[PATCH] MKA: Do not enable MACsec transmission if there is any risk of a duplicate SCI

Greg Goblirsch gregg at thinklogical.com
Mon Apr 25 07:25:32 PDT 2022


It is obvious that restarting wpa_supplicant could result in a live peer and a potential peer having the same SCI.

9.4.2 Member identification and message numbers
  The KaY will not enable MACsec transmission if there is any risk of a duplicate SCI 

@@ -683,6 +702,13 @@ ieee802_1x_kay_move_live_peer(struct ieee802_1x_mka_participant *participant,
        if (!peer)
                return NULL;
 
+       if (ieee802_1x_kay_get_live_peer_sci(participant,
+                       &participant->current_peer_sci)) {
+               wpa_printf(MSG_WARNING,
+                       "KaY: live peer and potential peer have the same SCI");
+               return NULL;
+       }
+
        rxsc = ieee802_1x_kay_init_receive_sc(&participant->current_peer_sci);
        if (!rxsc)
                return NULL;



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