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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	akepner@sgi.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] "strict" ipv4 reassembly
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 01:36:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <428A800F.6040809@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050517232828.GA26894@gondor.apana.org.au>

Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 04:16:41PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
>>Good point, in both cases what ends up happening is that
>>the queue is invalidated.  In the existing case it's usually
>>because the final UDP or whatever checksum doesn't pass.
>>With your idea it'd be due to the artificially deflated timeout.
> 
> 
> It just occured to me that the optimisation in IPv4/IPv6 that performs
> fragmentation after tunnel-mode IPsec is fundamentally broken.  It
> makes IPsec vulnerable to fragmentation attacks.

You mean vulnerable at reassembly time? Isn't that something reassembly
and policy checks should take care of?

Regards
Patrick

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-17 23:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-17 16:18 [RFC/PATCH] "strict" ipv4 reassembly Arthur Kepner
2005-05-17 17:49 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 18:28   ` Arthur Kepner
2005-05-17 18:48     ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 20:21       ` Arthur Kepner
2005-05-17 18:38   ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-17 18:45     ` Pekka Savola
2005-05-17 18:50     ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 18:56       ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 18:57     ` John Heffner
2005-05-17 19:09       ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 19:21         ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 19:26         ` Ben Greear
2005-05-17 20:48         ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-17 19:17       ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-17 19:56         ` David Stevens
2005-05-17 20:17           ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-17 20:22             ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 20:27               ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-17 21:02                 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 21:13                   ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-17 21:24                     ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 21:25                   ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 22:06                     ` Arthur Kepner
2005-05-17 22:18                       ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 22:40                         ` David Stevens
2005-05-17 23:11                           ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-17 23:20                             ` Arthur Kepner
2005-05-17 23:25                               ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-17 23:55                                 ` David Stevens
2005-05-18  0:00                                   ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18  0:04                                 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-18  0:09                                   ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18  0:52                                     ` David S. Miller
2005-05-18  0:06                                 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-05-18  0:10                                   ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18  0:51                                     ` David S. Miller
2005-05-18  1:05                                       ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-18  1:13                                       ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18  1:09                                 ` John Heffner
2005-05-17 23:53                           ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 22:12                     ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 22:23                       ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 20:29           ` John Heffner
2005-05-17 19:01     ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-05-17 19:13       ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 19:25         ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-05-17 19:31           ` John Heffner
2005-05-17 19:52             ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-05-17 20:05               ` John Heffner
2005-05-17 20:12                 ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 19:33           ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 19:53             ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-17 22:11   ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-17 22:13     ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 23:08       ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-17 23:16         ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 23:28           ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-17 23:36             ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2005-05-17 23:41               ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18  0:47     ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-18  1:06       ` Arthur Kepner
2005-05-18  1:16       ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18  1:37         ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-18  1:52           ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18 11:30             ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-18 11:40               ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18 12:24                 ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-18 16:21           ` Rick Jones
2005-05-18 17:40             ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-18 17:44               ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-18 21:46                 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18 22:24                   ` David Stevens
2005-05-18 22:39                     ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-05-18 23:31                     ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-18 21:45             ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-19 12:23               ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-19 12:48                 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-19 15:19                   ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-19 17:02                 ` Rick Jones

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