[ 61/80] tcp: implement RFC 5961 3.2

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09T21:05:20Z

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

[ Upstream commit 282f23c6ee343126156dd41218b22ece96d747e3 ]

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

Idea is to validate incoming RST sequence,
to match RCV.NXT value, instead of previouly accepted
window : (RCV.NXT <= SEG.SEQ < RCV.NXT+RCV.WND)

If sequence is in window but not an exact match, send
a "challenge ACK", so that the other part can resend an
RST with the appropriate sequence.

Add a new sysctl, tcp_challenge_ack_limit, to limit
number of challenge ACK sent per second.

Add a new SNMP counter to count number of challenge acks sent.
(netstat -s | grep TCPChallengeACK)

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>
---
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 5 +++++
include/linux/snmp.h | 1 +
include/net/tcp.h | 1 +
net/ipv4/proc.c | 1 +
net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c | 7 +++++++
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
6 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -537,6 +537,11 @@ tcp_thin_dupack - BOOLEAN
Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt
Default: 0

+tcp_challenge_ack_limit - INTEGER
+ Limits number of Challenge ACK sent per second, as recommended
+ in RFC 5961 (Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks)
+ Default: 100
+
UDP variables:

udp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
--- a/include/linux/snmp.h
+++ b/include/linux/snmp.h
@@ -234,6 +234,7 @@ enum
LINUX_MIB_TCPREQQFULLDROP, /* TCPReqQFullDrop */
LINUX_MIB_TCPRETRANSFAIL, /* TCPRetransFail */
LINUX_MIB_TCPRCVCOALESCE, /* TCPRcvCoalesce */
+ LINUX_MIB_TCPCHALLENGEACK, /* TCPChallengeACK */
__LINUX_MIB_MAX
};

--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -252,6 +252,7 @@ extern int sysctl_tcp_max_ssthresh;
extern int sysctl_tcp_cookie_size;
extern int sysctl_tcp_thin_linear_timeouts;
extern int sysctl_tcp_thin_dupack;
+extern int sysctl_tcp_challenge_ack_limit;

extern atomic_long_t tcp_memory_allocated;
extern struct percpu_counter tcp_sockets_allocated;
--- a/net/ipv4/proc.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/proc.c
@@ -258,6 +258,7 @@ static const struct snmp_mib snmp4_net_l
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPReqQFullDrop", LINUX_MIB_TCPREQQFULLDROP),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPRetransFail", LINUX_MIB_TCPRETRANSFAIL),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPRcvCoalesce", LINUX_MIB_TCPRCVCOALESCE),
+ SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPChallengeACK", LINUX_MIB_TCPCHALLENGEACK),
SNMP_MIB_SENTINEL
};

--- a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
@@ -590,6 +590,13 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_table[] = {
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec
},
+ {
+ .procname = "tcp_challenge_ack_limit",
+ .data = &sysctl_tcp_challenge_ack_limit,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(int),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = proc_dointvec
+ },
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_DMA
{
.procname = "tcp_dma_copybreak",
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -88,6 +88,9 @@ int sysctl_tcp_app_win __read_mostly = 3
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_stdurg __read_mostly;
int sysctl_tcp_rfc1337 __read_mostly;
int sysctl_tcp_max_orphans __read_mostly = NR_FILE;
@@ -5265,6 +5268,23 @@ out:
}
#endif /* CONFIG_NET_DMA */

+static void tcp_send_challenge_ack(struct sock *sk)
+{
+ /* unprotected vars, we dont care of overwrites */
+ static u32 challenge_timestamp;
+ static unsigned int challenge_count;
+ u32 now = jiffies / HZ;
+
+ if (now != challenge_timestamp) {
+ challenge_timestamp = now;
+ challenge_count = 0;
+ }
+ if (++challenge_count <= sysctl_tcp_challenge_ack_limit) {
+ NET_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPCHALLENGEACK);
+ tcp_send_ack(sk);
+ }
+}
+
/* Does PAWS and seqno based validation of an incoming segment, flags will
* play significant role here.
*/
@@ -5301,7 +5321,16 @@ static int tcp_validate_incoming(struct

/* Step 2: check RST bit */
if (th->rst) {
- tcp_reset(sk);
+ /* RFC 5961 3.2 :
+ * If sequence number exactly matches RCV.NXT, then
+ * RESET the connection
+ * else
+ * Send a challenge ACK
+ */
+ if (TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq == tp->rcv_nxt)
+ tcp_reset(sk);
+ else
+ tcp_send_challenge_ack(sk);
goto discard;
}