that the RFC 793 specification for accepting RST packets should be
following. When followed, this makes one vulnerable to the attacks
described in "slipping in the window", but it may be necessary in
some odd circumstances.
cases for tcp_input():
While it is true that the pcbinfo lock provides a pseudo-reference to
inpcbs, both the inpcb and pcbinfo locks are required to free an
un-referenced inpcb. As such, we can release the pcbinfo lock as
long as the inpcb remains locked with the confidence that it will not
be garbage-collected. This leads to a less conservative locking
strategy that should reduce contention on the TCP pcbinfo lock.
Discussed with: sam
pointer updates: test available space while holding the socket buffer
mutex, and continue to hold until until the pointer update has been
performed.
MFC after: 2 weeks
window was 0 bytes in size. This may have been the cause of unsolved
"connection not closing" reports over the years.
Thanks to Michiel Boland for providing the fix and providing a concise
test program for the problem.
Submitted by: Michiel Boland
MFC after: 2 weeks
contents of the tcpcb are read and modified in volume.
In tcp_input(), replace th comparison with 0 with a comparison with
NULL.
At the 'findpcb', 'dropafterack', and 'dropwithreset' labels in
tcp_input(), assert 'headlocked'. Try to improve consistency between
various assertions regarding headlocked to be more informative.
MFC after: 2 weeks
structure, so assert the inpcb lock associated with the tcptw.
Also assert the tcbinfo lock, as tcp_timewait() may call
tcp_twclose() or tcp_2msl_rest(), which require it. Since
tcp_timewait() is already called with that lock from tcp_input(),
this doesn't change current locking, merely documents reasons for
it.
In tcp_twstart(), assert the tcbinfo lock, as tcp_timer_2msl_rest()
is called, which requires that lock.
In tcp_twclose(), assert the tcbinfo lock, as tcp_timer_2msl_stop()
is called, which requires that lock.
Document the locking strategy for the time wait queues in tcp_timer.c,
which consists of protecting the time wait queues in the same manner
as the tcbinfo structure (using the tcbinfo lock).
In tcp_timer_2msl_reset(), assert the tcbinfo lock, as the time wait
queues are modified.
In tcp_timer_2msl_stop(), assert the tcbinfo lock, as the time wait
queues may be modified.
In tcp_timer_2msl_tw(), assert the tcbinfo lock, as the time wait
queues may be modified.
MFC after: 2 weeks
retain the pcbinfo lock until we're done using a pcb in the in-bound
path, as the pcbinfo lock acts as a pseuo-reference to prevent the pcb
from potentially being recycled. Clean up assertions and make sure to
assert that the pcbinfo is locked at the head of code subsections where
it is needed. Free the mbuf at the end of tcp_input after releasing
any held locks to reduce the time the locks are held.
MFC after: 3 weeks
A complete rationale and discussion is given in this message
and the resulting discussion:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4177C8AD.6060706
Note that this commit removes only the functional part of T/TCP
from the tcp_* related functions in the kernel. Other features
introduced with RFC1644 are left intact (socket layer changes,
sendmsg(2) on connection oriented protocols) and are meant to
be reused by a simpler and less intrusive reimplemention of the
previous T/TCP functionality.
Discussed on: -arch
to control the packets injected while in sack recovery (for both
retransmissions and new data).
- Cleanups to the sack codepaths in tcp_output.c and tcp_sack.c.
- Add a new sysctl (net.inet.tcp.sack.initburst) that controls the
number of sack retransmissions done upon initiation of sack recovery.
Submitted by: Mohan Srinivasan <mohans@yahoo-inc.com>
and preserves the ipfw ABI. The ipfw core packet inspection and filtering
functions have not been changed, only how ipfw is invoked is different.
However there are many changes how ipfw is and its add-on's are handled:
In general ipfw is now called through the PFIL_HOOKS and most associated
magic, that was in ip_input() or ip_output() previously, is now done in
ipfw_check_[in|out]() in the ipfw PFIL handler.
IPDIVERT is entirely handled within the ipfw PFIL handlers. A packet to
be diverted is checked if it is fragmented, if yes, ip_reass() gets in for
reassembly. If not, or all fragments arrived and the packet is complete,
divert_packet is called directly. For 'tee' no reassembly attempt is made
and a copy of the packet is sent to the divert socket unmodified. The
original packet continues its way through ip_input/output().
ipfw 'forward' is done via m_tag's. The ipfw PFIL handlers tag the packet
with the new destination sockaddr_in. A check if the new destination is a
local IP address is made and the m_flags are set appropriately. ip_input()
and ip_output() have some more work to do here. For ip_input() the m_flags
are checked and a packet for us is directly sent to the 'ours' section for
further processing. Destination changes on the input path are only tagged
and the 'srcrt' flag to ip_forward() is set to disable destination checks
and ICMP replies at this stage. The tag is going to be handled on output.
ip_output() again checks for m_flags and the 'ours' tag. If found, the
packet will be dropped back to the IP netisr where it is going to be picked
up by ip_input() again and the directly sent to the 'ours' section. When
only the destination changes, the route's 'dst' is overwritten with the
new destination from the forward m_tag. Then it jumps back at the route
lookup again and skips the firewall check because it has been marked with
M_SKIP_FIREWALL. ipfw 'forward' has to be compiled into the kernel with
'option IPFIREWALL_FORWARD' to enable it.
DUMMYNET is entirely handled within the ipfw PFIL handlers. A packet for
a dummynet pipe or queue is directly sent to dummynet_io(). Dummynet will
then inject it back into ip_input/ip_output() after it has served its time.
Dummynet packets are tagged and will continue from the next rule when they
hit the ipfw PFIL handlers again after re-injection.
BRIDGING and IPFW_ETHER are not changed yet and use ipfw_chk() directly as
they did before. Later this will be changed to dedicated ETHER PFIL_HOOKS.
More detailed changes to the code:
conf/files
Add netinet/ip_fw_pfil.c.
conf/options
Add IPFIREWALL_FORWARD option.
modules/ipfw/Makefile
Add ip_fw_pfil.c.
net/bridge.c
Disable PFIL_HOOKS if ipfw for bridging is active. Bridging ipfw
is still directly invoked to handle layer2 headers and packets would
get a double ipfw when run through PFIL_HOOKS as well.
netinet/ip_divert.c
Removed divert_clone() function. It is no longer used.
netinet/ip_dummynet.[ch]
Neither the route 'ro' nor the destination 'dst' need to be stored
while in dummynet transit. Structure members and associated macros
are removed.
netinet/ip_fastfwd.c
Removed all direct ipfw handling code and replace it with the new
'ipfw forward' handling code.
netinet/ip_fw.h
Removed 'ro' and 'dst' from struct ip_fw_args.
netinet/ip_fw2.c
(Re)moved some global variables and the module handling.
netinet/ip_fw_pfil.c
New file containing the ipfw PFIL handlers and module initialization.
netinet/ip_input.c
Removed all direct ipfw handling code and replace it with the new
'ipfw forward' handling code. ip_forward() does not longer require
the 'next_hop' struct sockaddr_in argument. Disable early checks
if 'srcrt' is set.
netinet/ip_output.c
Removed all direct ipfw handling code and replace it with the new
'ipfw forward' handling code.
netinet/ip_var.h
Add ip_reass() as general function. (Used from ipfw PFIL handlers
for IPDIVERT.)
netinet/raw_ip.c
Directly check if ipfw and dummynet control pointers are active.
netinet/tcp_input.c
Rework the 'ipfw forward' to local code to work with the new way of
forward tags.
netinet/tcp_sack.c
Remove include 'opt_ipfw.h' which is not needed here.
sys/mbuf.h
Remove m_claim_next() macro which was exclusively for ipfw 'forward'
and is no longer needed.
Approved by: re (scottl)
- Trailing tab/space cleanup
- Remove spurious spaces between or before tabs
This change avoids touching files that Andre likely has in his working
set for PFIL hooks changes for IPFW/DUMMYNET.
Approved by: re (scottl)
Submitted by: Xin LI <delphij@frontfree.net>
Fix this problem by separating out the SACK and the newreno cases. Also, check
if we are in FASTRECOVERY for the sack case and if so, turn off dupacks.
Fix an issue where the congestion window was not being incremented by ssthresh.
Thanks to Mohan Srinivasan for finding this problem.
associated with performing a wakeup on the socket buffer:
- When performing an sbappend*() followed by a so[rw]wakeup(), explicitly
acquire the socket buffer lock and use the _locked() variants of both
calls. Note that the _locked() sowakeup() versions unlock the mutex on
return. This is done in uipc_send(), divert_packet(), mroute
socket_send(), raw_append(), tcp_reass(), tcp_input(), and udp_append().
- When the socket buffer lock is dropped before a sowakeup(), remove the
explicit unlock and use the _locked() sowakeup() variant. This is done
in soisdisconnecting(), soisdisconnected() when setting the can't send/
receive flags and dropping data, and in uipc_rcvd() which adjusting
back-pressure on the sockets.
For UNIX domain sockets running mpsafe with a contention-intensive SMP
mysql benchmark, this results in a 1.6% query rate improvement due to
reduce mutex costs.
locking in tcp_input() for TCP packets with urgent data pointers to
hold the socket buffer lock across testing and updating oobmark
from just protecting sb_state.
Update socket locking annotations
the socket buffer having its limits adjusted. sbreserve() now acquires
the lock before calling sbreserve_locked(). In soreserve(), acquire
socket buffer locks across read-modify-writes of socket buffer fields,
and calls into sbreserve/sbrelease; make sure to acquire in keeping
with the socket buffer lock order. In tcp_mss(), acquire the socket
buffer lock in the calling context so that we have atomic read-modify
-write on buffer sizes.
originated on RELENG_4 and was ported to -CURRENT.
The scoreboarding code was obtained from OpenBSD, and many
of the remaining changes were inspired by OpenBSD, but not
taken directly from there.
You can enable/disable sack using net.inet.tcp.do_sack. You can
also limit the number of sack holes that all senders can have in
the scoreboard with net.inet.tcp.sackhole_limit.
Reviewed by: gnn
Obtained from: Yahoo! (Mohan Srinivasan, Jayanth Vijayaraghavan)
flags relating to several aspects of socket functionality. This change
breaks out several bits relating to send and receive operation into a
new per-socket buffer field, sb_state, in order to facilitate locking.
This is required because, in order to provide more granular locking of
sockets, different state fields have different locking properties. The
following fields are moved to sb_state:
SS_CANTRCVMORE (so_state)
SS_CANTSENDMORE (so_state)
SS_RCVATMARK (so_state)
Rename respectively to:
SBS_CANTRCVMORE (so_rcv.sb_state)
SBS_CANTSENDMORE (so_snd.sb_state)
SBS_RCVATMARK (so_rcv.sb_state)
This facilitates locking by isolating fields to be located with other
identically locked fields, and permits greater granularity in socket
locking by avoiding storing fields with different locking semantics in
the same short (avoiding locking conflicts). In the future, we may
wish to coallesce sb_state and sb_flags; for the time being I leave
them separate and there is no additional memory overhead due to the
packing/alignment of shorts in the socket buffer structure.
SOCK_LOCK(so):
- Hold socket lock over calls to MAC entry points reading or
manipulating socket labels.
- Assert socket lock in MAC entry point implementations.
- When externalizing the socket label, first make a thread-local
copy while holding the socket lock, then release the socket lock
to externalize to userspace.
uncommitted):
Rename ip_claim_next_hop() to m_claim_next_hop(), give it an extra arg
(the type of tag to claim) and push it out of ip_var.h into mbuf.h
alongside all of the other macros that work ok mbuf's and tag's.
possible while maintaining compatibility with the widest range of TCP stacks.
The algorithm is as follows:
---
For connections in the ESTABLISHED state, only resets with
sequence numbers exactly matching last_ack_sent will cause a reset,
all other segments will be silently dropped.
For connections in all other states, a reset anywhere in the window
will cause the connection to be reset. All other segments will be
silently dropped.
---
The necessity of accepting all in-window resets was discovered
by jayanth and jlemon, both of whom have seen TCP stacks that
will respond to FIN-ACK packets with resets not meeting the
strict last_ack_sent check.
Idea by: Darren Reed
Reviewed by: truckman, jlemon, others(?)
from tcp_hostcache would have overridden a (now) lower MTU of
an interface or route that changed since first PMTU discovery.
The bug would have caused TCP to redo the PMTU discovery when
not strictly necessary.
Make a comment about already pre-initialized default values
more clear.
Reviewed by: sam
amount of segments it will hold.
The following tuneables and sysctls control the behaviour of the tcp
segment reassembly queue:
net.inet.tcp.reass.maxsegments (loader tuneable)
specifies the maximum number of segments all tcp reassemly queues can
hold (defaults to 1/16 of nmbclusters).
net.inet.tcp.reass.maxqlen
specifies the maximum number of segments any individual tcp session queue
can hold (defaults to 48).
net.inet.tcp.reass.cursegments (readonly)
counts the number of segments currently in all reassembly queues.
net.inet.tcp.reass.overflows (readonly)
counts how often either the global or local queue limit has been reached.
Tested by: bms, silby
Reviewed by: bms, silby
them mostly with packet tags (one case is handled by using an mbuf flag
since the linkage between "caller" and "callee" is direct and there's no
need to incur the overhead of a packet tag).
This is (mostly) work from: sam
Silence from: -arch
Approved by: bms(mentor), sam, rwatson
This is the first of two commits; bringing in the kernel support first.
This can be enabled by compiling a kernel with options TCP_SIGNATURE
and FAST_IPSEC.
For the uninitiated, this is a TCP option which provides for a means of
authenticating TCP sessions which came into being before IPSEC. It is
still relevant today, however, as it is used by many commercial router
vendors, particularly with BGP, and as such has become a requirement for
interconnect at many major Internet points of presence.
Several parts of the TCP and IP headers, including the segment payload,
are digested with MD5, including a shared secret. The PF_KEY interface
is used to manage the secrets using security associations in the SADB.
There is a limitation here in that as there is no way to map a TCP flow
per-port back to an SPI without polluting tcpcb or using the SPD; the
code to do the latter is unstable at this time. Therefore this code only
supports per-host keying granularity.
Whilst FAST_IPSEC is mutually exclusive with KAME IPSEC (and thus IPv6),
TCP_SIGNATURE applies only to IPv4. For the vast majority of prospective
users of this feature, this will not pose any problem.
This implementation is output-only; that is, the option is honoured when
responding to a host initiating a TCP session, but no effort is made
[yet] to authenticate inbound traffic. This is, however, sufficient to
interwork with Cisco equipment.
Tested with a Cisco 2501 running IOS 12.0(27), and Quagga 0.96.4 with
local patches. Patches for tcpdump to validate TCP-MD5 sessions are also
available from me upon request.
Sponsored by: sentex.net
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
rfc3042 Limited retransmit
rfc3390 Increasing TCP's initial congestion Window
inflight TCP inflight bandwidth limiting
All my production server have it enabled and there have been no
issues. I am confident about having them on by default and it gives
us better overall TCP performance.
Reviewed by: sam (mentor)
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)
