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tcp: implement RFC 5961 3.2
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:13:05 +0000 (10:13 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:36:20 +0000 (01:36 -0700)
commit79fe972a0c2ea6ec1d4720b419d94a4dda3723cb
tree9a306d99ed77d760078d29699edd3007507d709b
parent914d6f6c578e2ad5e67fc4853468a789f3d59871
tcp: implement RFC 5961 3.2

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 <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Kiran Kumar Kella <kkiran@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
include/linux/snmp.h
include/net/tcp.h
net/ipv4/proc.c
net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c