linux.git/net/ipv6/syncookies.c, branch v4.3

tcp: get_cookie_sock() consolidation

2015-06-07T22:19:52+00:00

IPv4 and IPv6 share same implementation of get_cookie_sock(),
and there is no point inlining it.

We add tcp_ prefix to the common helper name and export it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: fix ipv4 mapped request socks

2015-03-25T04:57:48+00:00

ss should display ipv4 mapped request sockets like this :

tcp    SYN-RECV   0      0  ::ffff:192.168.0.1:8080   ::ffff:192.0.2.1:35261

and not like this :

tcp    SYN-RECV   0      0  192.168.0.1:8080   192.0.2.1:35261

We should init ireq->ireq_family based on listener sk_family,
not the actual protocol carried by SYN packet.

This means we can set ireq_family in inet_reqsk_alloc()

Fixes: 3f66b083a5b7 ("inet: introduce ireq_family")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

inet: get rid of central tcp/dccp listener timer

2015-03-20T16:40:25+00:00

One of the major issue for TCP is the SYNACK rtx handling,
done by inet_csk_reqsk_queue_prune(), fired by the keepalive
timer of a TCP_LISTEN socket.

This function runs for awful long times, with socket lock held,
meaning that other cpus needing this lock have to spin for hundred of ms.

SYNACK are sent in huge bursts, likely to cause severe drops anyway.

This model was OK 15 years ago when memory was very tight.

We now can afford to have a timer per request sock.

Timer invocations no longer need to lock the listener,
and can be run from all cpus in parallel.

With following patch increasing somaxconn width to 32 bits,
I tested a listener with more than 4 million active request sockets,
and a steady SYNFLOOD of ~200,000 SYN per second.
Host was sending ~830,000 SYNACK per second.

This is ~100 times more what we could achieve before this patch.

Later, we will get rid of the listener hash and use ehash instead.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

inet: fix request sock refcounting

2015-03-18T02:02:29+00:00

While testing last patch series, I found req sock refcounting was wrong.

We must set skc_refcnt to 1 for all request socks added in hashes,
but also on request sockets created by FastOpen or syncookies.

It is tricky because we need to defer this initialization so that
future RCU lookups do not try to take a refcount on a not yet
fully initialized request socket.

Also get rid of ireq_refcnt alias.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Fixes: 13854e5a6046 ("inet: add proper refcounting to request sock")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: rename struct tcp_request_sock listener

2015-03-18T02:01:56+00:00

The listener field in struct tcp_request_sock is a pointer
back to the listener. We now have req->rsk_listener, so TCP
only needs one boolean and not a full pointer.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

inet: add sk_listener argument to inet_reqsk_alloc()

2015-03-18T02:01:55+00:00

listener socket can be used to set net pointer, and will
be later used to hold a reference on listener.

Add a const qualifier to first argument (struct request_sock_ops *),
and factorize all write_pnet(&ireq->ireq_net, sock_net(sk));

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

inet: introduce ireq_family

2015-03-13T02:58:13+00:00

Before inserting request socks into general hash table,
fill their socket family.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv6: add missing ireq_net & ir_cookie initializations

2015-03-13T02:58:12+00:00

I forgot to update dccp_v6_conn_request() & cookie_v6_check().
They both need to set ireq->ireq_net and ireq->ir_cookie

Lets clear ireq->ir_cookie in inet_reqsk_alloc()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Fixes: 33cf7c90fe2f ("net: add real socket cookies")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: allow setting ecn via routing table

2014-11-04T21:06:09+00:00

This patch allows to set ECN on a per-route basis in case the sysctl
tcp_ecn is not set to 1. In other words, when ECN is set for specific
routes, it provides a tcp_ecn=1 behaviour for that route while the rest
of the stack acts according to the global settings.

One can use 'ip route change dev $dev $net features ecn' to toggle this.

Having a more fine-grained per-route setting can be beneficial for various
reasons, for example, 1) within data centers, or 2) local ISPs may deploy
ECN support for their own video/streaming services [1], etc.

There was a recent measurement study/paper [2] which scanned the Alexa's
publicly available top million websites list from a vantage point in US,
Europe and Asia:

Half of the Alexa list will now happily use ECN (tcp_ecn=2, most likely
blamed to commit 255cac91c3 ("tcp: extend ECN sysctl to allow server-side
only ECN") ;)); the break in connectivity on-path was found is about
1 in 10,000 cases. Timeouts rather than receiving back RSTs were much
more common in the negotiation phase (and mostly seen in the Alexa
middle band, ranks around 50k-150k): from 12-thousand hosts on which
there _may_ be ECN-linked connection failures, only 79 failed with RST
when _not_ failing with RST when ECN is not requested.

It's unclear though, how much equipment in the wild actually marks CE
when buffers start to fill up.

We thought about a fallback to non-ECN for retransmitted SYNs as another
global option (which could perhaps one day be made default), but as Eric
points out, there's much more work needed to detect broken middleboxes.

Two examples Eric mentioned are buggy firewalls that accept only a single
SYN per flow, and middleboxes that successfully let an ECN flow establish,
but later mark CE for all packets (so cwnd converges to 1).

 [1] http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/89/slides/slides-89-tsvarea-1.pdf, p.15
 [2] http://ecn.ethz.ch/

Joint work with Daniel Borkmann.

Reference: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/335797
Suggested-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa 
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

syncookies: split cookie_check_timestamp() into two functions

2014-11-04T21:06:09+00:00

The function cookie_check_timestamp(), both called from IPv4/6 context,
is being used to decode the echoed timestamp from the SYN/ACK into TCP
options used for follow-up communication with the peer.

We can remove ECN handling from that function, split it into a separate
one, and simply rename the original function into cookie_decode_options().
cookie_decode_options() just fills in tcp_option struct based on the
echoed timestamp received from the peer. Anything that fails in this
function will actually discard the request socket.

While this is the natural place for decoding options such as ECN which
commit 172d69e63c7f ("syncookies: add support for ECN") added, we argue
that in particular for ECN handling, it can be checked at a later point
in time as the request sock would actually not need to be dropped from
this, but just ECN support turned off.

Therefore, we split this functionality into cookie_ecn_ok(), which tells
us if the timestamp indicates ECN support AND the tcp_ecn sysctl is enabled.

This prepares for per-route ECN support: just looking at the tcp_ecn sysctl
won't be enough anymore at that point; if the timestamp indicates ECN
and sysctl tcp_ecn == 0, we will also need to check the ECN dst metric.

This would mean adding a route lookup to cookie_check_timestamp(), which
we definitely want to avoid. As we already do a route lookup at a later
point in cookie_{v4,v6}_check(), we can simply make use of that as well
for the new cookie_ecn_ok() function w/o any additional cost.

Joint work with Daniel Borkmann.

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller