resource exhaustion attacks.
For network link optimization TCP can adjust its MSS and thus
packet size according to the observed path MTU. This is done
dynamically based on feedback from the remote host and network
components along the packet path. This information can be
abused to pretend an extremely low path MTU.
The resource exhaustion works in two ways:
o during tcp connection setup the advertized local MSS is
exchanged between the endpoints. The remote endpoint can
set this arbitrarily low (except for a minimum MTU of 64
octets enforced in the BSD code). When the local host is
sending data it is forced to send many small IP packets
instead of a large one.
For example instead of the normal TCP payload size of 1448
it forces TCP payload size of 12 (MTU 64) and thus we have
a 120 times increase in workload and packets. On fast links
this quickly saturates the local CPU and may also hit pps
processing limites of network components along the path.
This type of attack is particularly effective for servers
where the attacker can download large files (WWW and FTP).
We mitigate it by enforcing a minimum MTU settable by sysctl
net.inet.tcp.minmss defaulting to 256 octets.
o the local host is reveiving data on a TCP connection from
the remote host. The local host has no control over the
packet size the remote host is sending. The remote host
may chose to do what is described in the first attack and
send the data in packets with an TCP payload of at least
one byte. For each packet the tcp_input() function will
be entered, the packet is processed and a sowakeup() is
signalled to the connected process.
For example an attack with 2 Mbit/s gives 4716 packets per
second and the same amount of sowakeup()s to the process
(and context switches).
This type of attack is particularly effective for servers
where the attacker can upload large amounts of data.
Normally this is the case with WWW server where large POSTs
can be made.
We mitigate this by calculating the average MSS payload per
second. If it goes below 'net.inet.tcp.minmss' and the pps
rate is above 'net.inet.tcp.minmssoverload' defaulting to
1000 this particular TCP connection is resetted and dropped.
MITRE CVE: CAN-2004-0002
Reviewed by: sam (mentor)
MFC after: 1 day
the routing table. Move all usage and references in the tcp stack
from the routing table metrics to the tcp hostcache.
It caches measured parameters of past tcp sessions to provide better
initial start values for following connections from or to the same
source or destination. Depending on the network parameters to/from
the remote host this can lead to significant speedups for new tcp
connections after the first one because they inherit and shortcut
the learning curve.
tcp_hostcache is designed for multiple concurrent access in SMP
environments with high contention and is hash indexed by remote
ip address.
It removes significant locking requirements from the tcp stack with
regard to the routing table.
Reviewed by: sam (mentor), bms
Reviewed by: -net, -current, core@kame.net (IPv6 parts)
Approved by: re (scottl)
previously only considered the send sequence space. Unfortunately,
some OSes (windows) still use a random positive increments scheme for
their syn-ack ISNs, so I must consider receive sequence space as well.
The value of 250000 bytes / second for Microsoft's ISN rate of increase
was determined by testing with an XP machine.
we will generate for a given ip/port tuple has advanced far enough
for the time_wait socket in question to be safely recycled.
- Have in_pcblookup_local use tcp_twrecycleable to determine if
time_Wait sockets which are hogging local ports can be safely
freed.
This change preserves proper TIME_WAIT behavior under normal
circumstances while allowing for safe and fast recycling whenever
ephemeral port space is scarce.
lastest rev of the spec. Use an explicit flag for Fast Recovery. [1]
Fix bug with exiting Fast Recovery on a retransmit timeout
diagnosed by Lu Guohan. [2]
Reviewed by: Thomas Henderson <thomas.r.henderson@boeing.com>
Reported and tested by: Lu Guohan <lguohan00@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn> [2]
Approved by: Thomas Henderson <thomas.r.henderson@boeing.com>,
Sally Floyd <floyd@acm.org> [1]
sure that the MAC label on TCP responses during TIMEWAIT is
properly set from either the socket (if available), or the mbuf
that it's responding to.
Unfortunately, this is made somewhat difficult by the TCP code,
as tcp_twstart() calls tcp_twrespond() after discarding the socket
but without a reference to the mbuf that causes the "response".
Passing both the socket and the mbuf works arounds this--eventually
it might be good to make sure the mbuf always gets passed in in
"response" scenarios but working through this provided to
complicate things too much.
Approved by: re (scottl)
Reviewed by: hsu
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
doing Limited Transmit. Only artificially inflate the congestion
window by 1 segment instead of the usual 3 to take into account
the 2 already sent by Limited Transmit.
Approved in principle by: Mark Allman <mallman@grc.nasa.gov>,
Hari Balakrishnan <hari@nms.lcs.mit.edu>, Sally Floyd <floyd@icir.org>
control block. Allow the socket and tcpcb structures to be freed
earlier than inpcb. Update code to understand an inp w/o a socket.
Reviewed by: hsu, silby, jayanth
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
routine does not require a tcpcb to operate. Since we no longer keep
template mbufs around, move pseudo checksum out of this routine, and
merge it with the length update.
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
not meant to duplicate) TCP/Vegas. Add four sysctls and default the
implementation to 'off'.
net.inet.tcp.inflight_enable enable algorithm (defaults to 0=off)
net.inet.tcp.inflight_debug debugging (defaults to 1=on)
net.inet.tcp.inflight_min minimum window limit
net.inet.tcp.inflight_max maximum window limit
MFC after: 1 week
indication of whether this happenned so the calling function
knows whether or not to unlock the pcb.
Submitted by: Jennifer Yang (yangjihui@yahoo.com)
Bug reported by: Sid Carter (sidcarter@symonds.net)
Ensure that the syn cache's syn-ack packets contain the same
ip_tos, ip_ttl, and DF bits as all other tcp packets.
PR: 39141
MFC after: 2 weeks
This time, make sure that ipv4 specific code (aka all of the above)
is only run in the ipv4 case.
receiver was not sending an immediate ack with delayed acks turned on
when the input buffer is drained, preventing the transmitter from
restarting immediately.
Propogate the TCP_NODELAY option to accept()ed sockets. (Helps tbench and
is a good idea anyway).
Some cleanup. Identify additonal issues in comments.
MFC after: 1 day
to send all its data, especially when the data is less than one MSS.
This fixes an issue where the stack was delaying the sending
of data, eventhough there was enough window to send all the data and
the sending of data was emptying the socket buffer.
Problem found by Yoshihiro Tsuchiya (tsuchiya@flab.fujitsu.co.jp)
Submitted by: Jayanth Vijayaraghavan
In order to ensure security and functionality, RFC 1948 style
initial sequence number generation has been implemented. Barring
any major crypographic breakthroughs, this algorithm should be
unbreakable. In addition, the problems with TIME_WAIT recycling
which affect our currently used algorithm are not present.
Reviewed by: jesper
generation scheme. Users may now select between the currently used
OpenBSD algorithm and the older random positive increment method.
While the OpenBSD algorithm is more secure, it also breaks TIME_WAIT
handling; this is causing trouble for an increasing number of folks.
To switch between generation schemes, one sets the sysctl
net.inet.tcp.tcp_seq_genscheme. 0 = random positive increments,
1 = the OpenBSD algorithm. 1 is still the default.
Once a secure _and_ compatible algorithm is implemented, this sysctl
will be removed.
Reviewed by: jlemon
Tested by: numerous subscribers of -net
connection. The information contained in a tcptemp can be
reconstructed from a tcpcb when needed.
Previously, tcp templates required the allocation of one
mbuf per connection. On large systems, this change should
free up a large number of mbufs.
Reviewed by: bmilekic, jlemon, ru
MFC after: 2 weeks
For TCP, verify that the sequence number in the ICMP packet falls within
the tcp receive window before performing any actions indicated by the
icmp packet.
Clean up some layering violations (access to tcp internals from in_pcb)
Add new PRC_UNREACH_ADMIN_PROHIB in sys/sys/protosw.h
Remove condition on TCP in src/sys/netinet/ip_icmp.c:icmp_input
In src/sys/netinet/ip_icmp.c:icmp_input set code = PRC_UNREACH_ADMIN_PROHIB
or PRC_UNREACH_HOST for all unreachables except ICMP_UNREACH_NEEDFRAG
Rename sysctl icmp_admin_prohib_like_rst to icmp_unreach_like_rst
to reflect the fact that we also react on ICMP unreachables that
are not administrative prohibited. Also update the comments to
reflect this.
In sys/netinet/tcp_subr.c:tcp_ctlinput add code to treat
PRC_UNREACH_ADMIN_PROHIB and PRC_UNREACH_HOST different.
PR: 23986
Submitted by: Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>
messages send by routers when they deny our traffic, this causes
a timeout when trying to connect to TCP ports/services on a remote
host, which is blocked by routers or firewalls.
rfc1122 (Requirements for Internet Hosts) section 3.2.2.1 actually
requi re that we treat such a message for a TCP session, that we
treat it like if we had recieved a RST.
quote begin.
A Destination Unreachable message that is received MUST be
reported to the transport layer. The transport layer SHOULD
use the information appropriately; for example, see Sections
4.1.3.3, 4.2.3.9, and 4.2.4 below. A transport protocol
that has its own mechanism for notifying the sender that a
port is unreachable (e.g., TCP, which sends RST segments)
MUST nevertheless accept an ICMP Port Unreachable for the
same purpose.
quote end.
I've written a small extension that implement this, it also create
a sysctl "net.inet.tcp.icmp_admin_prohib_like_rst" to control if
this new behaviour is activated.
When it's activated (set to 1) we'll treat a ICMP administratively
prohibited message (icmp type 3 code 9, 10 and 13) for a TCP
sessions, as if we recived a TCP RST, but only if the TCP session
is in SYN_SENT state.
The reason for only reacting when in SYN_SENT state, is that this
will solve the problem, and at the same time minimize the risk of
this being abused.
I suggest that we enable this new behaviour by default, but it
would be a change of current behaviour, so if people prefer to
leave it disabled by default, at least for now, this would be ok
for me, the attached diff actually have the sysctl set to 0 by
default.
PR: 23086
Submitted by: Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>
delete the cloned route that is associated with the connection.
This does not exhaust the routing table memory when the system
is under a SYN flood attack. The route entry is not deleted if there
is any prior information cached in it.
Reviewed by: Peter Wemm,asmodai
better recovery for multiple packet losses in a single window.
The algorithm can be toggled via the sysctl net.inet.tcp.newreno,
which defaults to "on".
Submitted by: Jayanth Vijayaraghavan <jayanth@yahoo-inc.com>
is an application space macro and the applications are supposed to be free
to use it as they please (but cannot). This is consistant with the other
BSD's who made this change quite some time ago. More commits to come.
pr_input() routines prototype is also changed to support IPSEC and IPV6
chained protocol headers.
Reviewed by: freebsd-arch, cvs-committers
Obtained from: KAME project
- eliminate the fast/slow timeout lists for TCP and instead use a
callout entry for each timer.
- increase the TCP timer granularity to HZ
- implement "bad retransmit" recovery, as presented in
"On Estimating End-to-End Network Path Properties", by Allman and Paxson.
Submitted by: jlemon, wollmann
This makes it possible to change the sysctl tree at runtime.
* Change KLD to find and register any sysctl nodes contained in the loaded
file and to unregister them when the file is unloaded.
Reviewed by: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>,
Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> (well they looked at it anyway)
flag means that there is more data to be put into the socket buffer.
Use it in TCP to reduce the interaction between mbuf sizes and the
Nagle algorithm.
Based on: "Justin C. Walker" <justin@apple.com>'s description of Apple's
fix for this problem.
another specialized mbuf type in the process. Also clean up some
of the cruft surrounding IPFW, multicast routing, RSVP, and other
ill-explored corners.
mismatches exposed by this (the prototype for tcp_respond() didn't
match the function definition lexically, and still depends on a
gcc feature to match if ints have more than 32 bits).
Define a parameter which indicates the maximum number of sockets in a
system, and use this to size the zone allocators used for sockets and
for certain PCBs.
Convert PF_LOCAL PCB structures to be type-stable and add a version number.
Define an external format for infomation about socket structures and use
it in several places.
Define a mechanism to get all PF_LOCAL and PF_INET PCB lists through
sysctl(3) without blocking network interrupts for an unreasonable
length of time. This probably still has some bugs and/or race
conditions, but it seems to work well enough on my machines.
It is now possible for `netstat' to get almost all of its information
via the sysctl(3) interface rather than reading kmem (changes to follow).
