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authorHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>2015-01-23 12:01:26 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-01-26 17:28:27 -0800
commitdf4d92549f23e1c037e83323aff58a21b3de7fe0 (patch)
treecb82536dd48281496b6652b628266cdcacffb91d /include
parent412d2907c41531b60c7ea1f38cfe1116daf2a229 (diff)
downloadlinux-df4d92549f23e1c037e83323aff58a21b3de7fe0.tar.gz
ipv4: try to cache dst_entries which would cause a redirect
Not caching dst_entries which cause redirects could be exploited by hosts
on the same subnet, causing a severe DoS attack. This effect aggravated
since commit f88649721268999 ("ipv4: fix dst race in sk_dst_get()").

Lookups causing redirects will be allocated with DST_NOCACHE set which
will force dst_release to free them via RCU.  Unfortunately waiting for
RCU grace period just takes too long, we can end up with >1M dst_entries
waiting to be released and the system will run OOM. rcuos threads cannot
catch up under high softirq load.

Attaching the flag to emit a redirect later on to the specific skb allows
us to cache those dst_entries thus reducing the pressure on allocation
and deallocation.

This issue was discovered by Marcelo Leitner.

Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Leitner <mleitner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/net/ip.h11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/ip.h b/include/net/ip.h
index 0bb620702929..f7cbd703d15d 100644
--- a/include/net/ip.h
+++ b/include/net/ip.h
@@ -39,11 +39,12 @@ struct inet_skb_parm {
 	struct ip_options	opt;		/* Compiled IP options		*/
 	unsigned char		flags;
 
-#define IPSKB_FORWARDED		1
-#define IPSKB_XFRM_TUNNEL_SIZE	2
-#define IPSKB_XFRM_TRANSFORMED	4
-#define IPSKB_FRAG_COMPLETE	8
-#define IPSKB_REROUTED		16
+#define IPSKB_FORWARDED		BIT(0)
+#define IPSKB_XFRM_TUNNEL_SIZE	BIT(1)
+#define IPSKB_XFRM_TRANSFORMED	BIT(2)
+#define IPSKB_FRAG_COMPLETE	BIT(3)
+#define IPSKB_REROUTED		BIT(4)
+#define IPSKB_DOREDIRECT	BIT(5)
 
 	u16			frag_max_size;
 };