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Guillaume Nault says:
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tcp: fix handling of stale syncookies timestamps
The synflood timestamps (->ts_recent_stamp and ->synq_overflow_ts) are
only refreshed when the syncookie protection triggers. Therefore, their
value can become very far apart from jiffies if no synflood happens for
a long time.
If jiffies grows too much and wraps while the synflood timestamp isn't
refreshed, then time_after32() might consider the later to be in the
future. This can trick tcp_synq_no_recent_overflow() into returning
erroneous values and rejecting valid ACKs.
Patch 1 handles the case of ACKs using legitimate syncookies.
Patch 2 handles the case of stray ACKs.
Patch 3 annotates lockless timestamp operations with READ_ONCE() and
WRITE_ONCE().
Changes from v3:
- Fix description of time_between32() (found by Eric Dumazet).
- Use more accurate Fixes tag in patch 3 (suggested by Eric Dumazet).
Changes from v2:
- Define and use time_between32() instead of a pair of
time_before32/time_after32 (suggested by Eric Dumazet).
- Use 'last_overflow - HZ' as lower bound in
tcp_synq_no_recent_overflow(), to accommodate for concurrent
timestamp updates (found by Eric Dumazet).
- Add a third patch to annotate lockless accesses to .ts_recent_stamp.
Changes from v1:
- Initialising timestamps at socket creation time is not enough
because jiffies wraps in 24 days with HZ=1000 (Eric Dumazet).
Handle stale timestamps in tcp_synq_overflow() and
tcp_synq_no_recent_overflow() instead.
- Rework commit description.
- Add a second patch to handle the case of stray ACKs.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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