Commit 3ba07527 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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tcp: be less liberal in TSEcr received while in SYN_RECV state

Yong-Hao Zou mentioned that linux was not strict as other OS in 3WHS,
for flows using TCP TS option (RFC 7323)

As hinted by an old comment in tcp_check_req(),
we can check the TSEcr value in the incoming packet corresponds
to one of the SYNACK TSval values we have sent.

In this patch, I record the oldest and most recent values
that SYNACK packets have used.

Send a challenge ACK if we receive a TSEcr outside
of this range, and increase a new SNMP counter.

nstat -az | grep TSEcrRejected
TcpExtTSEcrRejected            0                  0.0

Due to TCP fastopen implementation, do not apply yet these checks
for fastopen flows.

v2: No longer use req->num_timeout, but treq->snt_tsval_first
    to detect when first SYNACK is prepared. This means
    we make sure to not send an initial zero TSval.
    Make sure MPTCP and TCP selftests are passing.
    Change MIB name to TcpExtTSEcrRejected

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CADVnQykD8i4ArpSZaPKaoNxLJ2if2ts9m4As+=Jvdkrgx1qMHw@mail.gmail.com/T/



Reported-by: default avatarYong-Hao Zou <yonghaoz1994@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMatthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250225171048.3105061-1-edumazet@google.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent 91c8d8e4
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