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authorDavide Caratti <dcaratti@redhat.com>2016-07-22 15:07:56 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-07-25 10:55:39 -0700
commit2ccbe2cb79f2f74ab739252299b6f9ff27586f2c (patch)
treeb5001d976b145d30c2d90c1de8da6b8b59275594 /include
parentbaedbe55884c003819f5c8c063ec3d2569414296 (diff)
downloadlinux-next-2ccbe2cb79f2f74ab739252299b6f9ff27586f2c.tar.gz
macsec: limit ICV length to 16 octets
IEEE 802.1AE-2006 standard recommends that the ICV element in a MACsec frame should not exceed 16 octets: add MACSEC_STD_ICV_LEN in uapi definitions accordingly, and avoid accepting configurations where the ICV length exceeds the standard value. Leave definition of MACSEC_MAX_ICV_LEN unchanged for backwards compatibility with userspace programs. Fixes: dece8d2b78d1 ("uapi: add MACsec bits") Signed-off-by: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/if_macsec.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_macsec.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_macsec.h
index f7d4831a2cc7..02fc49cb72d8 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/if_macsec.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_macsec.h
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@
#define MACSEC_MIN_ICV_LEN 8
#define MACSEC_MAX_ICV_LEN 32
+/* upper limit for ICV length as recommended by IEEE802.1AE-2006 */
+#define MACSEC_STD_ICV_LEN 16
enum macsec_attrs {
MACSEC_ATTR_UNSPEC,