tipc: add automatic session key exchange

With support from the master key option in the previous commit, it
becomes easy to make frequent updates/exchanges of session keys between
authenticated cluster nodes.
Basically, there are two situations where the key exchange will take in
place:

- When a new node joins the cluster (with the master key), it will need
  to get its peer's TX key, so that be able to decrypt further messages
  from that peer.

- When a new session key is generated (by either user manual setting or
  later automatic rekeying feature), the key will be distributed to all
  peer nodes in the cluster.

A key to be exchanged is encapsulated in the data part of a 'MSG_CRYPTO
/KEY_DISTR_MSG' TIPC v2 message, then xmit-ed as usual and encrypted by
using the master key before sending out. Upon receipt of the message it
will be decrypted in the same way as regular messages, then attached as
the sender's RX key in the receiver node.

In this way, the key exchange is reliable by the link layer, as well as
security, integrity and authenticity by the crypto layer.

Also, the forward security will be easily achieved by user changing the
master key actively but this should not be required very frequently.

The key exchange feature is independent on the presence of a master key
Note however that the master key still is needed for new nodes to be
able to join the cluster. It is also optional, and can be turned off/on
via the sysfs: 'net/tipc/key_exchange_enabled' [default 1: enabled].

Backward compatibility is guaranteed because for nodes that do not have
master key support, key exchange using master key ie. tx_key = 0 if any
will be shortly discarded at the message validation step. In other
words, the key exchange feature will be automatically disabled to those
nodes.

v2: fix the "implicit declaration of function 'tipc_crypto_key_flush'"
error in node.c. The function only exists when built with the TIPC
"CONFIG_TIPC_CRYPTO" option.

v3: use 'info->extack' for a message emitted due to netlink operations
instead (- David's comment).

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tuong Lien <tuong.t.lien@dektech.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/tipc/crypto.h b/net/tipc/crypto.h
index 643b55077112..b2a9c9b90684 100644
--- a/net/tipc/crypto.h
+++ b/net/tipc/crypto.h
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ enum {
 };
 
 extern int sysctl_tipc_max_tfms __read_mostly;
+extern int sysctl_tipc_key_exchange_enabled __read_mostly;
 
 /**
  * TIPC encryption message format:
@@ -167,8 +168,31 @@ int tipc_crypto_rcv(struct net *net, struct tipc_crypto *rx,
 int tipc_crypto_key_init(struct tipc_crypto *c, struct tipc_aead_key *ukey,
 			 u8 mode, bool master_key);
 void tipc_crypto_key_flush(struct tipc_crypto *c);
+int tipc_crypto_key_distr(struct tipc_crypto *tx, u8 key,
+			  struct tipc_node *dest);
+void tipc_crypto_msg_rcv(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb);
 int tipc_aead_key_validate(struct tipc_aead_key *ukey, struct genl_info *info);
 bool tipc_ehdr_validate(struct sk_buff *skb);
 
+static inline u32 msg_key_gen(struct tipc_msg *m)
+{
+	return msg_bits(m, 4, 16, 0xffff);
+}
+
+static inline void msg_set_key_gen(struct tipc_msg *m, u32 gen)
+{
+	msg_set_bits(m, 4, 16, 0xffff, gen);
+}
+
+static inline u32 msg_key_mode(struct tipc_msg *m)
+{
+	return msg_bits(m, 4, 0, 0xf);
+}
+
+static inline void msg_set_key_mode(struct tipc_msg *m, u32 mode)
+{
+	msg_set_bits(m, 4, 0, 0xf, mode);
+}
+
 #endif /* _TIPC_CRYPTO_H */
 #endif