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<title>crypto: authenc - fix parsing key with misaligned rta_len</title>
<updated>2019-01-26T08:42:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
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<published>2018-12-17T07:23:22+00:00</published>
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commit 8f9c469348487844328e162db57112f7d347c49f upstream.

Keys for "authenc" AEADs are formatted as an rtattr containing a 4-byte
'enckeylen', followed by an authentication key and an encryption key.
crypto_authenc_extractkeys() parses the key to find the inner keys.

However, it fails to consider the case where the rtattr's payload is
longer than 4 bytes but not 4-byte aligned, and where the key ends
before the next 4-byte aligned boundary.  In this case, 'keylen -=
RTA_ALIGN(rta-&gt;rta_len);' underflows to a value near UINT_MAX.  This
causes a buffer overread and crash during crypto_ahash_setkey().

Fix it by restricting the rtattr payload to the expected size.

Reproducer using AF_ALG:

	#include &lt;linux/if_alg.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/rtnetlink.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/socket.h&gt;

	int main()
	{
		int fd;
		struct sockaddr_alg addr = {
			.salg_type = "aead",
			.salg_name = "authenc(hmac(sha256),cbc(aes))",
		};
		struct {
			struct rtattr attr;
			__be32 enckeylen;
			char keys[1];
		} __attribute__((packed)) key = {
			.attr.rta_len = sizeof(key),
			.attr.rta_type = 1 /* CRYPTO_AUTHENC_KEYA_PARAM */,
		};

		fd = socket(AF_ALG, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0);
		bind(fd, (void *)&amp;addr, sizeof(addr));
		setsockopt(fd, SOL_ALG, ALG_SET_KEY, &amp;key, sizeof(key));
	}

It caused:

	BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff88007ffdc000
	PGD 2e01067 P4D 2e01067 PUD 2e04067 PMD 2e05067 PTE 0
	Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
	CPU: 0 PID: 883 Comm: authenc Not tainted 4.20.0-rc1-00108-g00c9fe37a7f27 #13
	Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-20181126_142135-anatol 04/01/2014
	RIP: 0010:sha256_ni_transform+0xb3/0x330 arch/x86/crypto/sha256_ni_asm.S:155
	[...]
	Call Trace:
	 sha256_ni_finup+0x10/0x20 arch/x86/crypto/sha256_ssse3_glue.c:321
	 crypto_shash_finup+0x1a/0x30 crypto/shash.c:178
	 shash_digest_unaligned+0x45/0x60 crypto/shash.c:186
	 crypto_shash_digest+0x24/0x40 crypto/shash.c:202
	 hmac_setkey+0x135/0x1e0 crypto/hmac.c:66
	 crypto_shash_setkey+0x2b/0xb0 crypto/shash.c:66
	 shash_async_setkey+0x10/0x20 crypto/shash.c:223
	 crypto_ahash_setkey+0x2d/0xa0 crypto/ahash.c:202
	 crypto_authenc_setkey+0x68/0x100 crypto/authenc.c:96
	 crypto_aead_setkey+0x2a/0xc0 crypto/aead.c:62
	 aead_setkey+0xc/0x10 crypto/algif_aead.c:526
	 alg_setkey crypto/af_alg.c:223 [inline]
	 alg_setsockopt+0xfe/0x130 crypto/af_alg.c:256
	 __sys_setsockopt+0x6d/0xd0 net/socket.c:1902
	 __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:1913 [inline]
	 __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:1910 [inline]
	 __x64_sys_setsockopt+0x1f/0x30 net/socket.c:1910
	 do_syscall_64+0x4a/0x180 arch/x86/entry/common.c:290
	 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

Fixes: e236d4a89a2f ("[CRYPTO] authenc: Move enckeylen into key itself")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v2.6.25+
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 8f9c469348487844328e162db57112f7d347c49f upstream.

Keys for "authenc" AEADs are formatted as an rtattr containing a 4-byte
'enckeylen', followed by an authentication key and an encryption key.
crypto_authenc_extractkeys() parses the key to find the inner keys.

However, it fails to consider the case where the rtattr's payload is
longer than 4 bytes but not 4-byte aligned, and where the key ends
before the next 4-byte aligned boundary.  In this case, 'keylen -=
RTA_ALIGN(rta-&gt;rta_len);' underflows to a value near UINT_MAX.  This
causes a buffer overread and crash during crypto_ahash_setkey().

Fix it by restricting the rtattr payload to the expected size.

Reproducer using AF_ALG:

	#include &lt;linux/if_alg.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/rtnetlink.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/socket.h&gt;

	int main()
	{
		int fd;
		struct sockaddr_alg addr = {
			.salg_type = "aead",
			.salg_name = "authenc(hmac(sha256),cbc(aes))",
		};
		struct {
			struct rtattr attr;
			__be32 enckeylen;
			char keys[1];
		} __attribute__((packed)) key = {
			.attr.rta_len = sizeof(key),
			.attr.rta_type = 1 /* CRYPTO_AUTHENC_KEYA_PARAM */,
		};

		fd = socket(AF_ALG, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0);
		bind(fd, (void *)&amp;addr, sizeof(addr));
		setsockopt(fd, SOL_ALG, ALG_SET_KEY, &amp;key, sizeof(key));
	}

It caused:

	BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff88007ffdc000
	PGD 2e01067 P4D 2e01067 PUD 2e04067 PMD 2e05067 PTE 0
	Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
	CPU: 0 PID: 883 Comm: authenc Not tainted 4.20.0-rc1-00108-g00c9fe37a7f27 #13
	Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-20181126_142135-anatol 04/01/2014
	RIP: 0010:sha256_ni_transform+0xb3/0x330 arch/x86/crypto/sha256_ni_asm.S:155
	[...]
	Call Trace:
	 sha256_ni_finup+0x10/0x20 arch/x86/crypto/sha256_ssse3_glue.c:321
	 crypto_shash_finup+0x1a/0x30 crypto/shash.c:178
	 shash_digest_unaligned+0x45/0x60 crypto/shash.c:186
	 crypto_shash_digest+0x24/0x40 crypto/shash.c:202
	 hmac_setkey+0x135/0x1e0 crypto/hmac.c:66
	 crypto_shash_setkey+0x2b/0xb0 crypto/shash.c:66
	 shash_async_setkey+0x10/0x20 crypto/shash.c:223
	 crypto_ahash_setkey+0x2d/0xa0 crypto/ahash.c:202
	 crypto_authenc_setkey+0x68/0x100 crypto/authenc.c:96
	 crypto_aead_setkey+0x2a/0xc0 crypto/aead.c:62
	 aead_setkey+0xc/0x10 crypto/algif_aead.c:526
	 alg_setkey crypto/af_alg.c:223 [inline]
	 alg_setsockopt+0xfe/0x130 crypto/af_alg.c:256
	 __sys_setsockopt+0x6d/0xd0 net/socket.c:1902
	 __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:1913 [inline]
	 __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:1910 [inline]
	 __x64_sys_setsockopt+0x1f/0x30 net/socket.c:1910
	 do_syscall_64+0x4a/0x180 arch/x86/entry/common.c:290
	 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

Fixes: e236d4a89a2f ("[CRYPTO] authenc: Move enckeylen into key itself")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v2.6.25+
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>crypto: authenc - don't leak pointers to authenc keys</title>
<updated>2018-08-06T14:24:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tudor-Dan Ambarus</name>
<email>tudor.ambarus@microchip.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-03T06:39:00+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ad2fdcdf75d169e7a5aec6c7cb421c0bec8ec711 ]

In crypto_authenc_setkey we save pointers to the authenc keys in
a local variable of type struct crypto_authenc_keys and we don't
zeroize it after use. Fix this and don't leak pointers to the
authenc keys.

Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus &lt;tudor.ambarus@microchip.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ad2fdcdf75d169e7a5aec6c7cb421c0bec8ec711 ]

In crypto_authenc_setkey we save pointers to the authenc keys in
a local variable of type struct crypto_authenc_keys and we don't
zeroize it after use. Fix this and don't leak pointers to the
authenc keys.

Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus &lt;tudor.ambarus@microchip.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>crypto: aead - Remove CRYPTO_ALG_AEAD_NEW flag</title>
<updated>2015-08-17T08:53:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-13T09:29:06+00:00</published>
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This patch removes the CRYPTO_ALG_AEAD_NEW flag now that everyone
has been converted.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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This patch removes the CRYPTO_ALG_AEAD_NEW flag now that everyone
has been converted.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>crypto: authenc - Convert to new AEAD interface</title>
<updated>2015-08-04T12:45:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-30T09:53:16+00:00</published>
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This patch converts authenc to the new AEAD interface.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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This patch converts authenc to the new AEAD interface.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>crypto: authenc - Use crypto_aead_set_reqsize helper</title>
<updated>2015-05-13T02:31:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-11T09:47:53+00:00</published>
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This patch uses the crypto_aead_set_reqsize helper to avoid directly
touching the internals of aead.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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This patch uses the crypto_aead_set_reqsize helper to avoid directly
touching the internals of aead.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>crypto: authenc - Include internal/aead.h</title>
<updated>2015-05-13T02:31:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-11T09:47:41+00:00</published>
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All AEAD implementations must include internal/aead.h in order
to access required helpers.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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All AEAD implementations must include internal/aead.h in order
to access required helpers.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>crypto: include crypto- module prefix in template</title>
<updated>2014-11-26T12:06:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-25T00:32:38+00:00</published>
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This adds the module loading prefix "crypto-" to the template lookup
as well.

For example, attempting to load 'vfat(blowfish)' via AF_ALG now correctly
includes the "crypto-" prefix at every level, correctly rejecting "vfat":

	net-pf-38
	algif-hash
	crypto-vfat(blowfish)
	crypto-vfat(blowfish)-all
	crypto-vfat

Reported-by: Mathias Krause &lt;minipli@googlemail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mathias Krause &lt;minipli@googlemail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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This adds the module loading prefix "crypto-" to the template lookup
as well.

For example, attempting to load 'vfat(blowfish)' via AF_ALG now correctly
includes the "crypto-" prefix at every level, correctly rejecting "vfat":

	net-pf-38
	algif-hash
	crypto-vfat(blowfish)
	crypto-vfat(blowfish)-all
	crypto-vfat

Reported-by: Mathias Krause &lt;minipli@googlemail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mathias Krause &lt;minipli@googlemail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>crypto: authenc - Find proper IV address in ablkcipher callback</title>
<updated>2013-11-28T14:16:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Lendacky</name>
<email>thomas.lendacky@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-12T17:46:04+00:00</published>
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When performing an asynchronous ablkcipher operation the authenc
completion callback routine is invoked, but it does not locate and use
the proper IV.

The callback routine, crypto_authenc_encrypt_done, is updated to use
the same method of calculating the address of the IV as is done in
crypto_authenc_encrypt function which sets up the callback.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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When performing an asynchronous ablkcipher operation the authenc
completion callback routine is invoked, but it does not locate and use
the proper IV.

The callback routine, crypto_authenc_encrypt_done, is updated to use
the same method of calculating the address of the IV as is done in
crypto_authenc_encrypt function which sets up the callback.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>crypto: authenc - Export key parsing helper function</title>
<updated>2013-10-16T12:56:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mathias Krause</name>
<email>mathias.krause@secunet.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-15T11:49:30+00:00</published>
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AEAD key parsing is duplicated to multiple places in the kernel. Add a
common helper function to consolidate that functionality.

Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause &lt;mathias.krause@secunet.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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AEAD key parsing is duplicated to multiple places in the kernel. Add a
common helper function to consolidate that functionality.

Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause &lt;mathias.krause@secunet.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>crypto: crypto_memneq - add equality testing of memory regions w/o timing leaks</title>
<updated>2013-10-07T06:17:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Yonan</name>
<email>james@openvpn.net</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-26T08:20:39+00:00</published>
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When comparing MAC hashes, AEAD authentication tags, or other hash
values in the context of authentication or integrity checking, it
is important not to leak timing information to a potential attacker,
i.e. when communication happens over a network.

Bytewise memory comparisons (such as memcmp) are usually optimized so
that they return a nonzero value as soon as a mismatch is found. E.g,
on x86_64/i5 for 512 bytes this can be ~50 cyc for a full mismatch
and up to ~850 cyc for a full match (cold). This early-return behavior
can leak timing information as a side channel, allowing an attacker to
iteratively guess the correct result.

This patch adds a new method crypto_memneq ("memory not equal to each
other") to the crypto API that compares memory areas of the same length
in roughly "constant time" (cache misses could change the timing, but
since they don't reveal information about the content of the strings
being compared, they are effectively benign). Iow, best and worst case
behaviour take the same amount of time to complete (in contrast to
memcmp).

Note that crypto_memneq (unlike memcmp) can only be used to test for
equality or inequality, NOT for lexicographical order. This, however,
is not an issue for its use-cases within the crypto API.

We tried to locate all of the places in the crypto API where memcmp was
being used for authentication or integrity checking, and convert them
over to crypto_memneq.

crypto_memneq is declared noinline, placed in its own source file,
and compiled with optimizations that might increase code size disabled
("Os") because a smart compiler (or LTO) might notice that the return
value is always compared against zero/nonzero, and might then
reintroduce the same early-return optimization that we are trying to
avoid.

Using #pragma or __attribute__ optimization annotations of the code
for disabling optimization was avoided as it seems to be considered
broken or unmaintained for long time in GCC [1]. Therefore, we work
around that by specifying the compile flag for memneq.o directly in
the Makefile. We found that this seems to be most appropriate.

As we use ("Os"), this patch also provides a loop-free "fast-path" for
frequently used 16 byte digests. Similarly to kernel library string
functions, leave an option for future even further optimized architecture
specific assembler implementations.

This was a joint work of James Yonan and Daniel Borkmann. Also thanks
for feedback from Florian Weimer on this and earlier proposals [2].

  [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2012-07/msg00211.html
  [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/10/131

Signed-off-by: James Yonan &lt;james@openvpn.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Weimer &lt;fw@deneb.enyo.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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When comparing MAC hashes, AEAD authentication tags, or other hash
values in the context of authentication or integrity checking, it
is important not to leak timing information to a potential attacker,
i.e. when communication happens over a network.

Bytewise memory comparisons (such as memcmp) are usually optimized so
that they return a nonzero value as soon as a mismatch is found. E.g,
on x86_64/i5 for 512 bytes this can be ~50 cyc for a full mismatch
and up to ~850 cyc for a full match (cold). This early-return behavior
can leak timing information as a side channel, allowing an attacker to
iteratively guess the correct result.

This patch adds a new method crypto_memneq ("memory not equal to each
other") to the crypto API that compares memory areas of the same length
in roughly "constant time" (cache misses could change the timing, but
since they don't reveal information about the content of the strings
being compared, they are effectively benign). Iow, best and worst case
behaviour take the same amount of time to complete (in contrast to
memcmp).

Note that crypto_memneq (unlike memcmp) can only be used to test for
equality or inequality, NOT for lexicographical order. This, however,
is not an issue for its use-cases within the crypto API.

We tried to locate all of the places in the crypto API where memcmp was
being used for authentication or integrity checking, and convert them
over to crypto_memneq.

crypto_memneq is declared noinline, placed in its own source file,
and compiled with optimizations that might increase code size disabled
("Os") because a smart compiler (or LTO) might notice that the return
value is always compared against zero/nonzero, and might then
reintroduce the same early-return optimization that we are trying to
avoid.

Using #pragma or __attribute__ optimization annotations of the code
for disabling optimization was avoided as it seems to be considered
broken or unmaintained for long time in GCC [1]. Therefore, we work
around that by specifying the compile flag for memneq.o directly in
the Makefile. We found that this seems to be most appropriate.

As we use ("Os"), this patch also provides a loop-free "fast-path" for
frequently used 16 byte digests. Similarly to kernel library string
functions, leave an option for future even further optimized architecture
specific assembler implementations.

This was a joint work of James Yonan and Daniel Borkmann. Also thanks
for feedback from Florian Weimer on this and earlier proposals [2].

  [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2012-07/msg00211.html
  [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/10/131

Signed-off-by: James Yonan &lt;james@openvpn.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Weimer &lt;fw@deneb.enyo.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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