Re: TCP-MD5 checksum failure on x86_64 SMP

Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-17T17:22:56Z

On Mon, 17 May 2010 07:03:49 +0200
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:

> Le lundi 17 mai 2010 à 03:49 +0000, Bijay Singh a écrit :
>
> > I am on quite an old kernel 2.6.27 and could not apply your patches.
> >
> > Then i moved on to the kernel 2.6.32.11 however since then I have not been able to bring up my card, this is something i need to fix before i can test you fix. Working on that.
> >
>
> Thanks again for the status report.
>
> I see bug is older than what I stated in my previous mail
>
> I could reproduce it in my lab and confirm following patch fixes it
>
> This is a stable candidate (2.6.27 kernels)
>
> Thanks
>
> [PATCH] tcp: tcp_synack_options() fix
>
> Commit 33ad798c924b4a (tcp: options clean up) introduced a problem
> if MD5+SACK+timestamps were used in initial SYN message.
>
> Some stacks (old linux for example) try to negotiate MD5+SACK+TSTAMP
> sessions, but since 20 bytes of tcp options space are not enough to
> store all the bits needed, we chose to disable timestamps in this case.
>
> We send a SYN-ACK _without_ timestamp option, but socket has timestamps
> enabled and all further outgoing messages contain a TS block, all with
> the initial timestamp of the remote peer.
>
> Fix is to really disable timestamps option for the whole session.
>
> Reported-by: Bijay Singh <Bijay.Singh@guavus.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> ---
> net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
> index 0dda86e..b8bb226 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
> @@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ static unsigned tcp_synack_options(struct sock *sk,
> u8 cookie_plus = (xvp != NULL && !xvp->cookie_out_never) ?
> xvp->cookie_plus :
> 0;
> - bool doing_ts = ireq->tstamp_ok;
> + bool doing_ts;
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_TCP_MD5SIG
> *md5 = tcp_rsk(req)->af_specific->md5_lookup(sk, req);
> @@ -680,11 +680,12 @@ static unsigned tcp_synack_options(struct sock *sk,
> * rather than TS in order to fit in better with old,
> * buggy kernels, but that was deemed to be unnecessary.
> */
> - doing_ts &= !ireq->sack_ok;
> + ireq->tstamp_ok &= !ireq->sack_ok;
> }
> #else
> *md5 = NULL;
> #endif
> + doing_ts = ireq->tstamp_ok;
>
> /* We always send an MSS option. */
> opts->mss = mss;
>
>

Make this gets back to stable as well.

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