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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: avoid tx starvation by SYNACK packets
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2012 07:46:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1338615992.2760.1665.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA93jw755V9kJ=P1gFsG2oafddhsebzfT3DuY5NX59GPpheOZg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 18:28 -0700, Dave Taht wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
> > From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> >
> > pfifo_fast being the default Qdisc, its pretty easy to fill it with
> > SYNACK (small) packets while host is under SYNFLOOD attack.
> >
> > Packets of established TCP sessions are dropped and host appears almost
> > dead.
> >
> > Avoid this problem assigning TC_PRIO_FILLER priority to SYNACK
> > generated in SYNCOOKIE mode, so that these packets are enqueued into
> > pfifo_fast band 2.
> >
> > Other packets, queued to band 0 or 1 are dequeued before any SYNACK
> > packets waiting in band 2.
> 
> I am curious as to how well fq_codel survives an attack like this, without aid.

codel or fq_codel are not doing priority classification.

SYNACK will spread in all hash buckets and global queue limit can be
hit.

fq_codel wont protect you by itself, unless you use a hierarchy with one
"prio" and two or three "fq_codel".

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-02  5:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-31 21:56 [PATCH net-next] tcp: avoid tx starvation by SYNACK packets Eric Dumazet
2012-05-31 23:03 ` David Miller
2012-06-01  4:48   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-01 17:46     ` David Miller
2012-06-01  7:00 ` [PATCH] tcp: do not create inetpeer on SYNACK message Eric Dumazet
2012-06-01 18:24   ` David Miller
2012-06-01 21:34   ` Hans Schillström
2012-06-02  6:56     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-01  7:36 ` [PATCH net-next] tcp: avoid tx starvation by SYNACK packets Hans Schillstrom
2012-06-01  9:34   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-02  1:28 ` Dave Taht
2012-06-02  5:46   ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-06-23  7:34     ` Vijay Subramanian
2012-06-23  8:42       ` [PATCH v2 " Eric Dumazet
2012-06-25  6:24         ` Hans Schillstrom
2012-06-25 22:43         ` David Miller
2012-06-26  4:51           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-26  4:55             ` David Miller
2012-06-26  5:34               ` Hans Schillstrom
2012-06-26  7:11                 ` David Miller
2012-06-26  7:27                   ` Hans Schillstrom
2012-06-26 17:02                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-27  5:23                   ` Hans Schillstrom
2012-06-27  8:22                     ` David Miller
2012-06-27  8:25                       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2012-06-27  8:30                       ` Hans Schillstrom
2012-06-27  8:40                       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-27  8:48                         ` David Miller
2012-06-27  6:32                   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2012-06-27  6:54                     ` David Miller
2012-06-27  7:24                       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2012-06-27  7:30                         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-27  7:54                           ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2012-06-27  8:02                             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-27  8:21                               ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2012-06-27  8:45                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-27  9:23                                   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2012-06-27  8:13                           ` David Miller
2012-06-27 19:50                       ` Florian Westphal
2012-06-27 21:39                         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-27 22:23                           ` David Miller
2012-06-27 22:23                         ` David Miller

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