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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2016-07-10 10:04:02 +0200
committerDavid Chu <david.chu@mediatek.com>2016-10-03 16:28:28 -0700
commit82d1cac655b7fdf97ae8c36d5658524c5294819e (patch)
treefd2559aff6326776c6a2a83f289327ffaa6e4742
parentc58127adc70c1013bcd8480c72ec348b7edfd12c (diff)
downloadmediatek-82d1cac655b7fdf97ae8c36d5658524c5294819e.tar.gz
BACKPORT: tcp: make challenge acks less predictable
(cherry picked from commit 75ff39ccc1bd5d3c455b6822ab09e533c551f758) Yue Cao claims that current host rate limiting of challenge ACKS (RFC 5961) could leak enough information to allow a patient attacker to hijack TCP sessions. He will soon provide details in an academic paper. This patch increases the default limit from 100 to 1000, and adds some randomization so that the attacker can no longer hijack sessions without spending a considerable amount of probes. Based on initial analysis and patch from Linus. Note that we also have per socket rate limiting, so it is tempting to remove the host limit in the future. v2: randomize the count of challenge acks per second, not the period. Fixes: 282f23c6ee34 ("tcp: implement RFC 5961 3.2") Reported-by: Yue Cao <ycao009@ucr.edu> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Change-Id: Ib46ba66f5e4a5a7c81bfccd7b0aa83c3d9e1b3bb Bug: 30809774
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp_input.c14
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 0d94fd91d988..f18819ee8bd6 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/sysctl.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/reciprocal_div.h>
#include <net/dst.h>
#include <net/tcp.h>
#include <net/inet_common.h>
@@ -87,7 +88,7 @@ int sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale __read_mostly = 1;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale);
/* rfc5961 challenge ack rate limiting */
-int sysctl_tcp_challenge_ack_limit = 100;
+int sysctl_tcp_challenge_ack_limit = 1000;
int sysctl_tcp_stdurg __read_mostly;
int sysctl_tcp_rfc1337 __read_mostly;
@@ -3322,12 +3323,19 @@ static void tcp_send_challenge_ack(struct sock *sk)
static u32 challenge_timestamp;
static unsigned int challenge_count;
u32 now = jiffies / HZ;
+ u32 count;
if (now != challenge_timestamp) {
+ u32 half = (sysctl_tcp_challenge_ack_limit + 1) >> 1;
+
challenge_timestamp = now;
- challenge_count = 0;
+ ACCESS_ONCE(challenge_count) = half +
+ reciprocal_divide(prandom_u32(),
+ sysctl_tcp_challenge_ack_limit);
}
- if (++challenge_count <= sysctl_tcp_challenge_ack_limit) {
+ count = ACCESS_ONCE(challenge_count);
+ if (count > 0) {
+ ACCESS_ONCE(challenge_count) = count - 1;
NET_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPCHALLENGEACK);
tcp_send_ack(sk);
}