[PATCH 4.9 25/48] ipv4: tcp: send zero IPID in SYNACK messages

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-02-07T11:13:58Z

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

[ Upstream commit 970a5a3ea86da637471d3cd04d513a0755aba4bf ]

In commit 431280eebed9 ("ipv4: tcp: send zero IPID for RST and
ACK sent in SYN-RECV and TIME-WAIT state") we took care of some
ctl packets sent by TCP.

It turns out we need to use a similar strategy for SYNACK packets.

By default, they carry IP_DF and IPID==0, but there are ways
to ask them to use the hashed IP ident generator and thus
be used to build off-path attacks.
(Ref: Off-Path TCP Exploits of the Mixed IPID Assignment)

One of this way is to force (before listener is started)
echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_no_pmtu_disc

Another way is using forged ICMP ICMP_FRAG_NEEDED
with a very small MTU (like 68) to force a false return from
ip_dont_fragment()

In this patch, ip_build_and_send_pkt() uses the following
heuristics.

1) Most SYNACK packets are smaller than IPV4_MIN_MTU and therefore
can use IP_DF regardless of the listener or route pmtu setting.

2) In case the SYNACK packet is bigger than IPV4_MIN_MTU,
we use prandom_u32() generator instead of the IPv4 hashed ident one.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Ray Che <xijiache@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Cc: Geoff Alexander <alexandg@cs.unm.edu>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
@@ -159,12 +159,19 @@ int ip_build_and_send_pkt(struct sk_buff
iph->daddr = (opt && opt->opt.srr ? opt->opt.faddr : daddr);
iph->saddr = saddr;
iph->protocol = sk->sk_protocol;
- if (ip_dont_fragment(sk, &rt->dst)) {
+ /* Do not bother generating IPID for small packets (eg SYNACK) */
+ if (skb->len <= IPV4_MIN_MTU || ip_dont_fragment(sk, &rt->dst)) {
iph->frag_off = htons(IP_DF);
iph->id = 0;
} else {
iph->frag_off = 0;
- __ip_select_ident(net, iph, 1);
+ /* TCP packets here are SYNACK with fat IPv4/TCP options.
+ * Avoid using the hashed IP ident generator.
+ */
+ if (sk->sk_protocol == IPPROTO_TCP)
+ iph->id = (__force __be16)prandom_u32();
+ else
+ __ip_select_ident(net, iph, 1);
}

if (opt && opt->opt.optlen) {