linux.git/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt, branch v5.5

net: Correct type of tcp_syncookies sysctl.

2020-01-03T00:07:38+00:00

It can take on the values of '0', '1', and '2' and thus
is not a boolean.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Fix a documentation bug wrt. ip_unprivileged_port_start

2019-11-26T21:17:49+00:00

It cannot overlap with the local port range - ie. with autobind selectable
ports - and not with reserved ports.

Indeed 'ip_local_reserved_ports' isn't even a range, it's a (by default
empty) set.

Fixes: 4548b683b781 ("Introduce a sysctl that modifies the value of PROT_SOCK.")
Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

sctp: add support for Primary Path Switchover

2019-11-08T22:18:32+00:00

This is a new feature defined in section 5 of rfc7829: "Primary Path
Switchover". By introducing a new tunable parameter:

  Primary.Switchover.Max.Retrans (PSMR)

The primary path will be changed to another active path when the path
error counter on the old primary path exceeds PSMR, so that "the SCTP
sender is allowed to continue data transmission on a new working path
even when the old primary destination address becomes active again".

This patch is to add this tunable parameter, 'ps_retrans' per netns,
sock, asoc and transport. It also allows a user to change ps_retrans
per netns by sysctl, and ps_retrans per sock/asoc/transport will be
initialized with it.

The check will be done in sctp_do_8_2_transport_strike() when this
feature is enabled.

Note this feature is disabled by initializing 'ps_retrans' per netns
as 0xffff by default, and its value can't be less than 'pf_retrans'
when changing by sysctl.

v3->v4:
  - add define SCTP_PS_RETRANS_MAX 0xffff, and use it on extra2 of
    sysctl 'ps_retrans'.
  - add a new entry for ps_retrans on ip-sysctl.txt.

Signed-off-by: Xin Long 
Acked-by: Neil Horman 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

sctp: add pf_expose per netns and sock and asoc

2019-11-08T22:18:32+00:00

As said in rfc7829, section 3, point 12:

  The SCTP stack SHOULD expose the PF state of its destination
  addresses to the ULP as well as provide the means to notify the
  ULP of state transitions of its destination addresses from
  active to PF, and vice versa.  However, it is recommended that
  an SCTP stack implementing SCTP-PF also allows for the ULP to be
  kept ignorant of the PF state of its destinations and the
  associated state transitions, thus allowing for retention of the
  simpler state transition model of [RFC4960] in the ULP.

Not only does it allow to expose the PF state to ULP, but also
allow to ignore sctp-pf to ULP.

So this patch is to add pf_expose per netns, sock and asoc. And in
sctp_assoc_control_transport(), ulp_notify will be set to false if
asoc->expose is not 'enabled' in next patch.

It also allows a user to change pf_expose per netns by sysctl, and
pf_expose per sock and asoc will be initialized with it.

Note that pf_expose also works for SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO sockopt,
to not allow a user to query the state of a sctp-pf peer address
when pf_expose is 'disabled', as said in section 7.3.

v1->v2:
  - Fix a build warning noticed by Nathan Chancellor.
v2->v3:
  - set pf_expose to UNUSED by default to keep compatible with old
    applications.
v3->v4:
  - add a new entry for pf_expose on ip-sysctl.txt, as Marcelo suggested.
  - change this patch to 1/5, and move sctp_assoc_control_transport
    change into 2/5, as Marcelo suggested.
  - use SCTP_PF_EXPOSE_UNSET instead of SCTP_PF_EXPOSE_UNUSED, and
    set SCTP_PF_EXPOSE_UNSET to 0 in enum, as Marcelo suggested.

Signed-off-by: Xin Long 
Acked-by: Neil Horman 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: increase tcp_max_syn_backlog max value

2019-10-31T21:02:01+00:00

tcp_max_syn_backlog default value depends on memory size
and TCP ehash size. Before this patch, the max value
was 2048 [1], which is considered too small nowadays.

Increase it to 4096 to match the recent SOMAXCONN change.

[1] This is with TCP ehash size being capped to 524288 buckets.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Willy Tarreau 
Cc: Yue Cao 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: increase SOMAXCONN to 4096

2019-10-31T21:01:40+00:00

SOMAXCONN is /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn default value.

It has been defined as 128 more than 20 years ago.

Since it caps the listen() backlog values, the very small value has
caused numerous problems over the years, and many people had
to raise it on their hosts after beeing hit by problems.

Google has been using 1024 for at least 15 years, and we increased
this to 4096 after TCP listener rework has been completed, more than
4 years ago. We got no complain of this change breaking any
legacy application.

Many applications indeed setup a TCP listener with listen(fd, -1);
meaning they let the system select the backlog.

Raising SOMAXCONN lowers chance of the port being unavailable under
even small SYNFLOOD attack, and reduces possibilities of side channel
vulnerabilities.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Willy Tarreau 
Cc: Yue Cao 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: add new tcp_mtu_probe_floor sysctl

2019-08-09T20:03:30+00:00

The current implementation of TCP MTU probing can considerably
underestimate the MTU on lossy connections allowing the MSS to get down to
48. We have found that in almost all of these cases on our networks these
paths can handle much larger MTUs meaning the connections are being
artificially limited. Even though TCP MTU probing can raise the MSS back up
we have seen this not to be the case causing connections to be "stuck" with
an MSS of 48 when heavy loss is present.

Prior to pushing out this change we could not keep TCP MTU probing enabled
b/c of the above reasons. Now with a reasonble floor set we've had it
enabled for the past 6 months.

The new sysctl will still default to TCP_MIN_SND_MSS (48), but gives
administrators the ability to control the floor of MSS probing.

Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

docs: admin-guide: move sysctl directory to it

2019-07-15T14:03:01+00:00

The stuff under sysctl describes /sys interface from userspace
point of view. So, add it to the admin-guide and remove the
:orphan: from its index file.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

docs: sysctl: convert to ReST

2019-07-15T12:20:26+00:00

Rename the /proc/sys/ documentation files to ReST, using the
README file as a template for an index.rst, adding the other
files there via TOC markup.

Despite being written on different times with different
styles, try to make them somewhat coherent with a similar
look and feel, ensuring that they'll look nice as both
raw text file and as via the html output produced by the
Sphinx build system.

At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

ipv6: Support multipath hashing on inner IP pkts

2019-07-08T23:37:29+00:00

Make the same support as commit 363887a2cdfe ("ipv4: Support multipath
hashing on inner IP pkts for GRE tunnel") for outer IPv6. The hashing
considers both IPv4 and IPv6 pkts when they are tunneled by IPv6 GRE.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Suryaputra 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller