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authorAntony Antony <antony.antony@secunet.com>2021-12-22 14:11:18 +0100
committerSteffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>2021-12-23 09:32:51 +0100
commit4e484b3e969b52effd95c17f7a86f39208b2ccf4 (patch)
tree813756c3b558d6f58ce1e828f59183ed6ab9417d /include/net/xfrm.h
parent23b6a6df94c6ce434e7947cfad14b1640fb9f794 (diff)
downloadlinux-4e484b3e969b52effd95c17f7a86f39208b2ccf4.tar.gz
xfrm: rate limit SA mapping change message to user space
Kernel generates mapping change message, XFRM_MSG_MAPPING,
when a source port chage is detected on a input state with UDP
encapsulation set.  Kernel generates a message for each IPsec packet
with new source port.  For a high speed flow per packet mapping change
message can be excessive, and can overload the user space listener.

Introduce rate limiting for XFRM_MSG_MAPPING message to the user space.

The rate limiting is configurable via netlink, when adding a new SA or
updating it. Use the new attribute XFRMA_MTIMER_THRESH in seconds.

v1->v2 change:
	update xfrm_sa_len()

v2->v3 changes:
	use u32 insted unsigned long to reduce size of struct xfrm_state
	fix xfrm_ompat size Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
	accept XFRM_MSG_MAPPING only when XFRMA_ENCAP is present

Co-developed-by: Thomas Egerer <thomas.egerer@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Egerer <thomas.egerer@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Antony Antony <antony.antony@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/xfrm.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/xfrm.h5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/xfrm.h b/include/net/xfrm.h
index 2308210793a0..2589e4c0501b 100644
--- a/include/net/xfrm.h
+++ b/include/net/xfrm.h
@@ -200,6 +200,11 @@ struct xfrm_state {
 	struct xfrm_algo_aead	*aead;
 	const char		*geniv;
 
+	/* mapping change rate limiting */
+	__be16 new_mapping_sport;
+	u32 new_mapping;	/* seconds */
+	u32 mapping_maxage;	/* seconds for input SA */
+
 	/* Data for encapsulator */
 	struct xfrm_encap_tmpl	*encap;
 	struct sock __rcu	*encap_sk;