[PATCH] nvmet-auth: Do not print DH-HMAC-CHAP secrets

Hannes Reinecke hare at kernel.org
Thu Apr 30 06:22:32 PDT 2026


>From a security standpoint we should not allow to print out the DH-HMAC-CHAP
secrets, but at the same time having them is useful for debugging
authentication failures.
So add a Kconfig option NVME_TARGET_AUTH_DEBUG to only enable debugging
if explictly requested at build time.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at kernel.org>
---
 drivers/nvme/target/Kconfig |  9 +++++++++
 drivers/nvme/target/auth.c  | 13 ++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/Kconfig b/drivers/nvme/target/Kconfig
index 285a48b289c8..8bb1e38fdab4 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/Kconfig
@@ -125,6 +125,15 @@ config NVME_TARGET_AUTH
 
 	  If unsure, say N.
 
+config NVME_TARGET_AUTH_DEBUG
+	bool "NVMe over Fabrics In-band Authentication debug messages"
+	depends on NVME_TARGET_AUTH
+	help
+	  This enables additional debug messages including the generated
+	  DH-HMAC-CHAP secrets to help debugging authentication failures.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
 config NVME_TARGET_PCI_EPF
 	tristate "NVMe PCI Endpoint Function target support"
 	depends on NVME_TARGET && PCI_ENDPOINT
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/auth.c b/drivers/nvme/target/auth.c
index 9a2eccdc8b13..edb9627d97b0 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/auth.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/auth.c
@@ -144,7 +144,6 @@ u8 nvmet_setup_auth(struct nvmet_ctrl *ctrl, struct nvmet_sq *sq, bool reset)
 		goto out_unlock;
 
 	list_for_each_entry(p, &ctrl->subsys->hosts, entry) {
-		pr_debug("check %s\n", nvmet_host_name(p->host));
 		if (strcmp(nvmet_host_name(p->host), ctrl->hostnqn))
 			continue;
 		host = p->host;
@@ -189,11 +188,12 @@ u8 nvmet_setup_auth(struct nvmet_ctrl *ctrl, struct nvmet_sq *sq, bool reset)
 		ctrl->host_key = NULL;
 		goto out_free_hash;
 	}
+#ifdef CONFIG_NVME_TARGET_AUTH_DEBUG
 	pr_debug("%s: using hash %s key %*ph\n", __func__,
 		 ctrl->host_key->hash > 0 ?
 		 nvme_auth_hmac_name(ctrl->host_key->hash) : "none",
 		 (int)ctrl->host_key->len, ctrl->host_key->key);
-
+#endif
 	nvme_auth_free_key(ctrl->ctrl_key);
 	if (!host->dhchap_ctrl_secret) {
 		ctrl->ctrl_key = NULL;
@@ -207,11 +207,12 @@ u8 nvmet_setup_auth(struct nvmet_ctrl *ctrl, struct nvmet_sq *sq, bool reset)
 		ctrl->ctrl_key = NULL;
 		goto out_free_hash;
 	}
+#ifdef CONFIG_NVME_TARGET_AUTH_DEBUG
 	pr_debug("%s: using ctrl hash %s key %*ph\n", __func__,
 		 ctrl->ctrl_key->hash > 0 ?
 		 nvme_auth_hmac_name(ctrl->ctrl_key->hash) : "none",
 		 (int)ctrl->ctrl_key->len, ctrl->ctrl_key->key);
-
+#endif
 out_free_hash:
 	if (ret) {
 		if (ctrl->host_key) {
@@ -317,7 +318,6 @@ int nvmet_auth_host_hash(struct nvmet_req *req, u8 *response,
 		if (ret)
 			goto out_free_challenge;
 	}
-
 	pr_debug("ctrl %d qid %d host response seq %u transaction %d\n",
 		 ctrl->cntlid, req->sq->qid, req->sq->dhchap_s1,
 		 req->sq->dhchap_tid);
@@ -434,8 +434,10 @@ int nvmet_auth_ctrl_exponential(struct nvmet_req *req,
 		ret = -EINVAL;
 	} else {
 		memcpy(buf, ctrl->dh_key, buf_size);
+#ifdef CONFIG_NVME_TARGET_AUTH_DEBUG
 		pr_debug("%s: ctrl %d public key %*ph\n", __func__,
 			 ctrl->cntlid, (int)buf_size, buf);
+#endif
 	}
 
 	return ret;
@@ -458,11 +460,12 @@ int nvmet_auth_ctrl_sesskey(struct nvmet_req *req,
 					ctrl->shash_id);
 	if (ret)
 		pr_debug("failed to compute session key, err %d\n", ret);
+#ifdef CONFIG_NVME_TARGET_AUTH_DEBUG
 	else
 		pr_debug("%s: session key %*ph\n", __func__,
 			 (int)req->sq->dhchap_skey_len,
 			 req->sq->dhchap_skey);
-
+#endif
 	return ret;
 }
 
-- 
2.51.0




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