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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2015-03-11 18:53:14 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-03-11 21:55:28 -0400
commit33cf7c90fe2f97afb1cadaa0cfb782cb9d1b9ee2 (patch)
tree7a0c80d0b2bb618919d966ce5b827c7eb8f843f6 /include/net/net_namespace.h
parent654eff45166c7e89d18fc476325c975768b2e347 (diff)
net: add real socket cookies
A long standing problem in netlink socket dumps is the use of kernel socket addresses as cookies. 1) It is a security concern. 2) Sockets can be reused quite quickly, so there is no guarantee a cookie is used once and identify a flow. 3) request sock, establish sock, and timewait socks for a given flow have different cookies. Part of our effort to bring better TCP statistics requires to switch to a different allocator. In this patch, I chose to use a per network namespace 64bit generator, and to use it only in the case a socket needs to be dumped to netlink. (This might be refined later if needed) Note that I tried to carry cookies from request sock, to establish sock, then timewait sockets. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Eric Salo <salo@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/include/net/net_namespace.h b/include/net/net_namespace.h
index 2cb9acb618e9..e086f4030dd2 100644
--- a/include/net/net_namespace.h
+++ b/include/net/net_namespace.h
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ struct net {
#endif
spinlock_t rules_mod_lock;
+ atomic64_t cookie_gen;
+
struct list_head list; /* list of network namespaces */
struct list_head cleanup_list; /* namespaces on death row */
struct list_head exit_list; /* Use only net_mutex */