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<title>net: change accept_ra_min_rtr_lft to affect all RA lifetimes</title>
<updated>2023-07-28T20:30:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick Rohr</name>
<email>prohr@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-26T23:07:01+00:00</published>
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accept_ra_min_rtr_lft only considered the lifetime of the default route
and discarded entire RAs accordingly.

This change renames accept_ra_min_rtr_lft to accept_ra_min_lft, and
applies the value to individual RA sections; in particular, router
lifetime, PIO preferred lifetime, and RIO lifetime. If any of those
lifetimes are lower than the configured value, the specific RA section
is ignored.

In order for the sysctl to be useful to Android, it should really apply
to all lifetimes in the RA, since that is what determines the minimum
frequency at which RAs must be processed by the kernel. Android uses
hardware offloads to drop RAs for a fraction of the minimum of all
lifetimes present in the RA (some networks have very frequent RAs (5s)
with high lifetimes (2h)). Despite this, we have encountered networks
that set the router lifetime to 30s which results in very frequent CPU
wakeups. Instead of disabling IPv6 (and dropping IPv6 ethertype in the
WiFi firmware) entirely on such networks, it seems better to ignore the
misconfigured routers while still processing RAs from other IPv6 routers
on the same network (i.e. to support IoT applications).

The previous implementation dropped the entire RA based on router
lifetime. This turned out to be hard to expand to the other lifetimes
present in the RA in a consistent manner; dropping the entire RA based
on RIO/PIO lifetimes would essentially require parsing the whole thing
twice.

Fixes: 1671bcfd76fd ("net: add sysctl accept_ra_min_rtr_lft")
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti &lt;lorenzo@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick Rohr &lt;prohr@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maciej Żenczykowski &lt;maze@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230726230701.919212-1-prohr@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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accept_ra_min_rtr_lft only considered the lifetime of the default route
and discarded entire RAs accordingly.

This change renames accept_ra_min_rtr_lft to accept_ra_min_lft, and
applies the value to individual RA sections; in particular, router
lifetime, PIO preferred lifetime, and RIO lifetime. If any of those
lifetimes are lower than the configured value, the specific RA section
is ignored.

In order for the sysctl to be useful to Android, it should really apply
to all lifetimes in the RA, since that is what determines the minimum
frequency at which RAs must be processed by the kernel. Android uses
hardware offloads to drop RAs for a fraction of the minimum of all
lifetimes present in the RA (some networks have very frequent RAs (5s)
with high lifetimes (2h)). Despite this, we have encountered networks
that set the router lifetime to 30s which results in very frequent CPU
wakeups. Instead of disabling IPv6 (and dropping IPv6 ethertype in the
WiFi firmware) entirely on such networks, it seems better to ignore the
misconfigured routers while still processing RAs from other IPv6 routers
on the same network (i.e. to support IoT applications).

The previous implementation dropped the entire RA based on router
lifetime. This turned out to be hard to expand to the other lifetimes
present in the RA in a consistent manner; dropping the entire RA based
on RIO/PIO lifetimes would essentially require parsing the whole thing
twice.

Fixes: 1671bcfd76fd ("net: add sysctl accept_ra_min_rtr_lft")
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti &lt;lorenzo@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Patrick Rohr &lt;prohr@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maciej Żenczykowski &lt;maze@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230726230701.919212-1-prohr@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: add sysctl accept_ra_min_rtr_lft</title>
<updated>2023-07-23T10:51:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick Rohr</name>
<email>prohr@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-19T14:52:13+00:00</published>
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This change adds a new sysctl accept_ra_min_rtr_lft to specify the
minimum acceptable router lifetime in an RA. If the received RA router
lifetime is less than the configured value (and not 0), the RA is
ignored.
This is useful for mobile devices, whose battery life can be impacted
by networks that configure RAs with a short lifetime. On such networks,
the device should never gain IPv6 provisioning and should attempt to
drop RAs via hardware offload, if available.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Rohr &lt;prohr@google.com&gt;
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski &lt;maze@google.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti &lt;lorenzo@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This change adds a new sysctl accept_ra_min_rtr_lft to specify the
minimum acceptable router lifetime in an RA. If the received RA router
lifetime is less than the configured value (and not 0), the RA is
ignored.
This is useful for mobile devices, whose battery life can be impacted
by networks that configure RAs with a short lifetime. On such networks,
the device should never gain IPv6 provisioning and should attempt to
drop RAs via hardware offload, if available.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Rohr &lt;prohr@google.com&gt;
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski &lt;maze@google.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti &lt;lorenzo@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tcp: get rid of sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale</title>
<updated>2023-07-19T01:41:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-17T15:29:17+00:00</published>
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With modern NIC drivers shifting to full page allocations per
received frame, we face the following issue:

TCP has one per-netns sysctl used to tweak how to translate
a memory use into an expected payload (RWIN), in RX path.

tcp_win_from_space() implementation is limited to few cases.

For hosts dealing with various MSS, we either under estimate
or over estimate the RWIN we send to the remote peers.

For instance with the default sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale value,
we expect to store 50% of payload per allocated chunk of memory.

For the typical use of MTU=1500 traffic, and order-0 pages allocations
by NIC drivers, we are sending too big RWIN, leading to potential
tcp collapse operations, which are extremely expensive and source
of latency spikes.

This patch makes sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale obsolete, and instead
uses a per socket scaling factor, so that we can precisely
adjust the RWIN based on effective skb-&gt;len/skb-&gt;truesize ratio.

This patch alone can double TCP receive performance when receivers
are too slow to drain their receive queue, or by allowing
a bigger RWIN when MSS is close to PAGE_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh &lt;soheil@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230717152917.751987-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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With modern NIC drivers shifting to full page allocations per
received frame, we face the following issue:

TCP has one per-netns sysctl used to tweak how to translate
a memory use into an expected payload (RWIN), in RX path.

tcp_win_from_space() implementation is limited to few cases.

For hosts dealing with various MSS, we either under estimate
or over estimate the RWIN we send to the remote peers.

For instance with the default sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale value,
we expect to store 50% of payload per allocated chunk of memory.

For the typical use of MTU=1500 traffic, and order-0 pages allocations
by NIC drivers, we are sending too big RWIN, leading to potential
tcp collapse operations, which are extremely expensive and source
of latency spikes.

This patch makes sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale obsolete, and instead
uses a per socket scaling factor, so that we can precisely
adjust the RWIN based on effective skb-&gt;len/skb-&gt;truesize ratio.

This patch alone can double TCP receive performance when receivers
are too slow to drain their receive queue, or by allowing
a bigger RWIN when MSS is close to PAGE_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh &lt;soheil@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230717152917.751987-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: enforce receive buffer memory limits by allowing the tcp window to shrink</title>
<updated>2023-06-17T08:53:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>mfreemon@cloudflare.com</name>
<email>mfreemon@cloudflare.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-12T03:05:24+00:00</published>
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Under certain circumstances, the tcp receive buffer memory limit
set by autotuning (sk_rcvbuf) is increased due to incoming data
packets as a result of the window not closing when it should be.
This can result in the receive buffer growing all the way up to
tcp_rmem[2], even for tcp sessions with a low BDP.

To reproduce:  Connect a TCP session with the receiver doing
nothing and the sender sending small packets (an infinite loop
of socket send() with 4 bytes of payload with a sleep of 1 ms
in between each send()).  This will cause the tcp receive buffer
to grow all the way up to tcp_rmem[2].

As a result, a host can have individual tcp sessions with receive
buffers of size tcp_rmem[2], and the host itself can reach tcp_mem
limits, causing the host to go into tcp memory pressure mode.

The fundamental issue is the relationship between the granularity
of the window scaling factor and the number of byte ACKed back
to the sender.  This problem has previously been identified in
RFC 7323, appendix F [1].

The Linux kernel currently adheres to never shrinking the window.

In addition to the overallocation of memory mentioned above, the
current behavior is functionally incorrect, because once tcp_rmem[2]
is reached when no remediations remain (i.e. tcp collapse fails to
free up any more memory and there are no packets to prune from the
out-of-order queue), the receiver will drop in-window packets
resulting in retransmissions and an eventual timeout of the tcp
session.  A receive buffer full condition should instead result
in a zero window and an indefinite wait.

In practice, this problem is largely hidden for most flows.  It
is not applicable to mice flows.  Elephant flows can send data
fast enough to "overrun" the sk_rcvbuf limit (in a single ACK),
triggering a zero window.

But this problem does show up for other types of flows.  Examples
are websockets and other type of flows that send small amounts of
data spaced apart slightly in time.  In these cases, we directly
encounter the problem described in [1].

RFC 7323, section 2.4 [2], says there are instances when a retracted
window can be offered, and that TCP implementations MUST ensure
that they handle a shrinking window, as specified in RFC 1122,
section 4.2.2.16 [3].  All prior RFCs on the topic of tcp window
management have made clear that sender must accept a shrunk window
from the receiver, including RFC 793 [4] and RFC 1323 [5].

This patch implements the functionality to shrink the tcp window
when necessary to keep the right edge within the memory limit by
autotuning (sk_rcvbuf).  This new functionality is enabled with
the new sysctl: net.ipv4.tcp_shrink_window

Additional information can be found at:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/unbounded-memory-usage-by-tcp-for-receive-buffers-and-how-we-fixed-it/

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7323#appendix-F
[2] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7323#section-2.4
[3] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1122#page-91
[4] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc793
[5] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1323

Signed-off-by: Mike Freemon &lt;mfreemon@cloudflare.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Under certain circumstances, the tcp receive buffer memory limit
set by autotuning (sk_rcvbuf) is increased due to incoming data
packets as a result of the window not closing when it should be.
This can result in the receive buffer growing all the way up to
tcp_rmem[2], even for tcp sessions with a low BDP.

To reproduce:  Connect a TCP session with the receiver doing
nothing and the sender sending small packets (an infinite loop
of socket send() with 4 bytes of payload with a sleep of 1 ms
in between each send()).  This will cause the tcp receive buffer
to grow all the way up to tcp_rmem[2].

As a result, a host can have individual tcp sessions with receive
buffers of size tcp_rmem[2], and the host itself can reach tcp_mem
limits, causing the host to go into tcp memory pressure mode.

The fundamental issue is the relationship between the granularity
of the window scaling factor and the number of byte ACKed back
to the sender.  This problem has previously been identified in
RFC 7323, appendix F [1].

The Linux kernel currently adheres to never shrinking the window.

In addition to the overallocation of memory mentioned above, the
current behavior is functionally incorrect, because once tcp_rmem[2]
is reached when no remediations remain (i.e. tcp collapse fails to
free up any more memory and there are no packets to prune from the
out-of-order queue), the receiver will drop in-window packets
resulting in retransmissions and an eventual timeout of the tcp
session.  A receive buffer full condition should instead result
in a zero window and an indefinite wait.

In practice, this problem is largely hidden for most flows.  It
is not applicable to mice flows.  Elephant flows can send data
fast enough to "overrun" the sk_rcvbuf limit (in a single ACK),
triggering a zero window.

But this problem does show up for other types of flows.  Examples
are websockets and other type of flows that send small amounts of
data spaced apart slightly in time.  In these cases, we directly
encounter the problem described in [1].

RFC 7323, section 2.4 [2], says there are instances when a retracted
window can be offered, and that TCP implementations MUST ensure
that they handle a shrinking window, as specified in RFC 1122,
section 4.2.2.16 [3].  All prior RFCs on the topic of tcp window
management have made clear that sender must accept a shrunk window
from the receiver, including RFC 793 [4] and RFC 1323 [5].

This patch implements the functionality to shrink the tcp window
when necessary to keep the right edge within the memory limit by
autotuning (sk_rcvbuf).  This new functionality is enabled with
the new sysctl: net.ipv4.tcp_shrink_window

Additional information can be found at:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/unbounded-memory-usage-by-tcp-for-receive-buffers-and-how-we-fixed-it/

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7323#appendix-F
[2] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7323#section-2.4
[3] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1122#page-91
[4] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc793
[5] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1323

Signed-off-by: Mike Freemon &lt;mfreemon@cloudflare.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2023-06-08T18:35:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-08T18:34:28+00:00</published>
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Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR.

Conflicts:

net/sched/sch_taprio.c
  d636fc5dd692 ("net: sched: add rcu annotations around qdisc-&gt;qdisc_sleeping")
  dced11ef84fb ("net/sched: taprio: don't overwrite "sch" variable in taprio_dump_class_stats()")

net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
  e209fee4118f ("net/ipv4: ping_group_range: allow GID from 2147483648 to 4294967294")
  ccce324dabfe ("tcp: make the first N SYN RTO backoffs linear")
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230605100816.08d41a7b@canb.auug.org.au/

No adjacent changes.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR.

Conflicts:

net/sched/sch_taprio.c
  d636fc5dd692 ("net: sched: add rcu annotations around qdisc-&gt;qdisc_sleeping")
  dced11ef84fb ("net/sched: taprio: don't overwrite "sch" variable in taprio_dump_class_stats()")

net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
  e209fee4118f ("net/ipv4: ping_group_range: allow GID from 2147483648 to 4294967294")
  ccce324dabfe ("tcp: make the first N SYN RTO backoffs linear")
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230605100816.08d41a7b@canb.auug.org.au/

No adjacent changes.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net/ipv4: ping_group_range: allow GID from 2147483648 to 4294967294</title>
<updated>2023-06-02T08:55:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Akihiro Suda</name>
<email>suda.gitsendemail@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-01T03:13:05+00:00</published>
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With this commit, all the GIDs ("0 4294967294") can be written to the
"net.ipv4.ping_group_range" sysctl.

Note that 4294967295 (0xffffffff) is an invalid GID (see gid_valid() in
include/linux/uidgid.h), and an attempt to register this number will cause
-EINVAL.

Prior to this commit, only up to GID 2147483647 could be covered.
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst had "0 4294967295" as an example
value, but this example was wrong and causing -EINVAL.

Fixes: c319b4d76b9e ("net: ipv4: add IPPROTO_ICMP socket kind")
Co-developed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Akihiro Suda &lt;akihiro.suda.cz@hco.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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With this commit, all the GIDs ("0 4294967294") can be written to the
"net.ipv4.ping_group_range" sysctl.

Note that 4294967295 (0xffffffff) is an invalid GID (see gid_valid() in
include/linux/uidgid.h), and an attempt to register this number will cause
-EINVAL.

Prior to this commit, only up to GID 2147483647 could be covered.
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst had "0 4294967295" as an example
value, but this example was wrong and causing -EINVAL.

Fixes: c319b4d76b9e ("net: ipv4: add IPPROTO_ICMP socket kind")
Co-developed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Akihiro Suda &lt;akihiro.suda.cz@hco.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tcp: make the first N SYN RTO backoffs linear</title>
<updated>2023-05-11T08:31:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Morley</name>
<email>morleyd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-09T18:05:58+00:00</published>
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Currently the SYN RTO schedule follows an exponential backoff
scheme, which can be unnecessarily conservative in cases where
there are link failures. In such cases, it's better to
aggressively try to retransmit packets, so it takes routers
less time to find a repath with a working link.

We chose a default value for this sysctl of 4, to follow
the macOS and IOS backoff scheme of 1,1,1,1,1,2,4,8, ...
MacOS and IOS have used this backoff schedule for over
a decade, since before this 2009 IETF presentation
discussed the behavior:
https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/75/slides/tcpm-1.pdf

This commit makes the SYN RTO schedule start with a number of
linear backoffs given by the following sysctl:
* tcp_syn_linear_timeouts

This changes the SYN RTO scheme to be: init_rto_val for
tcp_syn_linear_timeouts, exp backoff starting at init_rto_val

For example if init_rto_val = 1 and tcp_syn_linear_timeouts = 2, our
backoff scheme would be: 1, 1, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ...

Signed-off-by: David Morley &lt;morleyd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: David Morley &lt;morleyd@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230509180558.2541885-1-morleyd.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
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Currently the SYN RTO schedule follows an exponential backoff
scheme, which can be unnecessarily conservative in cases where
there are link failures. In such cases, it's better to
aggressively try to retransmit packets, so it takes routers
less time to find a repath with a working link.

We chose a default value for this sysctl of 4, to follow
the macOS and IOS backoff scheme of 1,1,1,1,1,2,4,8, ...
MacOS and IOS have used this backoff schedule for over
a decade, since before this 2009 IETF presentation
discussed the behavior:
https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/75/slides/tcpm-1.pdf

This commit makes the SYN RTO schedule start with a number of
linear backoffs given by the following sysctl:
* tcp_syn_linear_timeouts

This changes the SYN RTO scheme to be: init_rto_val for
tcp_syn_linear_timeouts, exp backoff starting at init_rto_val

For example if init_rto_val = 1 and tcp_syn_linear_timeouts = 2, our
backoff scheme would be: 1, 1, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ...

Signed-off-by: David Morley &lt;morleyd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: David Morley &lt;morleyd@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230509180558.2541885-1-morleyd.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv6: add icmpv6_error_anycast_as_unicast for ICMPv6</title>
<updated>2023-04-21T03:07:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mahesh Bandewar</name>
<email>maheshb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-19T01:32:38+00:00</published>
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ICMPv6 error packets are not sent to the anycast destinations and this
prevents things like traceroute from working. So create a setting similar
to ECHO when dealing with Anycast sources (icmpv6_echo_ignore_anycast).

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar &lt;maheshb@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maciej Żenczykowski &lt;maze@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230419013238.2691167-1-maheshb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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ICMPv6 error packets are not sent to the anycast destinations and this
prevents things like traceroute from working. So create a setting similar
to ECHO when dealing with Anycast sources (icmpv6_echo_ignore_anycast).

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar &lt;maheshb@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maciej Żenczykowski &lt;maze@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230419013238.2691167-1-maheshb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: restrict net.ipv4.tcp_app_win</title>
<updated>2023-04-07T07:19:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>YueHaibing</name>
<email>yuehaibing@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-06T06:34:50+00:00</published>
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UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:555:23
shift exponent 255 is too large for 32-bit type 'int'
CPU: 1 PID: 7907 Comm: ssh Not tainted 6.3.0-rc4-00161-g62bad54b26db-dirty #206
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 dump_stack_lvl+0x136/0x150
 __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x21f/0x5a0
 tcp_init_transfer.cold+0x3a/0xb9
 tcp_finish_connect+0x1d0/0x620
 tcp_rcv_state_process+0xd78/0x4d60
 tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x33d/0x9d0
 __release_sock+0x133/0x3b0
 release_sock+0x58/0x1b0

'maxwin' is int, shifting int for 32 or more bits is undefined behaviour.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: YueHaibing &lt;yuehaibing@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:555:23
shift exponent 255 is too large for 32-bit type 'int'
CPU: 1 PID: 7907 Comm: ssh Not tainted 6.3.0-rc4-00161-g62bad54b26db-dirty #206
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 dump_stack_lvl+0x136/0x150
 __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x21f/0x5a0
 tcp_init_transfer.cold+0x3a/0xb9
 tcp_finish_connect+0x1d0/0x620
 tcp_rcv_state_process+0xd78/0x4d60
 tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x33d/0x9d0
 __release_sock+0x133/0x3b0
 release_sock+0x58/0x1b0

'maxwin' is int, shifting int for 32 or more bits is undefined behaviour.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: YueHaibing &lt;yuehaibing@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>neighbor: fix proxy_delay usage when it is zero</title>
<updated>2023-02-02T05:02:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Brian Haley</name>
<email>haleyb.dev@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-30T17:14:28+00:00</published>
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When set to zero, the neighbor sysctl proxy_delay value
does not cause an immediate reply for ARP/ND requests
as expected, it instead causes a random delay between
[0, U32_MAX). Looking at this comment from
__get_random_u32_below() explains the reason:

/*
 * This function is technically undefined for ceil == 0, and in fact
 * for the non-underscored constant version in the header, we build bug
 * on that. But for the non-constant case, it's convenient to have that
 * evaluate to being a straight call to get_random_u32(), so that
 * get_random_u32_inclusive() can work over its whole range without
 * undefined behavior.
 */

Added helper function that does not call get_random_u32_below()
if proxy_delay is zero and just uses the current value of
jiffies instead, causing pneigh_enqueue() to respond
immediately.

Also added definition of proxy_delay to ip-sysctl.txt since
it was missing.

Signed-off-by: Brian Haley &lt;haleyb.dev@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230130171428.367111-1-haleyb.dev@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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When set to zero, the neighbor sysctl proxy_delay value
does not cause an immediate reply for ARP/ND requests
as expected, it instead causes a random delay between
[0, U32_MAX). Looking at this comment from
__get_random_u32_below() explains the reason:

/*
 * This function is technically undefined for ceil == 0, and in fact
 * for the non-underscored constant version in the header, we build bug
 * on that. But for the non-constant case, it's convenient to have that
 * evaluate to being a straight call to get_random_u32(), so that
 * get_random_u32_inclusive() can work over its whole range without
 * undefined behavior.
 */

Added helper function that does not call get_random_u32_below()
if proxy_delay is zero and just uses the current value of
jiffies instead, causing pneigh_enqueue() to respond
immediately.

Also added definition of proxy_delay to ip-sysctl.txt since
it was missing.

Signed-off-by: Brian Haley &lt;haleyb.dev@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230130171428.367111-1-haleyb.dev@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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