From 86791bbfe5ed7b275be040cfeff049a1624af1b7 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/linux/snmp.h | 1 + include/net/tcp.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/snmp.h b/include/linux/snmp.h index 12b2b18e50c1..f7f67a0ec64a 100644 --- a/include/linux/snmp.h +++ b/include/linux/snmp.h @@ -231,6 +231,7 @@ enum LINUX_MIB_TCPDEFERACCEPTDROP, LINUX_MIB_IPRPFILTER, /* IP Reverse Path Filter (rp_filter) */ LINUX_MIB_TCPTIMEWAITOVERFLOW, /* TCPTimeWaitOverflow */ + LINUX_MIB_TCPCHALLENGEACK, /* TCPChallengeACK */ __LINUX_MIB_MAX }; diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h index cda30ea354a2..b28a49f48a04 100644 --- a/include/net/tcp.h +++ b/include/net/tcp.h @@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ 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