgmt(hdr->frame_control) &&
 		 is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1) &&
 		 ieee80211_is_robust_mgmt_frame(tx->skb) &&
@@ -620,6 +638,8 @@  ieee80211_tx_h_select_key(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
 		case WLAN_CIPHER_SUITE_CCMP_256:
 		case WLAN_CIPHER_SUITE_GCMP:
 		case WLAN_CIPHER_SUITE_GCMP_256:
+			if (ieee80211_is_group_privacy_action(hdr))
+				break;
 			if (!ieee80211_is_data_present(hdr->frame_control) &&
 			    !ieee80211_use_mfp(hdr->frame_control, tx->sta,
 					       tx->skb))