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From: Simon Kirby <sim@netnation.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: TCP syn flood handling regression
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 04:27:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120310122725.GA31129@hostway.ca> (raw)

Hello!

A typical port 80 SYN flood started up to one of our clusters, but this
time, it didn't work so well. Legitimate connections and trying to fetch
server-status via localhost would hang for ~30 seconds before responding,
even though though the box had plenty of spare cycles. An strace of all
Apache processes showed quite a bit of sleeping in accept4().

This was with 3.2.9, so I went back in kernel builds and found that 3.1
and 3.0 were also broken, while 2.6.39 works as I remember -- when syn
cookies are enabled, everything just works and is fast. The DoS kept up,
so I was able to feed a bit to a node to do some bisection.

Of course, the DoS stopped literally seconds before the last bisection
test, but I got it down to:

# good: [0e734419923bd8e599858f8fc196c7804bb85564] ipv4: Use inet_csk_route_child_sock() in DCCP and TCP.
# bad: [ea4fc0d6193ff56fcef39b0d2210d402a7acb5f0] ipv4: Don't use rt->rt_{src,dst} in ip_queue_xmit().

...leaving ea4fc0d6193ff56fcef39b0d2210d402a7acb5f0 and
d9d8da805dcb503ef8ee49918a94d49085060f23 as culprits.

I've stared at them but can't see what could be doing this.

Simon-

             reply	other threads:[~2012-03-10 12:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-10 12:27 Simon Kirby [this message]
2012-03-10 17:44 ` TCP syn flood handling regression Eric Dumazet
2012-03-10 17:56   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-10 19:20     ` [PATCH] tcp: fix syncookie regression Eric Dumazet
2012-03-11 22:54       ` David Miller
2012-03-12 20:30       ` Simon Kirby
2012-03-13  7:26       ` Simon Kirby
2012-03-13 14:07         ` Dave Jones
2012-03-13 16:52           ` Neal Cardwell
2012-03-13 16:44         ` Neal Cardwell
2012-03-13 17:37           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-13 22:59             ` David Miller
2012-03-13 23:30               ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-14  0:36                 ` Simon Kirby

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