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TT: XOR'ing CRC results unsafe

Added by Linus Lüssing almost 6 years ago. Updated almost 6 years ago.

Status:
New
Priority:
Normal
Target version:
-
Start date:
05/10/2018
Due date:
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Description

Currently, the custom CRC caluclation for TT in batman-adv works as follows:

  • Compute the CRC for each entry, including vid and TT sync flags.
  • Then XOR all resulting CRCs

However, while playing with injecting flags to multicast entries we now noticed that XOR'ing CRCs seems to possibly have easy collision issues:

root@Linus-Debian:/mnt/batman-adv-t_x# batctl tg
[B.A.T.M.A.N. adv 2018.1-10-gc0c5f610, MainIF/MAC: ens3/02:32:64:a4:39:c1 (bat0/0a:f0:8e:ca:5e:82 BATMAN_IV)]
   Client             VID Flags Last ttvn     Via        ttvn  (CRC       )
 * 0e:b3:20:0c:05:01   -1 [....] (  2) 02:05:64:a4:39:c2 (  2) (0xdbb13619)
 * 33:33:ff:0c:05:01   -1 [....] (  2) 02:05:64:a4:39:c2 (  2) (0xdbb13619)
   01:00:5e:00:00:01   -1 [....] (  2) 02:01:64:a4:39:c4 (  2) (0xe0acdb32)
   01:00:5e:00:00:01   -1 [....] (  2) 02:84:64:a4:39:c3 (  2) (0xfefb94e8)
 * 01:00:5e:00:00:01   -1 [....] (  2) 02:05:64:a4:39:c2 (  2) (0xdbb13619)
 * 33:33:ff:c8:3a:24   -1 [....] (  2) 02:84:64:a4:39:c3 (  2) (0xfefb94e8)
 * 4a:1d:5e:5c:79:c9   -1 [....] (  2) 02:01:64:a4:39:c4 (  2) (0xe0acdb32)
 * 33:33:ff:5c:79:c9   -1 [....] (  2) 02:01:64:a4:39:c4 (  2) (0xe0acdb32)
 * fe:04:73:c8:3a:24   -1 [....] (  2) 02:84:64:a4:39:c3 (  2) (0xfefb94e8)
   33:33:00:00:00:01   -1 [....] (  2) 02:01:64:a4:39:c4 (  2) (0xe0acdb32)
   33:33:00:00:00:01   -1 [....] (  2) 02:84:64:a4:39:c3 (  2) (0xfefb94e8)
 * 33:33:00:00:00:01   -1 [....] (  2) 02:05:64:a4:39:c2 (  2) (0xdbb13619)
root@Linus-Debian:/mnt/batman-adv-t_x# batctl tg
[B.A.T.M.A.N. adv 2018.1-10-gc0c5f610, MainIF/MAC: ens3/02:32:64:a4:39:c1 (bat0/0a:f0:8e:ca:5e:82 BATMAN_IV)]
   Client             VID Flags Last ttvn     Via        ttvn  (CRC       )
 * 0e:b3:20:0c:05:01   -1 [....] (  2) 02:05:64:a4:39:c2 (  2) (0xdbb13619)
 * 33:33:ff:0c:05:01   -1 [....] (  2) 02:05:64:a4:39:c2 (  2) (0xdbb13619)
   01:00:5e:00:00:01   -1 [.W..] (  4) 02:01:64:a4:39:c4 (  4) (0x7cf72194)
   01:00:5e:00:00:01   -1 [....] (  2) 02:84:64:a4:39:c3 (  2) (0xfefb94e8)
 * 01:00:5e:00:00:01   -1 [....] (  2) 02:05:64:a4:39:c2 (  2) (0xdbb13619)
 * 33:33:ff:c8:3a:24   -1 [....] (  2) 02:84:64:a4:39:c3 (  2) (0xfefb94e8)
 * 4a:1d:5e:5c:79:c9   -1 [....] (  4) 02:01:64:a4:39:c4 (  4) (0x7cf72194)
 * 33:33:ff:5c:79:c9   -1 [.W..] (  4) 02:01:64:a4:39:c4 (  4) (0x7cf72194)
 * fe:04:73:c8:3a:24   -1 [....] (  2) 02:84:64:a4:39:c3 (  2) (0xfefb94e8)
   33:33:00:00:00:01   -1 [.W..] (  4) 02:01:64:a4:39:c4 (  4) (0x7cf72194)
   33:33:00:00:00:01   -1 [....] (  2) 02:84:64:a4:39:c3 (  2) (0xfefb94e8)
 * 33:33:00:00:00:01   -1 [....] (  2) 02:05:64:a4:39:c2 (  2) (0xdbb13619)
root@Linus-Debian:/mnt/batman-adv-t_x# batctl tg
[B.A.T.M.A.N. adv 2018.1-10-gc0c5f610, MainIF/MAC: ens3/02:32:64:a4:39:c1 (bat0/0a:f0:8e:ca:5e:82 BATMAN_IV)]
   Client             VID Flags Last ttvn     Via        ttvn  (CRC       )
 * 0e:b3:20:0c:05:01   -1 [....] (  2) 02:05:64:a4:39:c2 (  2) (0xdbb13619)
 * 33:33:ff:0c:05:01   -1 [....] (  2) 02:05:64:a4:39:c2 (  2) (0xdbb13619)
   01:00:5e:00:00:01   -1 [.W..] (  4) 02:84:64:a4:39:c3 (  4) (0xfefb94e8)
   01:00:5e:00:00:01   -1 [.W..] (  4) 02:01:64:a4:39:c4 (  4) (0x7cf72194)
 * 01:00:5e:00:00:01   -1 [....] (  2) 02:05:64:a4:39:c2 (  2) (0xdbb13619)
 * 33:33:ff:c8:3a:24   -1 [....] (  4) 02:84:64:a4:39:c3 (  4) (0xfefb94e8)
 * 4a:1d:5e:5c:79:c9   -1 [....] (  4) 02:01:64:a4:39:c4 (  4) (0x7cf72194)
 * 33:33:ff:5c:79:c9   -1 [.W..] (  4) 02:01:64:a4:39:c4 (  4) (0x7cf72194)
 * fe:04:73:c8:3a:24   -1 [....] (  4) 02:84:64:a4:39:c3 (  4) (0xfefb94e8)
   33:33:00:00:00:01   -1 [.W..] (  4) 02:84:64:a4:39:c3 (  4) (0xfefb94e8)
   33:33:00:00:00:01   -1 [.W..] (  4) 02:01:64:a4:39:c4 (  4) (0x7cf72194)
 * 33:33:00:00:00:01   -1 [....] (  2) 02:05:64:a4:39:c2 (  2) (0xdbb13619)
root@Linus-Debian:/mnt/batman-adv-t_x#

When the 'W' flag was injected on node ..:c4 on three of its entries, as expected the result was a new CRC (before: 0xe0acdb32, after: 0x7cf72194).

However, when the 'W' flag was injected on node ..:c3 and only on two of its entries, the CRC stayed the same (0xfefb94e8).

It seems that xor'ing two CRC results which both had exactly the same one bit flipped nullifies the change introduced by this bit.

Sample code to verify:

#!/usr/bin/python3

import binascii

a=b"1234" 
b=b"4305" 

crca0=binascii.crc32(a, 0x0)
crcb0=binascii.crc32(b, 0x0)
xor0=crca0 ^ crcb0

print('CRC({:s}, 0x0) ^ CRC({:s}, 0x0) = {:#010x} ^ {:#010x} = {:#010x}'.format(str(a), str(b), crca0, crcb0, xor0))

crca1=binascii.crc32(a, 0x1)
crcb1=binascii.crc32(b, 0x1)
xor1=crca1 ^ crcb1

print('CRC({:s}, 0x1) ^ CRC({:s}, 0x1) = {:#010x} ^ {:#010x} = {:#010x}'.format(str(a), str(b), crca1, crcb1, xor1))

Output:

CRC(b'1234', 0x0) ^ CRC(b'4305', 0x0) = 0x9be3e0a3 ^ 0xf1d519f3 = 0x6a36f950
CRC(b'1234', 0x1) ^ CRC(b'4305', 0x1) = 0x235f87c6 ^ 0x49697e96 = 0x6a36f950

The reason for XOR'ing instead of only CRC'ing back then seems to have been to be able to be independent of the order of TT entries. Note that any fix by changing the checksumming method batman-adv uses for TT will likely not be backwards compatible.

Actions #1

Updated by Antonio Quartulli almost 6 years ago

after searching online, it seems that a widely strategy to compute a hash of a set (=unordered collection of elements) consists in:
  • compute the hash of each elements
  • sort the computed hashes lexicographically
  • concatenate the hashes in a "non-ambiguous" way to form a new string
  • hash the resulting string.

The hash obtained after the last step is the signature/hash of the set.

Unfortunately this cannot be done on-the-fly while traversing the TT table, but requires to store all the hashes of the various elements first.

There seems to be a paper describing how to compute the hash of a set with constant memory1, but I am not sure there is an implementation available to take inspiration from.

[1]https://people.csail.mit.edu/devadas/pubs/mhashes.pdf

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