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Commit 8c27bd75 authored by Florian Westphal's avatar Florian Westphal Committed by David S. Miller
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tcp: syncookies: reduce cookie lifetime to 128 seconds



We currently accept cookies that were created less than 4 minutes ago
(ie, cookies with counter delta 0-3).  Combined with the 8 mss table
values, this yields 32 possible values (out of 2**32) that will be valid.

Reducing the lifetime to < 2 minutes halves the guessing chance while
still providing a large enough period.

While at it, get rid of jiffies value -- they overflow too quickly on
32 bit platforms.

getnstimeofday is used to create a counter that increments every 64s.
perf shows getnstimeofday cost is negible compared to sha_transform;
normal tcp initial sequence number generation uses getnstimeofday, too.

Reported-by: default avatarJakob Lell <jakob@jakoblell.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 61f860c3
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+18 −0
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@@ -481,6 +481,24 @@ int __cookie_v4_check(const struct iphdr *iph, const struct tcphdr *th,
struct sock *cookie_v4_check(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
			     struct ip_options *opt);
#ifdef CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES
#include <linux/ktime.h>

/* Syncookies use a monotonic timer which increments every 64 seconds.
 * This counter is used both as a hash input and partially encoded into
 * the cookie value.  A cookie is only validated further if the delta
 * between the current counter value and the encoded one is less than this,
 * i.e. a sent cookie is valid only at most for 128 seconds (or less if
 * the counter advances immediately after a cookie is generated).
 */
#define MAX_SYNCOOKIE_AGE 2

static inline u32 tcp_cookie_time(void)
{
	struct timespec now;
	getnstimeofday(&now);
	return now.tv_sec >> 6; /* 64 seconds granularity */
}

u32 __cookie_v4_init_sequence(const struct iphdr *iph, const struct tcphdr *th,
			      u16 *mssp);
__u32 cookie_v4_init_sequence(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, __u16 *mss);
+10 −21
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@@ -89,8 +89,7 @@ __u32 cookie_init_timestamp(struct request_sock *req)


static __u32 secure_tcp_syn_cookie(__be32 saddr, __be32 daddr, __be16 sport,
				   __be16 dport, __u32 sseq, __u32 count,
				   __u32 data)
				   __be16 dport, __u32 sseq, __u32 data)
{
	/*
	 * Compute the secure sequence number.
@@ -102,7 +101,7 @@ static __u32 secure_tcp_syn_cookie(__be32 saddr, __be32 daddr, __be16 sport,
	 * As an extra hack, we add a small "data" value that encodes the
	 * MSS into the second hash value.
	 */

	u32 count = tcp_cookie_time();
	return (cookie_hash(saddr, daddr, sport, dport, 0, 0) +
		sseq + (count << COOKIEBITS) +
		((cookie_hash(saddr, daddr, sport, dport, count, 1) + data)
@@ -114,22 +113,21 @@ static __u32 secure_tcp_syn_cookie(__be32 saddr, __be32 daddr, __be16 sport,
 * If the syncookie is bad, the data returned will be out of
 * range.  This must be checked by the caller.
 *
 * The count value used to generate the cookie must be within
 * "maxdiff" if the current (passed-in) "count".  The return value
 * is (__u32)-1 if this test fails.
 * The count value used to generate the cookie must be less than
 * MAX_SYNCOOKIE_AGE minutes in the past.
 * The return value (__u32)-1 if this test fails.
 */
static __u32 check_tcp_syn_cookie(__u32 cookie, __be32 saddr, __be32 daddr,
				  __be16 sport, __be16 dport, __u32 sseq,
				  __u32 count, __u32 maxdiff)
				  __be16 sport, __be16 dport, __u32 sseq)
{
	__u32 diff;
	u32 diff, count = tcp_cookie_time();

	/* Strip away the layers from the cookie */
	cookie -= cookie_hash(saddr, daddr, sport, dport, 0, 0) + sseq;

	/* Cookie is now reduced to (count * 2^24) ^ (hash % 2^24) */
	diff = (count - (cookie >> COOKIEBITS)) & ((__u32) - 1 >> COOKIEBITS);
	if (diff >= maxdiff)
	if (diff >= MAX_SYNCOOKIE_AGE)
		return (__u32)-1;

	return (cookie -
@@ -173,7 +171,7 @@ u32 __cookie_v4_init_sequence(const struct iphdr *iph, const struct tcphdr *th,

	return secure_tcp_syn_cookie(iph->saddr, iph->daddr,
				     th->source, th->dest, ntohl(th->seq),
				     jiffies / (HZ * 60), mssind);
				     mssind);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__cookie_v4_init_sequence);

@@ -188,13 +186,6 @@ __u32 cookie_v4_init_sequence(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, __u16 *mssp)
	return __cookie_v4_init_sequence(iph, th, mssp);
}

/*
 * This (misnamed) value is the age of syncookie which is permitted.
 * Its ideal value should be dependent on TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT and
 * sysctl_tcp_retries1. It's a rather complicated formula (exponential
 * backoff) to compute at runtime so it's currently hardcoded here.
 */
#define COUNTER_TRIES 4
/*
 * Check if a ack sequence number is a valid syncookie.
 * Return the decoded mss if it is, or 0 if not.
@@ -204,9 +195,7 @@ int __cookie_v4_check(const struct iphdr *iph, const struct tcphdr *th,
{
	__u32 seq = ntohl(th->seq) - 1;
	__u32 mssind = check_tcp_syn_cookie(cookie, iph->saddr, iph->daddr,
					    th->source, th->dest, seq,
					    jiffies / (HZ * 60),
					    COUNTER_TRIES);
					    th->source, th->dest, seq);

	return mssind < ARRAY_SIZE(msstab) ? msstab[mssind] : 0;
}
+7 −17
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@@ -36,14 +36,6 @@ static __u16 const msstab[] = {
	9000 - 60,
};

/*
 * This (misnamed) value is the age of syncookie which is permitted.
 * Its ideal value should be dependent on TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT and
 * sysctl_tcp_retries1. It's a rather complicated formula (exponential
 * backoff) to compute at runtime so it's currently hardcoded here.
 */
#define COUNTER_TRIES 4

static inline struct sock *get_cookie_sock(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
					   struct request_sock *req,
					   struct dst_entry *dst)
@@ -86,8 +78,9 @@ static u32 cookie_hash(const struct in6_addr *saddr, const struct in6_addr *dadd
static __u32 secure_tcp_syn_cookie(const struct in6_addr *saddr,
				   const struct in6_addr *daddr,
				   __be16 sport, __be16 dport, __u32 sseq,
				   __u32 count, __u32 data)
				   __u32 data)
{
	u32 count = tcp_cookie_time();
	return (cookie_hash(saddr, daddr, sport, dport, 0, 0) +
		sseq + (count << COOKIEBITS) +
		((cookie_hash(saddr, daddr, sport, dport, count, 1) + data)
@@ -96,15 +89,14 @@ static __u32 secure_tcp_syn_cookie(const struct in6_addr *saddr,

static __u32 check_tcp_syn_cookie(__u32 cookie, const struct in6_addr *saddr,
				  const struct in6_addr *daddr, __be16 sport,
				  __be16 dport, __u32 sseq, __u32 count,
				  __u32 maxdiff)
				  __be16 dport, __u32 sseq)
{
	__u32 diff;
	__u32 diff, count = tcp_cookie_time();

	cookie -= cookie_hash(saddr, daddr, sport, dport, 0, 0) + sseq;

	diff = (count - (cookie >> COOKIEBITS)) & ((__u32) -1 >> COOKIEBITS);
	if (diff >= maxdiff)
	if (diff >= MAX_SYNCOOKIE_AGE)
		return (__u32)-1;

	return (cookie -
@@ -125,8 +117,7 @@ u32 __cookie_v6_init_sequence(const struct ipv6hdr *iph,
	*mssp = msstab[mssind];

	return secure_tcp_syn_cookie(&iph->saddr, &iph->daddr, th->source,
				     th->dest, ntohl(th->seq),
				     jiffies / (HZ * 60), mssind);
				     th->dest, ntohl(th->seq), mssind);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__cookie_v6_init_sequence);

@@ -146,8 +137,7 @@ int __cookie_v6_check(const struct ipv6hdr *iph, const struct tcphdr *th,
{
	__u32 seq = ntohl(th->seq) - 1;
	__u32 mssind = check_tcp_syn_cookie(cookie, &iph->saddr, &iph->daddr,
					    th->source, th->dest, seq,
					    jiffies / (HZ * 60), COUNTER_TRIES);
					    th->source, th->dest, seq);

	return mssind < ARRAY_SIZE(msstab) ? msstab[mssind] : 0;
}