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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2012-07-17 10:13:05 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-01-11 09:03:48 -0800
commit86791bbfe5ed7b275be040cfeff049a1624af1b7 (patch)
tree8d9ba632f0ce4a5aa72f42a91cdfff85cfffe7c8 /Documentation
parent9b79271d999e75f68410a5a5f23327c151dc450b (diff)
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 <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Kiran Kumar Kella <kkiran@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt5
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 7d4ecaa57cfa..890fce9b3683 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -534,6 +534,11 @@ tcp_thin_dupack - BOOLEAN
Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt
Default: 0
+tcp_challenge_ack_limit - INTEGER
+ Limits number of Challenge ACK sent per second, as recommended
+ in RFC 5961 (Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks)
+ Default: 100
+
UDP variables:
udp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max