linux.git/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt, branch v3.17

inet: frag: set limits and make init_net's high_thresh limit global

2014-07-28T05:34:36+00:00

This patch makes init_net's high_thresh limit to be the maximum for all
namespaces, thus introducing a global memory limit threshold equal to the
sum of the individual high_thresh limits which are capped.
It also introduces some sane minimums for low_thresh as it shouldn't be
able to drop below 0 (or > high_thresh in the unsigned case), and
overall low_thresh should not ever be above high_thresh, so we make the
following relations for a namespace:
init_net:
 high_thresh - max(not capped), min(init_net low_thresh)
 low_thresh - max(init_net high_thresh), min (0)

all other namespaces:
 high_thresh = max(init_net high_thresh), min(namespace's low_thresh)
 low_thresh = max(namespace's high_thresh), min(0)

The major issue with having low_thresh > high_thresh is that we'll
schedule eviction but never evict anything and thus rely only on the
timers.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

inet: frag: remove periodic secret rebuild timer

2014-07-28T05:34:36+00:00

merge functionality into the eviction workqueue.

Instead of rebuilding every n seconds, take advantage of the upper
hash chain length limit.

If we hit it, mark table for rebuild and schedule workqueue.
To prevent frequent rebuilds when we're completely overloaded,
don't rebuild more than once every 5 seconds.

ipfrag_secret_interval sysctl is now obsolete and has been marked as
deprecated, it still can be changed so scripts won't be broken but it
won't have any effect. A comment is left above each unused secret_timer
variable to avoid confusion.

Joint work with Nikolay Aleksandrov.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

inet: frag: move eviction of queues to work queue

2014-07-28T05:34:35+00:00

When the high_thresh limit is reached we try to toss the 'oldest'
incomplete fragment queues until memory limits are below the low_thresh
value.  This happens in softirq/packet processing context.

This has two drawbacks:

1) processors might evict a queue that was about to be completed
by another cpu, because they will compete wrt. resource usage and
resource reclaim.

2) LRU list maintenance is expensive.

But when constantly overloaded, even the 'least recently used' element is
recent, so removing 'lru' queue first is not 'fairer' than removing any
other fragment queue.

This moves eviction out of the fast path:

When the low threshold is reached, a work queue is scheduled
which then iterates over the table and removes the queues that exceed
the memory limits of the namespace. It sets a new flag called
INET_FRAG_EVICTED on the evicted queues so the proper counters will get
incremented when the queue is forcefully expired.

When the high threshold is reached, no more fragment queues are
created until we're below the limit again.

The LRU list is now unused and will be removed in a followup patch.

Joint work with Nikolay Aleksandrov.

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv6: Implement automatic flow label generation on transmit

2014-07-08T04:14:21+00:00

Automatically generate flow labels for IPv6 packets on transmit.
The flow label is computed based on skb_get_hash. The flow label will
only automatically be set when it is zero otherwise (i.e. flow label
manager hasn't set one). This supports the transmit side functionality
of RFC 6438.

Added an IPv6 sysctl auto_flowlabels to enable/disable this behavior
system wide, and added IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL socket option to enable this
functionality per socket.

By default, auto flowlabels are disabled to avoid possible conflicts
with flow label manager, however if this feature proves useful we
may want to enable it by default.

It should also be noted that FreeBSD has already implemented automatic
flow labels (including the sysctl and socket option). In FreeBSD,
automatic flow labels default to enabled.

Performance impact:

Running super_netperf with 200 flows for TCP_RR and UDP_RR for
IPv6. Note that in UDP case, __skb_get_hash will be called for
every packet with explains slight regression. In the TCP case
the hash is saved in the socket so there is no regression.

Automatic flow labels disabled:

  TCP_RR:
    86.53% CPU utilization
    127/195/322 90/95/99% latencies
    1.40498e+06 tps

  UDP_RR:
    90.70% CPU utilization
    118/168/243 90/95/99% latencies
    1.50309e+06 tps

Automatic flow labels enabled:

  TCP_RR:
    85.90% CPU utilization
    128/199/337 90/95/99% latencies
    1.40051e+06

  UDP_RR
    92.61% CPU utilization
    115/164/236 90/95/99% latencies
    1.4687e+06

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv6: Allow accepting RA from local IP addresses.

2014-07-01T19:16:24+00:00

This can be used in virtual networking applications, and
may have other uses as well.  The option is disabled by
default.

A specific use case is setting up virtual routers, bridges, and
hosts on a single OS without the use of network namespaces or
virtual machines.  With proper use of ip rules, routing tables,
veth interface pairs and/or other virtual interfaces,
and applications that can bind to interfaces and/or IP addresses,
it is possibly to create one or more virtual routers with multiple
hosts attached.  The host interfaces can act as IPv6 systems,
with radvd running on the ports in the virtual routers.  With the
option provided in this patch enabled, those hosts can now properly
obtain IPv6 addresses from the radvd.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Document promote_secondaries

2014-01-28T04:39:21+00:00

From 038a821667f62c496f2bbae27081b1b612122a97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Schwenke 
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:16:49 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] net: Document promote_secondaries

This option was added a long time ago...

  commit 8f937c6099858eee15fae14009dcbd05177fa91d
  Author: Harald Welte 
  Date:   Sun May 29 20:23:46 2005 -0700

    [IPV4]: Primary and secondary addresses

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwenke 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv6: add flowlabel_consistency sysctl

2014-01-20T01:12:31+00:00

With the introduction of IPV6_FL_F_REFLECT, there is no guarantee of
flow label unicity. This patch introduces a new sysctl to protect the old
behaviour, enable by default.

Changelog of V3:
 * rename ip6_flowlabel_consistency to flowlabel_consistency
 * use net_info_ratelimited()
 * checkpatch cleanups

Signed-off-by: Florent Fourcot 
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: introduce hardened ip_no_pmtu_disc mode

2014-01-13T19:22:55+00:00

This new ip_no_pmtu_disc mode only allowes fragmentation-needed errors
to be honored by protocols which do more stringent validation on the
ICMP's packet payload. This knob is useful for people who e.g. want to
run an unmodified DNS server in a namespace where they need to use pmtu
for TCP connections (as they are used for zone transfers or fallback
for requests) but don't want to use possibly spoofed UDP pmtu information.

Currently the whitelisted protocols are TCP, SCTP and DCCP as they check
if the returned packet is in the window or if the association is valid.

Cc: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: John Heffner 
Suggested-by: Florian Weimer 
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: introduce ip_dst_mtu_maybe_forward and protect forwarding path against pmtu spoofing

2014-01-13T19:22:54+00:00

While forwarding we should not use the protocol path mtu to calculate
the mtu for a forwarded packet but instead use the interface mtu.

We mark forwarded skbs in ip_forward with IPSKB_FORWARDED, which was
introduced for multicast forwarding. But as it does not conflict with
our usage in unicast code path it is perfect for reuse.

I moved the functions ip_sk_accept_pmtu, ip_sk_use_pmtu and ip_skb_dst_mtu
along with the new ip_dst_mtu_maybe_forward to net/ip.h to fix circular
dependencies because of IPSKB_FORWARDED.

Because someone might have written a software which does probe
destinations manually and expects the kernel to honour those path mtus
I introduced a new per-namespace "ip_forward_use_pmtu" knob so someone
can disable this new behaviour. We also still use mtus which are locked on a
route for forwarding.

The reason for this change is, that path mtus information can be injected
into the kernel via e.g. icmp_err protocol handler without verification
of local sockets. As such, this could cause the IPv4 forwarding path to
wrongfully emit fragmentation needed notifications or start to fragment
packets along a path.

Tunnel and ipsec output paths clear IPCB again, thus IPSKB_FORWARDED
won't be set and further fragmentation logic will use the path mtu to
determine the fragmentation size. They also recheck packet size with
help of path mtu discovery and report appropriate errors.

Cc: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: John Heffner 
Cc: Steffen Klassert 
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

IPv6: add the option to use anycast addresses as source addresses in echo reply

2014-01-07T20:51:39+00:00

This change allows to follow a recommandation of RFC4942.

- Add "anycast_src_echo_reply" sysctl to control the use of anycast addresses
  as source addresses for ICMPv6 echo reply. This sysctl is false by default
  to preserve existing behavior.
- Add inline check ipv6_anycast_destination().
- Use them in icmpv6_echo_reply().

Reference:
RFC4942 - IPv6 Transition/Coexistence Security Considerations
   (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4942#section-2.1.6)

2.1.6. Anycast Traffic Identification and Security

   [...]
   To avoid exposing knowledge about the internal structure of the
   network, it is recommended that anycast servers now take advantage of
   the ability to return responses with the anycast address as the
   source address if possible.

Signed-off-by: Francois-Xavier Le Bail 
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller