[ 62/80] tcp: implement RFC 5961 4.2

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09T21:04:44Z

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

[ Upstream commit 0c24604b68fc7810d429d6c3657b6f148270e528 ]

Implement the RFC 5691 mitigation against Blind
Reset attack using SYN bit.

Section 4.2 of RFC 5961 advises to send a Challenge ACK and drop
incoming packet, instead of resetting the session.

Add a new SNMP counter to count number of challenge acks sent
in response to SYN packets.
(netstat -s | grep TCPSYNChallenge)

Remove obsolete TCPAbortOnSyn, since we no longer abort a TCP session
because of a SYN flag.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.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>
---
include/linux/snmp.h | 2 +-
net/ipv4/proc.c | 2 +-
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 32 +++++++++++++++-----------------
3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/snmp.h
+++ b/include/linux/snmp.h
@@ -208,7 +208,6 @@ enum
LINUX_MIB_TCPDSACKOFOSENT, /* TCPDSACKOfoSent */
LINUX_MIB_TCPDSACKRECV, /* TCPDSACKRecv */
LINUX_MIB_TCPDSACKOFORECV, /* TCPDSACKOfoRecv */
- LINUX_MIB_TCPABORTONSYN, /* TCPAbortOnSyn */
LINUX_MIB_TCPABORTONDATA, /* TCPAbortOnData */
LINUX_MIB_TCPABORTONCLOSE, /* TCPAbortOnClose */
LINUX_MIB_TCPABORTONMEMORY, /* TCPAbortOnMemory */
@@ -235,6 +234,7 @@ enum
LINUX_MIB_TCPRETRANSFAIL, /* TCPRetransFail */
LINUX_MIB_TCPRCVCOALESCE, /* TCPRcvCoalesce */
LINUX_MIB_TCPCHALLENGEACK, /* TCPChallengeACK */
+ LINUX_MIB_TCPSYNCHALLENGE, /* TCPSYNChallenge */
__LINUX_MIB_MAX
};

--- a/net/ipv4/proc.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/proc.c
@@ -232,7 +232,6 @@ static const struct snmp_mib snmp4_net_l
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPDSACKOfoSent", LINUX_MIB_TCPDSACKOFOSENT),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPDSACKRecv", LINUX_MIB_TCPDSACKRECV),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPDSACKOfoRecv", LINUX_MIB_TCPDSACKOFORECV),
- SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPAbortOnSyn", LINUX_MIB_TCPABORTONSYN),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPAbortOnData", LINUX_MIB_TCPABORTONDATA),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPAbortOnClose", LINUX_MIB_TCPABORTONCLOSE),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPAbortOnMemory", LINUX_MIB_TCPABORTONMEMORY),
@@ -259,6 +258,7 @@ static const struct snmp_mib snmp4_net_l
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPRetransFail", LINUX_MIB_TCPRETRANSFAIL),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPRcvCoalesce", LINUX_MIB_TCPRCVCOALESCE),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPChallengeACK", LINUX_MIB_TCPCHALLENGEACK),
+ SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPSYNChallenge", LINUX_MIB_TCPSYNCHALLENGE),
SNMP_MIB_SENTINEL
};

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -5288,8 +5288,8 @@ static void tcp_send_challenge_ack(struc
/* Does PAWS and seqno based validation of an incoming segment, flags will
* play significant role here.
*/
-static int tcp_validate_incoming(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
- const struct tcphdr *th, int syn_inerr)
+static bool tcp_validate_incoming(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
+ const struct tcphdr *th, int syn_inerr)
{
const u8 *hash_location;
struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
@@ -5341,20 +5341,22 @@ static int tcp_validate_incoming(struct

/* step 3: check security and precedence [ignored] */

- /* step 4: Check for a SYN in window. */
- if (th->syn && !before(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq, tp->rcv_nxt)) {
+ /* step 4: Check for a SYN
+ * RFC 5691 4.2 : Send a challenge ack
+ */
+ if (th->syn) {
if (syn_inerr)
TCP_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk), TCP_MIB_INERRS);
- NET_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPABORTONSYN);
- tcp_reset(sk);
- return -1;
+ NET_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPSYNCHALLENGE);
+ tcp_send_challenge_ack(sk);
+ goto discard;
}

- return 1;
+ return true;

discard:
__kfree_skb(skb);
- return 0;
+ return false;
}

/*
@@ -5384,7 +5386,6 @@ int tcp_rcv_established(struct sock *sk,
const struct tcphdr *th, unsigned int len)
{
struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
- int res;

/*
* Header prediction.
@@ -5564,9 +5565,8 @@ slow_path:
* Standard slow path.
*/

- res = tcp_validate_incoming(sk, skb, th, 1);
- if (res <= 0)
- return -res;
+ if (!tcp_validate_incoming(sk, skb, th, 1))
+ return 0;

step5:
if (th->ack && tcp_ack(sk, skb, FLAG_SLOWPATH) < 0)
@@ -5876,7 +5876,6 @@ int tcp_rcv_state_process(struct sock *s
struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk);
int queued = 0;
- int res;

tp->rx_opt.saw_tstamp = 0;

@@ -5931,9 +5930,8 @@ int tcp_rcv_state_process(struct sock *s
return 0;
}

- res = tcp_validate_incoming(sk, skb, th, 0);
- if (res <= 0)
- return -res;
+ if (!tcp_validate_incoming(sk, skb, th, 0))
+ return 0;

/* step 5: check the ACK field */
if (th->ack) {