[PATCH net-next] rxrpc: Fix return from none_validate_challenge()

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Tue May 27 08:01:43 PDT 2025


Fix the return value of none_validate_challenge() to be explicitly true
(which indicates the source packet should simply be discarded) rather than
implicitly true (because rxrpc_abort_conn() always returns -EPROTO which
gets converted to true).

Note that this change doesn't change the behaviour of the code (which is
correct by accident) and, in any case, we *shouldn't* get a CHALLENGE
packet to an rxnull connection (ie. no security).

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at linaro.org>
Closes: https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-afs/2025-April/009738.html
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne at auristor.com>
cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
cc: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>
cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni at redhat.com>
cc: Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs at lists.infradead.org
cc: netdev at vger.kernel.org
---
 net/rxrpc/insecure.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/rxrpc/insecure.c b/net/rxrpc/insecure.c
index 1f7c136d6d0e..0a260df45d25 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/insecure.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/insecure.c
@@ -45,8 +45,9 @@ static void none_free_call_crypto(struct rxrpc_call *call)
 static bool none_validate_challenge(struct rxrpc_connection *conn,
 				    struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
-	return rxrpc_abort_conn(conn, skb, RX_PROTOCOL_ERROR, -EPROTO,
-				rxrpc_eproto_rxnull_challenge);
+	rxrpc_abort_conn(conn, skb, RX_PROTOCOL_ERROR, -EPROTO,
+			 rxrpc_eproto_rxnull_challenge);
+	return true;
 }
 
 static int none_sendmsg_respond_to_challenge(struct sk_buff *challenge,




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