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| author | Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> | 2016-04-01 08:52:22 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-04-04 22:11:20 -0400 |
| commit | 4ce7e93cb3fe87db5b700050172dc41def9834b3 (patch) | |
| tree | 0a650d759c08cd171c4074553203b92f85e3fa29 /net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c | |
| parent | a9d6532b567489196dac4ce60c62343e43228759 (diff) | |
tcp: rate limit ACK sent by SYN_RECV request sockets
Attackers like to use SYNFLOOD targeting one 5-tuple, as they
hit a single RX queue (and cpu) on the victim.
If they use random sequence numbers in their SYN, we detect
they do not match the expected window and send back an ACK.
This patch adds a rate limitation, so that the effect of such
attacks is limited to ingress only.
We roughly double our ability to absorb such attacks.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c index acb366dd61e6..4c53e7c86586 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c @@ -704,7 +704,10 @@ struct sock *tcp_check_req(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, if (paws_reject || !tcp_in_window(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq, TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq, tcp_rsk(req)->rcv_nxt, tcp_rsk(req)->rcv_nxt + req->rsk_rcv_wnd)) { /* Out of window: send ACK and drop. */ - if (!(flg & TCP_FLAG_RST)) + if (!(flg & TCP_FLAG_RST) && + !tcp_oow_rate_limited(sock_net(sk), skb, + LINUX_MIB_TCPACKSKIPPEDSYNRECV, + &tcp_rsk(req)->last_oow_ack_time)) req->rsk_ops->send_ack(sk, skb, req); if (paws_reject) NET_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_PAWSESTABREJECTED); |