From 34fb350281ced2a72707a5c0064f69992d440edb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:13:05 +0200 Subject: tcp: implement RFC 5961 3.2 [ Upstream commit 282f23c6ee343126156dd41218b22ece96d747e3 ] Implement the RFC 5691 mitigation against Blind Reset attack using RST bit. Idea is to validate incoming RST sequence, to match RCV.NXT value, instead of previouly accepted window : (RCV.NXT <= SEG.SEQ < RCV.NXT+RCV.WND) If sequence is in window but not an exact match, send a "challenge ACK", so that the other part can resend an RST with the appropriate sequence. Add a new sysctl, tcp_challenge_ack_limit, to limit number of challenge ACK sent per second. Add a new SNMP counter to count number of challenge acks sent. (netstat -s | grep TCPChallengeACK) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Kiran Kumar Kella Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/net/tcp.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/net') diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h index f75a04d752cb..2757a115514c 100644 --- a/include/net/tcp.h +++ b/include/net/tcp.h @@ -252,6 +252,7 @@ extern int sysctl_tcp_max_ssthresh; extern int sysctl_tcp_cookie_size; extern int sysctl_tcp_thin_linear_timeouts; extern int sysctl_tcp_thin_dupack; +extern int sysctl_tcp_challenge_ack_limit; extern atomic_long_t tcp_memory_allocated; extern struct percpu_counter tcp_sockets_allocated; -- cgit v1.2.3