[ 63/80] tcp: refine SYN handling in tcp_validate_incoming

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09T21:11:06Z

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

[ Upstream commit e371589917011efe6ff8c7dfb4e9e81934ac5855 ]

Followup of commit 0c24604b68fc (tcp: implement RFC 5961 4.2)

As reported by Vijay Subramanian, we should send a challenge ACK
instead of a dup ack if a SYN flag is set on a packet received out of
window.

This permits the ratelimiting to work as intended, and to increase
correct SNMP counters.

Suggested-by: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@gmail.com>
Cc: Kiran Kumar Kella <kkiran@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -5314,8 +5314,11 @@ static bool tcp_validate_incoming(struct
* an acknowledgment should be sent in reply (unless the RST
* bit is set, if so drop the segment and return)".
*/
- if (!th->rst)
+ if (!th->rst) {
+ if (th->syn)
+ goto syn_challenge;
tcp_send_dupack(sk, skb);
+ }
goto discard;
}

@@ -5345,6 +5348,7 @@ static bool tcp_validate_incoming(struct
* RFC 5691 4.2 : Send a challenge ack
*/
if (th->syn) {
+syn_challenge:
if (syn_inerr)
TCP_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk), TCP_MIB_INERRS);
NET_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPSYNCHALLENGE);