[PATCH 4/4] netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix tcp_in_window for Fast Open

[Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>]

From: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>

Currently the conntrack checks if the ending sequence of a packet
falls within the observed receive window. However it does so even
if it has not observe any packet from the remote yet and uses an
uninitialized receive window (td_maxwin).

If a connection uses Fast Open to send a SYN-data packet which is
dropped afterward in the network. The subsequent SYNs retransmits
will all fail this check and be discarded, leading to a connection
timeout. This is because the SYN retransmit does not contain data
payload so

end == initial sequence number (isn) + 1
sender->td_end == isn + syn_data_len
receiver->td_maxwin == 0

The fix is to only apply this check after td_maxwin is initialized.

Reported-by: Michael Chan <mcfchan@stanford.edu>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c |   12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c
index 7dcc376..2f80107 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c
@@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ static bool tcp_in_window(const struct nf_conn *ct,
 	const struct nf_conntrack_tuple *tuple = &ct->tuplehash[dir].tuple;
 	__u32 seq, ack, sack, end, win, swin;
 	s16 receiver_offset;
-	bool res;
+	bool res, in_recv_win;
 
 	/*
 	 * Get the required data from the packet.
@@ -649,14 +649,18 @@ static bool tcp_in_window(const struct nf_conn *ct,
 		 receiver->td_end, receiver->td_maxend, receiver->td_maxwin,
 		 receiver->td_scale);
 
+	/* Is the ending sequence in the receive window (if available)? */
+	in_recv_win = !receiver->td_maxwin ||
+		      after(end, sender->td_end - receiver->td_maxwin - 1);
+
 	pr_debug("tcp_in_window: I=%i II=%i III=%i IV=%i\n",
 		 before(seq, sender->td_maxend + 1),
-		 after(end, sender->td_end - receiver->td_maxwin - 1),
+		 (in_recv_win ? 1 : 0),
 		 before(sack, receiver->td_end + 1),
 		 after(sack, receiver->td_end - MAXACKWINDOW(sender) - 1));
 
 	if (before(seq, sender->td_maxend + 1) &&
-	    after(end, sender->td_end - receiver->td_maxwin - 1) &&
+	    in_recv_win &&
 	    before(sack, receiver->td_end + 1) &&
 	    after(sack, receiver->td_end - MAXACKWINDOW(sender) - 1)) {
 		/*
@@ -725,7 +729,7 @@ static bool tcp_in_window(const struct nf_conn *ct,
 			nf_log_packet(net, pf, 0, skb, NULL, NULL, NULL,
 			"nf_ct_tcp: %s ",
 			before(seq, sender->td_maxend + 1) ?
-			after(end, sender->td_end - receiver->td_maxwin - 1) ?
+			in_recv_win ?
 			before(sack, receiver->td_end + 1) ?
 			after(sack, receiver->td_end - MAXACKWINDOW(sender) - 1) ? "BUG"
 			: "ACK is under the lower bound (possible overly delayed ACK)"
-- 
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