From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Phil Oester , Pablo Neira Ayuso , Luis Henriques Subject: [PATCH 079/145] netfilter: xt_TCPMSS: Fix violation of RFC879 in absence of MSS option Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:46:51 -0700 Message-Id: <1374101277-7915-80-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> In-Reply-To: <1374101277-7915-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1374101277-7915-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.8.13.5 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Phil Oester commit 409b545ac10d9548929557a75ad86540f59a2c83 upstream. The clamp-mss-to-pmtu option of the xt_TCPMSS target can cause issues connecting to websites if there was no MSS option present in the original SYN packet from the client. In these cases, it may add a MSS higher than the default specified in RFC879. Fix this by never setting a value > 536 if no MSS option was specified by the client. This closes netfilter's bugzilla #662. Signed-off-by: Phil Oester Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques --- net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c b/net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c index 71a266d..4960b66 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c +++ b/net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c @@ -124,6 +124,12 @@ tcpmss_mangle_packet(struct sk_buff *skb, skb_put(skb, TCPOLEN_MSS); + /* RFC 879 states that the default MSS is 536 without specific + * knowledge that the destination host is prepared to accept larger. + * Since no MSS was provided, we MUST NOT set a value > 536. + */ + newmss = min(newmss, (u16)536); + opt = (u_int8_t *)tcph + sizeof(struct tcphdr); memmove(opt + TCPOLEN_MSS, opt, tcplen - sizeof(struct tcphdr)); -- 1.8.1.2