linux-stable.git/net/ipv4/syncookies.c, branch linux-3.12.y

tcp: syncookies: reduce mss table to four values

2014-03-14T22:01:53+00:00

commit 086293542b991fb88a2e41ae7b4f82ac65a20e1a upstream.

Halve mss table size to make blind cookie guessing more difficult.
This is sad since the tables were already small, but there
is little alternative except perhaps adding more precise mss information
in the tcp timestamp.  Timestamps are unfortunately not ubiquitous.

Guessing all possible cookie values still has 8-in 2**32 chance.

Reported-by: Jakob Lell 
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

tcp: syncookies: reduce cookie lifetime to 128 seconds

2014-03-14T22:00:54+00:00

commit 8c27bd75f04fb9cb70c69c3cfe24f4e6d8e15906 upstream.

We currently accept cookies that were created less than 4 minutes ago
(ie, cookies with counter delta 0-3).  Combined with the 8 mss table
values, this yields 32 possible values (out of 2**32) that will be valid.

Reducing the lifetime to < 2 minutes halves the guessing chance while
still providing a large enough period.

While at it, get rid of jiffies value -- they overflow too quickly on
32 bit platforms.

getnstimeofday is used to create a counter that increments every 64s.
perf shows getnstimeofday cost is negible compared to sha_transform;
normal tcp initial sequence number generation uses getnstimeofday, too.

Reported-by: Jakob Lell 
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

net: syncookies: export cookie_v4_init_sequence/cookie_v4_check

2013-08-27T22:27:44+00:00

Extract the local TCP stack independant parts of tcp_v4_init_sequence()
and cookie_v4_check() and export them for use by the upcoming SYNPROXY
target.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Tested-by: Martin Topholm 
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer 
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2013-04-23T00:32:51+00:00

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
	drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
	include/net/scm.h
	net/batman-adv/routing.c
	net/ipv4/tcp_input.c

The e{uid,gid} --> {uid,gid} credentials fix conflicted with the
cleanup in net-next to now pass cred structs around.

The be2net driver had a bug fix in 'net' that overlapped with the VLAN
interface changes by Patrick McHardy in net-next.

An IGB conflict existed because in 'net' the build_skb() support was
reverted, and in 'net-next' there was a comment style fix within that
code.

Several batman-adv conflicts were resolved by making sure that all
calls to batadv_is_my_mac() are changed to have a new bat_priv first
argument.

Eric Dumazet's TS ECR fix in TCP in 'net' conflicted with the F-RTO
rewrite in 'net-next', mostly overlapping changes.

Thanks to Stephen Rothwell and Antonio Quartulli for help with several
of these merge resolutions.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: incoming connections might use wrong route under synflood

2013-04-11T20:01:46+00:00

There is a bug in cookie_v4_check (net/ipv4/syncookies.c):
	flowi4_init_output(&fl4, 0, sk->sk_mark, RT_CONN_FLAGS(sk),
			   RT_SCOPE_UNIVERSE, IPPROTO_TCP,
			   inet_sk_flowi_flags(sk),
			   (opt && opt->srr) ? opt->faddr : ireq->rmt_addr,
			   ireq->loc_addr, th->source, th->dest);

Here we do not respect sk->sk_bound_dev_if, therefore wrong dst_entry may be
taken. This dst_entry is used by new socket (get_cookie_sock ->
tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock), so its packets may take the wrong path.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Popov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: Remove TCPCT

2013-03-17T18:35:13+00:00

TCPCT uses option-number 253, reserved for experimental use and should
not be used in production environments.
Further, TCPCT does not fully implement RFC 6013.

As a nice side-effect, removing TCPCT increases TCP's performance for
very short flows:

Doing an apache-benchmark with -c 100 -n 100000, sending HTTP-requests
for files of 1KB size.

before this patch:
	average (among 7 runs) of 20845.5 Requests/Second
after:
	average (among 7 runs) of 21403.6 Requests/Second

Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: make sysctl_tcp_ecn namespace aware

2013-01-07T05:09:56+00:00

As per suggestion from Eric Dumazet this patch makes tcp_ecn sysctl
namespace aware.  The reason behind this patch is to ease the testing
of ecn problems on the internet and allows applications to tune their
own use of ecn.

Cc: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa 
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: better retrans tracking for defer-accept

2012-11-03T18:45:00+00:00

For passive TCP connections using TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT facility,
we incorrectly increment req->retrans each time timeout triggers
while no SYNACK is sent.

SYNACK are not sent for TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT that were established (for
which we received the ACK from client). Only the last SYNACK is sent
so that we can receive again an ACK from client, to move the req into
accept queue. We plan to change this later to avoid the useless
retransmit (and potential problem as this SYNACK could be lost)

TCP_INFO later gives wrong information to user, claiming imaginary
retransmits.

Decouple req->retrans field into two independent fields :

num_retrans : number of retransmit
num_timeout : number of timeouts

num_timeout is the counter that is incremented at each timeout,
regardless of actual SYNACK being sent or not, and used to
compute the exponential timeout.

Introduce inet_rtx_syn_ack() helper to increment num_retrans
only if ->rtx_syn_ack() succeeded.

Use inet_rtx_syn_ack() from tcp_check_req() to increment num_retrans
when we re-send a SYNACK in answer to a (retransmitted) SYN.
Prior to this patch, we were not counting these retransmits.

Change tcp_v[46]_rtx_synack() to increment TCP_MIB_RETRANSSEGS
only if a synack packet was successfully queued.

Reported-by: Yuchung Cheng 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Julian Anastasov 
Cc: Vijay Subramanian 
Cc: Elliott Hughes 
Cc: Neal Cardwell 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: TCP Fast Open Server - support TFO listeners

2012-09-01T00:02:19+00:00

This patch builds on top of the previous patch to add the support
for TFO listeners. This includes -

1. allocating, properly initializing, and managing the per listener
fastopen_queue structure when TFO is enabled

2. changes to the inet_csk_accept code to support TFO. E.g., the
request_sock can no longer be freed upon accept(), not until 3WHS
finishes

3. allowing a TCP_SYN_RECV socket to properly poll() and sendmsg()
if it's a TFO socket

4. properly closing a TFO listener, and a TFO socket before 3WHS
finishes

5. supporting TCP_FASTOPEN socket option

6. modifying tcp_check_req() to use to check a TFO socket as well
as request_sock

7. supporting TCP's TFO cookie option

8. adding a new SYN-ACK retransmit handler to use the timer directly
off the TFO socket rather than the listener socket. Note that TFO
server side will not retransmit anything other than SYN-ACK until
the 3WHS is completed.

The patch also contains an important function
"reqsk_fastopen_remove()" to manage the somewhat complex relation
between a listener, its request_sock, and the corresponding child
socket. See the comment above the function for the detail.

Signed-off-by: H.K. Jerry Chu 
Cc: Yuchung Cheng 
Cc: Neal Cardwell 
Cc: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Tom Herbert 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net-tcp: Fast Open base

2012-07-19T17:55:36+00:00

This patch impelements the common code for both the client and server.

1. TCP Fast Open option processing. Since Fast Open does not have an
   option number assigned by IANA yet, it shares the experiment option
   code 254 by implementing draft-ietf-tcpm-experimental-options
   with a 16 bits magic number 0xF989. This enables global experiments
   without clashing the scarce(2) experimental options available for TCP.

   When the draft status becomes standard (maybe), the client should
   switch to the new option number assigned while the server supports
   both numbers for transistion.

2. The new sysctl tcp_fastopen

3. A place holder init function

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng 
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller