linux.git/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt, branch v4.15

tcp: retire FACK loss detection

2017-11-11T09:53:16+00:00

FACK loss detection has been disabled by default and the
successor RACK subsumed FACK and can handle reordering better.
This patch removes FACK to simplify TCP loss recovery.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng 
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet 
Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell 
Reviewed-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh 
Reviewed-by: Priyaranjan Jha 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: ipv6: sysctl to specify IPv6 ND traffic class

2017-11-11T06:13:02+00:00

Add a per-device sysctl to specify the default traffic class to use for
kernel originated IPv6 Neighbour Discovery packets.

Currently this includes:

  - Router Solicitation (ICMPv6 type 133)
    ndisc_send_rs() -> ndisc_send_skb() -> ip6_nd_hdr()

  - Neighbour Solicitation (ICMPv6 type 135)
    ndisc_send_ns() -> ndisc_send_skb() -> ip6_nd_hdr()

  - Neighbour Advertisement (ICMPv6 type 136)
    ndisc_send_na() -> ndisc_send_skb() -> ip6_nd_hdr()

  - Redirect (ICMPv6 type 137)
    ndisc_send_redirect() -> ndisc_send_skb() -> ip6_nd_hdr()

and if the kernel ever gets around to generating RA's,
it would presumably also include:

  - Router Advertisement (ICMPv6 type 134)
    (radvd daemon could pick up on the kernel setting and use it)

Interface drivers may examine the Traffic Class value and translate
the DiffServ Code Point into a link-layer appropriate traffic
prioritization scheme.  An example of mapping IETF DSCP values to
IEEE 802.11 User Priority values can be found here:

    https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-ieee-802-11

The expected primary use case is to properly prioritize ND over wifi.

Testing:
  jzem22:~# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth0/ndisc_tclass
  0
  jzem22:~# echo -1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth0/ndisc_tclass
  -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
  jzem22:~# echo 256 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth0/ndisc_tclass
  -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
  jzem22:~# echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth0/ndisc_tclass
  jzem22:~# echo 255 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth0/ndisc_tclass
  jzem22:~# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth0/ndisc_tclass
  255
  jzem22:~# echo 34 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth0/ndisc_tclass
  jzem22:~# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth0/ndisc_tclass
  34

  jzem22:~# echo $[0xDC] > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth0/ndisc_tclass
  jzem22:~# tcpdump -v -i eth0 icmp6 and src host jzem22.pgc and dst host fe80::1
  tcpdump: listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 262144 bytes
  IP6 (class 0xdc, hlim 255, next-header ICMPv6 (58) payload length: 24)
  jzem22.pgc > fe80::1: [icmp6 sum ok] ICMP6, neighbor advertisement,
  length 24, tgt is jzem22.pgc, Flags [solicited]

(based on original change written by Erik Kline, with minor changes)

v2: fix 'suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage'
    by explicitly grabbing the rcu_read_lock.

Cc: Lorenzo Colitti 
Signed-off-by: Erik Kline 
Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: higher throughput under reordering with adaptive RACK reordering wnd

2017-11-05T14:15:42+00:00

Currently TCP RACK loss detection does not work well if packets are
being reordered beyond its static reordering window (min_rtt/4).Under
such reordering it may falsely trigger loss recoveries and reduce TCP
throughput significantly.

This patch improves that by increasing and reducing the reordering
window based on DSACK, which is now supported in major TCP implementations.
It makes RACK's reo_wnd adaptive based on DSACK and no. of recoveries.

- If DSACK is received, increment reo_wnd by min_rtt/4 (upper bounded
  by srtt), since there is possibility that spurious retransmission was
  due to reordering delay longer than reo_wnd.

- Persist the current reo_wnd value for TCP_RACK_RECOVERY_THRESH (16)
  no. of successful recoveries (accounts for full DSACK-based loss
  recovery undo). After that, reset it to default (min_rtt/4).

- At max, reo_wnd is incremented only once per rtt. So that the new
  DSACK on which we are reacting, is due to the spurious retx (approx)
  after the reo_wnd has been updated last time.

- reo_wnd is tracked in terms of steps (of min_rtt/4), rather than
  absolute value to account for change in rtt.

In our internal testing, we observed significant increase in throughput,
in scenarios where reordering exceeds min_rtt/4 (previous static value).

Signed-off-by: Priyaranjan Jha 
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng 
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv6: Implement limits on Hop-by-Hop and Destination options

2017-11-03T00:50:22+00:00

RFC 8200 (IPv6) defines Hop-by-Hop options and Destination options
extension headers. Both of these carry a list of TLVs which is
only limited by the maximum length of the extension header (2048
bytes). By the spec a host must process all the TLVs in these
options, however these could be used as a fairly obvious
denial of service attack. I think this could in fact be
a significant DOS vector on the Internet, one mitigating
factor might be that many FWs drop all packets with EH (and
obviously this is only IPv6) so an Internet wide attack might not
be so effective (yet!).

By my calculation, the worse case packet with TLVs in a standard
1500 byte MTU packet that would be processed by the stack contains
1282 invidual TLVs (including pad TLVS) or 724 two byte TLVs. I
wrote a quick test program that floods a whole bunch of these
packets to a host and sure enough there is substantial time spent
in ip6_parse_tlv. These packets contain nothing but unknown TLVS
(that are ignored), TLV padding, and bogus UDP header with zero
payload length.

  25.38%  [kernel]                    [k] __fib6_clean_all
  21.63%  [kernel]                    [k] ip6_parse_tlv
   4.21%  [kernel]                    [k] __local_bh_enable_ip
   2.18%  [kernel]                    [k] ip6_pol_route.isra.39
   1.98%  [kernel]                    [k] fib6_walk_continue
   1.88%  [kernel]                    [k] _raw_write_lock_bh
   1.65%  [kernel]                    [k] dst_release

This patch adds configurable limits to Destination and Hop-by-Hop
options. There are three limits that may be set:
  - Limit the number of options in a Hop-by-Hop or Destination options
    extension header.
  - Limit the byte length of a Hop-by-Hop or Destination options
    extension header.
  - Disallow unrecognized options in a Hop-by-Hop or Destination
    options extension header.

The limits are set in corresponding sysctls:

  ipv6.sysctl.max_dst_opts_cnt
  ipv6.sysctl.max_hbh_opts_cnt
  ipv6.sysctl.max_dst_opts_len
  ipv6.sysctl.max_hbh_opts_len

If a max_*_opts_cnt is less than zero then unknown TLVs are disallowed.
The number of known TLVs that are allowed is the absolute value of
this number.

If a limit is exceeded when processing an extension header the packet is
dropped.

Default values are set to 8 for options counts, and set to INT_MAX
for maximum length. Note the choice to limit options to 8 is an
arbitrary guess (roughly based on the fact that the stack supports
three HBH options and just one destination option).

These limits have being proposed in draft-ietf-6man-rfc6434-bis.

Tested (by Martin Lau)

I tested out 1 thread (i.e. one raw_udp process).

I changed the net.ipv6.max_dst_(opts|hbh)_number between 8 to 2048.
With sysctls setting to 2048, the softirq% is packed to 100%.
With 8, the softirq% is almost unnoticable from mpstat.

v2;
  - Code and documention cleanup.
  - Change references of RFC2460 to be RFC8200.
  - Add reference to RFC6434-bis where the limits will be in standard.

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

ipv6: fix net.ipv6.conf.all interface DAD handlers

2017-09-19T23:44:02+00:00

Currently, writing into
net.ipv6.conf.all.{accept_dad,use_optimistic,optimistic_dad} has no effect.
Fix handling of these flags by:

- using the maximum of global and per-interface values for the
  accept_dad flag. That is, if at least one of the two values is
  non-zero, enable DAD on the interface. If at least one value is
  set to 2, enable DAD and disable IPv6 operation on the interface if
  MAC-based link-local address was found

- using the logical OR of global and per-interface values for the
  optimistic_dad flag. If at least one of them is set to one, optimistic
  duplicate address detection (RFC 4429) is enabled on the interface

- using the logical OR of global and per-interface values for the
  use_optimistic flag. If at least one of them is set to one,
  optimistic addresses won't be marked as deprecated during source address
  selection on the interface.

While at it, as we're modifying the prototype for ipv6_use_optimistic_addr(),
drop inline, and let the compiler decide.

Fixes: 7fd2561e4ebd ("net: ipv6: Add a sysctl to make optimistic addresses useful candidates")
Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

neigh: increase queue_len_bytes to match wmem_default

2017-08-29T23:10:50+00:00

Florian reported UDP xmit drops that could be root caused to the
too small neigh limit.

Current limit is 64 KB, meaning that even a single UDP socket would hit
it, since its default sk_sndbuf comes from net.core.wmem_default
(~212992 bytes on 64bit arches).

Once ARP/ND resolution is in progress, we should allow a little more
packets to be queued, at least for one producer.

Once neigh arp_queue is filled, a rogue socket should hit its sk_sndbuf
limit and either block in sendmsg() or return -EAGAIN.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Reported-by: Florian Fainelli 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv6: Add sysctl for per namespace flow label reflection

2017-08-25T01:05:43+00:00

Reflecting IPv6 Flow Label at server nodes is useful in environments
that employ multipath routing to load balance the requests. As "IPv6
Flow Label Reflection" standard draft [1] points out - ICMPv6 PTB error
messages generated in response to a downstream packets from the server
can be routed by a load balancer back to the original server without
looking at transport headers, if the server applies the flow label
reflection. This enables the Path MTU Discovery past the ECMP router in
load-balance or anycast environments where each server node is reachable
by only one path.

Introduce a sysctl to enable flow label reflection per net namespace for
all newly created sockets. Same could be earlier achieved only per
socket by setting the IPV6_FL_F_REFLECT flag for the IPV6_FLOWLABEL_MGR
socket option.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wang-6man-flow-label-reflection-01

Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: remove low_latency sysctl

2017-07-31T21:37:49+00:00

Was only checked by the removed prequeue code.

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

net: xfrm: revert to lower xfrm dst gc limit

2017-07-18T18:13:41+00:00

revert c386578f1cdb4dac230395 ("xfrm: Let the flowcache handle its size by default.").

Once we remove flow cache, we don't have a flow cache limit anymore.
We must not allow (virtually) unlimited allocations of xfrm dst entries.
Revert back to the old xfrm dst gc limits.

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

net/tcp_fastopen: Disable active side TFO in certain scenarios

2017-04-24T18:27:17+00:00

Middlebox firewall issues can potentially cause server's data being
blackholed after a successful 3WHS using TFO. Following are the related
reports from Apple:
https://www.nanog.org/sites/default/files/Paasch_Network_Support.pdf
Slide 31 identifies an issue where the client ACK to the server's data
sent during a TFO'd handshake is dropped.
C ---> syn-data ---> S
C <--- syn/ack ----- S
C (accept & write)
C <---- data ------- S
C ----- ACK -> X     S
		[retry and timeout]

https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/94/slides/slides-94-tcpm-13.pdf
Slide 5 shows a similar situation that the server's data gets dropped
after 3WHS.
C ---- syn-data ---> S
C <--- syn/ack ----- S
C ---- ack --------> S
S (accept & write)
C?  X <- data ------ S
		[retry and timeout]

This is the worst failure b/c the client can not detect such behavior to
mitigate the situation (such as disabling TFO). Failing to proceed, the
application (e.g., SSL library) may simply timeout and retry with TFO
again, and the process repeats indefinitely.

The proposed solution is to disable active TFO globally under the
following circumstances:
1. client side TFO socket detects out of order FIN
2. client side TFO socket receives out of order RST

We disable active side TFO globally for 1hr at first. Then if it
happens again, we disable it for 2h, then 4h, 8h, ...
And we reset the timeout to 1hr if a client side TFO sockets not opened
on loopback has successfully received data segs from server.
And we examine this condition during close().

The rational behind it is that when such firewall issue happens,
application running on the client should eventually close the socket as
it is not able to get the data it is expecting. Or application running
on the server should close the socket as it is not able to receive any
response from client.
In both cases, out of order FIN or RST will get received on the client
given that the firewall will not block them as no data are in those
frames.
And we want to disable active TFO globally as it helps if the middle box
is very close to the client and most of the connections are likely to
fail.

Also, add a debug sysctl:
  tcp_fastopen_blackhole_detect_timeout_sec:
    the initial timeout to use when firewall blackhole issue happens.
    This can be set and read.
    When setting it to 0, it means to disable the active disable logic.

Signed-off-by: Wei Wang 
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng 
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller