The below patch has simplified INITIAL padding on emission. Now,
qc_prep_pkts() is responsible to activate padding for this case, and
there is no more special case in qc_do_build_pkt() needed.
commit 8bc339a6ad
BUG/MAJOR: quic: fix INITIAL padding with probing packet only
However, qc_do_build_pkt() may still activate padding on its own, to
ensure that a packet is big enough so that header protection decryption
can be performed by the peer. HP decryption is performed by extracting a
sample from the ciphered packet, starting 4 bytes after PN offset.
Sample length is 16 bytes as defined by TLS algos used by QUIC. Thus, a
QUIC sender must ensures that length of packet number plus payload
fields to be at least 4 bytes long. This is enough given that each
packet is completed by a 16 bytes AEAD tag which can be part of the HP
sample.
This patch simplifies qc_do_build_pkt() by centralizing padding for this
case in a single location. This is performed at the end of the function
after payload is completed. The code is thus simpler.
This is not a bug. However, it may be interesting to backport this patch
up to 2.6, as qc_do_build_pkt() is a tedious function, in particular
when dealing with padding generation, thus it may benefit greatly from
simplification.
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