linux.git/include/net/netns/ipv4.h, branch v5.7

tcp: bind(0) remove the SO_REUSEADDR restriction when ephemeral ports are exhausted.

2020-03-12T19:08:09+00:00

Commit aacd9289af8b82f5fb01bcdd53d0e3406d1333c7 ("tcp: bind() use stronger
condition for bind_conflict") introduced a restriction to forbid to bind
SO_REUSEADDR enabled sockets to the same (addr, port) tuple in order to
assign ports dispersedly so that we can connect to the same remote host.

The change results in accelerating port depletion so that we fail to bind
sockets to the same local port even if we want to connect to the different
remote hosts.

You can reproduce this issue by following instructions below.

  1. # sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range="32768 32768"
  2. set SO_REUSEADDR to two sockets.
  3. bind two sockets to (localhost, 0) and the latter fails.

Therefore, when ephemeral ports are exhausted, bind(0) should fallback to
the legacy behaviour to enable the SO_REUSEADDR option and make it possible
to connect to different remote (addr, port) tuples.

This patch allows us to bind SO_REUSEADDR enabled sockets to the same
(addr, port) only when net.ipv4.ip_autobind_reuse is set 1 and all
ephemeral ports are exhausted. This also allows connect() and listen() to
share ports in the following way and may break some applications. So the
ip_autobind_reuse is 0 by default and disables the feature.

  1. setsockopt(sk1, SO_REUSEADDR)
  2. setsockopt(sk2, SO_REUSEADDR)
  3. bind(sk1, saddr, 0)
  4. bind(sk2, saddr, 0)
  5. connect(sk1, daddr)
  6. listen(sk2)

If it is set 1, we can fully utilize the 4-tuples, but we should use
IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT for bind()+connect() as possible.

The notable thing is that if all sockets bound to the same port have
both SO_REUSEADDR and SO_REUSEPORT enabled, we can bind sockets to an
ephemeral port and also do listen().

Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net-tcp: Disable TCP ssthresh metrics cache by default

2019-12-10T04:17:48+00:00

This patch introduces a sysctl knob "net.ipv4.tcp_no_ssthresh_metrics_save"
that disables TCP ssthresh metrics cache by default. Other parts of TCP
metrics cache, e.g. rtt, cwnd, remain unchanged.

As modern networks becoming more and more dynamic, TCP metrics cache
today often causes more harm than benefits. For example, the same IP
address is often shared by different subscribers behind NAT in residential
networks. Even if the IP address is not shared by different users,
caching the slow-start threshold of a previous short flow using loss-based
congestion control (e.g. cubic) often causes the future longer flows of
the same network path to exit slow-start prematurely with abysmal
throughput.

Caching ssthresh is very risky and can lead to terrible performance.
Therefore it makes sense to make disabling ssthresh caching by
default and opt-in for specific networks by the administrators.
This practice also has worked well for several years of deployment with
CUBIC congestion control at Google.

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet 
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell 
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng 
Signed-off-by: Kevin(Yudong) Yang 
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

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

2019-06-18T03:20:36+00:00

Honestly all the conflicts were simple overlapping changes,
nothing really interesting to report.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: add tcp_min_snd_mss sysctl

2019-06-16T01:47:31+00:00

Some TCP peers announce a very small MSS option in their SYN and/or
SYN/ACK messages.

This forces the stack to send packets with a very high network/cpu
overhead.

Linux has enforced a minimal value of 48. Since this value includes
the size of TCP options, and that the options can consume up to 40
bytes, this means that each segment can include only 8 bytes of payload.

In some cases, it can be useful to increase the minimal value
to a saner value.

We still let the default to 48 (TCP_MIN_SND_MSS), for compatibility
reasons.

Note that TCP_MAXSEG socket option enforces a minimal value
of (TCP_MIN_MSS). David Miller increased this minimal value
in commit c39508d6f118 ("tcp: Make TCP_MAXSEG minimum more correct.")
from 64 to 88.

We might in the future merge TCP_MIN_SND_MSS and TCP_MIN_MSS.

CVE-2019-11479 -- tcp mss hardcoded to 48

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Suggested-by: Jonathan Looney 
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell 
Cc: Yuchung Cheng 
Cc: Tyler Hicks 
Cc: Bruce Curtis 
Cc: Jonathan Lemon 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: dynamically allocate fqdir structures

2019-05-26T21:08:05+00:00

Following patch will add rcu grace period before fqdir
rhashtable destruction, so we need to dynamically allocate
fqdir structures to not force expensive synchronize_rcu() calls
in netns dismantle path.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: rename struct fqdir fields

2019-05-26T21:08:05+00:00

Rename the @frags fields from structs netns_ipv4, netns_ipv6,
netns_nf_frag and netns_ieee802154_lowpan to @fqdir

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

inet: rename netns_frags to fqdir

2019-05-26T21:08:04+00:00

1) struct netns_frags is renamed to struct fqdir
  This structure is really holding many frag queues in a hash table.

2) (struct inet_frag_queue)->net field is renamed to fqdir
  since net is generally associated to a 'struct net' pointer
  in networking stack.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

inet: switch IP ID generator to siphash

2019-03-27T21:29:26+00:00

According to Amit Klein and Benny Pinkas, IP ID generation is too weak
and might be used by attackers.

Even with recent net_hash_mix() fix (netns: provide pure entropy for net_hash_mix())
having 64bit key and Jenkins hash is risky.

It is time to switch to siphash and its 128bit keys.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Reported-by: Amit Klein 
Reported-by: Benny Pinkas 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: provide a sysctl raw_l3mdev_accept for raw socket lookup with VRFs

2018-11-08T00:12:38+00:00

Add a sysctl raw_l3mdev_accept to control raw socket lookup in a manner
similar to use of tcp_l3mdev_accept for stream and of udp_l3mdev_accept
for datagram sockets. Have this default to enabled for reasons of
backwards compatibility. This is so as to specify the output device
with cmsg and IP_PKTINFO, but using a socket not bound to the
corresponding VRF. This allows e.g. older ping implementations to be
run with specifying the device but without executing it in the VRF.
If the option is disabled, packets received in a VRF context are only
handled by a raw socket bound to the VRF, and correspondingly packets
in the default VRF are only handled by a socket not bound to any VRF.

Signed-off-by: Mike Manning 
Reviewed-by: David Ahern 
Tested-by: David Ahern 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller