Normally the socket buffers are static (either derived from global
defaults or set with setsockopt) and do not adapt to real network
conditions. Two things happen: a) your socket buffers are too small
and you can't reach the full potential of the network between both
hosts; b) your socket buffers are too big and you waste a lot of
kernel memory for data just sitting around.
With automatic TCP send and receive socket buffers we can start with a
small buffer and quickly grow it in parallel with the TCP congestion
window to match real network conditions.
FreeBSD has a default 32K send socket buffer. This supports a maximal
transfer rate of only slightly more than 2Mbit/s on a 100ms RTT
trans-continental link. Or at 200ms just above 1Mbit/s. With TCP send
buffer auto scaling and the default values below it supports 20Mbit/s
at 100ms and 10Mbit/s at 200ms. That's an improvement of factor 10, or
1000%. For the receive side it looks slightly better with a default of
64K buffer size.
New sysctls are:
net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_auto=1 (enabled)
net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_inc=8192 (8K, step size)
net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_max=262144 (256K, growth limit)
net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_auto=1 (enabled)
net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_inc=16384 (16K, step size)
net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_max=262144 (256K, growth limit)
Tested by: many (on HEAD and RELENG_6)
Approved by: re
MFC after: 1 month
In ip6_sprintf no longer use and return one of eight static buffers
for printing/logging ipv6 addresses.
The caller now has to hand in a sufficiently large buffer as first
argument.
begun with a repo-copy of mac.h to mac_framework.h. sys/mac.h now
contains the userspace and user<->kernel API and definitions, with all
in-kernel interfaces moved to mac_framework.h, which is now included
across most of the kernel instead.
This change is the first step in a larger cleanup and sweep of MAC
Framework interfaces in the kernel, and will not be MFC'd.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: SPARTA
the header field for possible later IPSEC SPD lookup, even
when the kernel is built without 'options INET6'.
PR: kern/57760
MFC after: 1 week
Submitted by: Joachim Schueth
functionality:
- Remove a rwlock aquisition/release per generated syncookie. Locking
is now integrated with the bucket row locking of syncache itself and
syncookies no longer add any additional lock overhead.
- Syncookie secrets are different for and stored per syncache buck row.
Secrets expire after 16 seconds and are reseeded on-demand.
- The computational overhead for syncookie generation and verification
is one MD5 hash computation as before.
- Syncache can be turned off and run with syncookies only by setting the
sysctl net.inet.tcp.syncookies_only=1.
This implementation extends the orginal idea and first implementation
of FreeBSD by using not only the initial sequence number field to store
information but also the timestamp field if present. This way we can
keep track of the entire state we need to know to recreate the session in
its original form. Almost all TCP speakers implement RFC1323 timestamps
these days. For those that do not we still have to live with the known
shortcomings of the ISN only SYN cookies. The use of the timestamp field
causes the timestamps to be randomized if syncookies are enabled.
The idea of SYN cookies is to encode and include all necessary information
about the connection setup state within the SYN-ACK we send back and thus
to get along without keeping any local state until the ACK to the SYN-ACK
arrives (if ever). Everything we need to know should be available from
the information we encoded in the SYN-ACK.
A detailed description of the inner working of the syncookies mechanism
is included in the comments in tcp_syncache.c.
Reviewed by: silby (slightly earlier version)
Sponsored by: TCP/IP Optimization Fundraise 2005
timeouts for TCP and T/TCP connections in the TIME_WAIT
state, and we had two separate timed wait queues for them.
Now that is has gone, the timeout is always 2*MSL again,
and there is no reason to keep two queues (the first was
unused anyway!).
Also, reimplement the remaining queue using a TAILQ (it
was technically impossible before, with two queues).
o add IFCAP_TSO[46] for drivers to announce this capability for IPv4 and IPv6
o add CSUM_TSO flag to mbuf pkthdr csum_flags field
o add tso_segsz field to mbuf pkthdr
o enhance ip_output() packet length check to allow for large TSO packets
o extend tcp_maxmtu[46]() with a flag pointer to pass interface capabilities
o adjust all callers of tcp_maxmtu[46]() accordingly
Discussed on: -current, -net
Sponsored by: TCP/IP Optimization Fundraise 2005
o don't assign remote/local host/port information manually between provided
struct in_conninfo and struct syncache, bcopy() it instead
o rename sc_tsrecent to sc_tsreflect in struct syncache to better capture
the purpose of this field
o rename sc_request_r_scale to sc_requested_r_scale for ditto reasons
o fix IPSEC error case printf's to report correct function name
o in syncache_socket() only transpose enhanced tcp options parameters to
struct tcpcb when the inpcb doesn't has TF_NOOPT set
o in syncache_respond() reorder stack variables
o in syncache_respond() remove bogus KASSERT()
No functional changes.
Sponsored by: TCP/IP Optimization Fundraise 2005
o redefine the parameter 'is_syn' to 'flags', add TO_SYN flag and adjust its
usage accordingly
o update the comments to the tcp_dooptions() invocation in
tcp_input():after_listen to reflect reality
o move the logic checking the echoed timestamp out of tcp_dooptions() to the
only place that uses it next to the invocation described in the previous
item
o adjust parsing of TCPOPT_SACK_PERMITTED to use the same style as the others
o add comments in to struct tcpopt.to_flags #defines
No functional changes.
Sponsored by: TCP/IP Optimization Fundraise 2005
ACK the SYN as required by RFC793, rather than ignoring it. NetBSD
have had a similar change since 1999.
PR: 93236
Submitted by: Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>
MFC after: 1 month
as possible for the syncache_add() case. The syncache timer no longer
aquires the tcpinfo lock and timeout/retransmit runs can happen in
parallel with bucket granularity.
On a P4 the additional locks cause a slight degression of 0.7% in tcp
connections per second. When IP and TCP input are deserialized and
can run in parallel this little overhead can be neglected. The syncookie
handling still leaves room for improvement and its random salts may be
moved to the syncache bucket head structures to remove the second lock
operation currently required for it. However this would be a more
involved change from the way syncookies work at the moment.
Reviewed by: rwatson
Tested by: rwatson, ps (earlier version)
Sponsored by: TCP/IP Optimization Fundraise 2005
reference. For now, we allow the possibility that the in_ppcb
pointer in the inpcb may be NULL if a timewait socket has had its
tcptw structure recycled. This allows tcp_timewait() to
consistently unlock the inpcb.
Reported by: Kazuaki Oda <kaakun at highway dot ne dot jp>
MFC after: 3 months
tcp_timewait(). This corrects a bug (or lack of fixing of a bug)
in tcp_input.c:1.295.
Submitted by: Kazuaki Oda <kaakun at highway dot ne dot jp>
MFC after: 3 months
NULL. We currently do allow this to happen, but may want to remove that
possibility in the future. This case can occur when a socket is left
open after TCP wraps up, and the timewait state is recycled. This will
be cleaned up in the future.
Found by: Kazuaki Oda <kaakun at highway dot ne dot jp>
MFC after: 3 months
casts.
Consistently use intotw() to cast inp_ppcb pointers to struct tcptw *
pointers.
Consistently use intotcpcb() to cast inp_ppcb pointers to struct tcpcb *
pointers.
Don't assign tp to the results to intotcpcb() during variable declation
at the top of functions, as that is before the asserts relating to
locking have been performed. Do this later in the function after
appropriate assertions have run to allow that operation to be conisdered
safe.
MFC after: 3 months
pru_abort(), pru_detach(), and in_pcbdetach():
- Universally support and enforce the invariant that so_pcb is
never NULL, converting dozens of unnecessary NULL checks into
assertions, and eliminating dozens of unnecessary error handling
cases in protocol code.
- In some cases, eliminate unnecessary pcbinfo locking, as it is no
longer required to ensure so_pcb != NULL. For example, the receive
code no longer requires the pcbinfo lock, and the send code only
requires it if building a new connection on an otherwise unconnected
socket triggered via sendto() with an address. This should
significnatly reduce tcbinfo lock contention in the receive and send
cases.
- In order to support the invariant that so_pcb != NULL, it is now
necessary for the TCP code to not discard the tcpcb any time a
connection is dropped, but instead leave the tcpcb until the socket
is shutdown. This case is handled by setting INP_DROPPED, to
substitute for using a NULL so_pcb to indicate that the connection
has been dropped. This requires the inpcb lock, but not the pcbinfo
lock.
- Unlike all other protocols in the tree, TCP may need to retain access
to the socket after the file descriptor has been closed. Set
SS_PROTOREF in tcp_detach() in order to prevent the socket from being
freed, and add a flag, INP_SOCKREF, so that the TCP code knows whether
or not it needs to free the socket when the connection finally does
close. The typical case where this occurs is if close() is called on
a TCP socket before all sent data in the send socket buffer has been
transmitted or acknowledged. If INP_SOCKREF is found when the
connection is dropped, we release the inpcb, tcpcb, and socket instead
of flagging INP_DROPPED.
- Abort and detach protocol switch methods no longer return failures,
nor attempt to free sockets, as the socket layer does this.
- Annotate the existence of a long-standing race in the TCP timer code,
in which timers are stopped but not drained when the socket is freed,
as waiting for drain may lead to deadlocks, or have to occur in a
context where waiting is not permitted. This race has been handled
by testing to see if the tcpcb pointer in the inpcb is NULL (and vice
versa), which is not normally permitted, but may be true of a inpcb
and tcpcb have been freed. Add a counter to test how often this race
has actually occurred, and a large comment for each instance where
we compare potentially freed memory with NULL. This will have to be
fixed in the near future, but requires is to further address how to
handle the timer shutdown shutdown issue.
- Several TCP calls no longer potentially free the passed inpcb/tcpcb,
so no longer need to return a pointer to indicate whether the argument
passed in is still valid.
- Un-macroize debugging and locking setup for various protocol switch
methods for TCP, as it lead to more obscurity, and as locking becomes
more customized to the methods, offers less benefit.
- Assert copyright on tcp_usrreq.c due to significant modifications that
have been made as part of this work.
These changes significantly modify the memory management and connection
logic of our TCP implementation, and are (as such) High Risk Changes,
and likely to contain serious bugs. Please report problems to the
current@ mailing list ASAP, ideally with simple test cases, and
optionally, packet traces.
MFC after: 3 months
right from the beginning and partly clean up the differences in handling
between SYN_SENT and SYN_RCVD (syncache).
Further changes to this code to come. This is a first incremental step
to a general overhaul and streamlining of the TCP code.
PR: kern/15095
PR: kern/92690 (partly)
Reviewed by: qingli (and tested with ANVL)
Sponsored by: TCP/IP Optimization Fundraise 2005
simultaneous open. Both the bug and the patch were verified using the
ANVL test suite.
PR: kern/74935
Submitted by: qingli (before I became committer)
Reviewed by: andre
MFC after: 5 days
threshold. Inflight doesn't make sense on a LAN as it has
trouble figuring out the maximal bandwidth because of the coarse
tick granularity.
The sysctl net.inet.tcp.inflight.rttthresh specifies the threshold
in milliseconds below which inflight will disengage. It defaults
to 10ms.
Tested by: Joao Barros <joao.barros-at-gmail.com>,
Rich Murphey <rich-at-whiteoaklabs.com>
Sponsored by: TCP/IP Optimization Fundraise 2005
This fixes a bug in the previous commit.
Found by: Coverity Prevent(tm)
Coverity ID: CID253
Sponsored by: TCP/IP Optimization Fundraise 2005
MFC after: 3 days
include ip_options.h into all files making use of IP Options functions.
From ip_input.c rev 1.306:
ip_dooptions(struct mbuf *m, int pass)
save_rte(m, option, dst)
ip_srcroute(m0)
ip_stripoptions(m, mopt)
From ip_output.c rev 1.249:
ip_insertoptions(m, opt, phlen)
ip_optcopy(ip, jp)
ip_pcbopts(struct inpcb *inp, int optname, struct mbuf *m)
No functional changes in this commit.
Discussed with: rwatson
Sponsored by: TCP/IP Optimization Fundraise 2005
between sack and a bug in the "bad retransmit recovery" logic. This is
a workaround, the underlying bug will be fixed later.
Submitted by: Mohan Srinivasan, Noritoshi Demizu
TTL a packet must have when received on a socket. All packets with a
lower TTL are silently dropped. Works on already connected/connecting
and listening sockets for RAW/UDP/TCP.
This option is only really useful when set to 255 preventing packets
from outside the directly connected networks reaching local listeners
on sockets.
Allows userland implementation of 'The Generalized TTL Security Mechanism
(GTSM)' according to RFC3682. Examples of such use include the Cisco IOS
BGP implementation command "neighbor ttl-security".
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: TCP/IP Optimization Fundraise 2005
after PAWS checks. The symptom of this is an inconsistency in the cached
sack state, caused by the fact that the sack scoreboard was not being
updated for an ACK handled in the header prediction path.
Found by: Andrey Chernov.
Submitted by: Noritoshi Demizu, Raja Mukerji.
Approved by: re
does not clear tlen and frees the mbuf (leaving th pointing at
freed memory), if the data segment is a complete duplicate.
This change works around that bug. A fix for the tcp_reass() bug
will appear later (that bug is benign for now, as neither th nor
tlen is referenced in tcp_input() after the call to tcp_reass()).
Found by: Pawel Jakub Dawidek.
Submitted by: Raja Mukerji, Noritoshi Demizu.
Approved by: re
The ipfw tables lookup code caches the result of the last query. The
kernel may process multiple packets concurrently, performing several
concurrent table lookups. Due to an insufficient locking, a cached
result can become corrupted that could cause some addresses to be
incorrectly matched against a lookup table.
Submitted by: ru
Reviewed by: csjp, mlaier
Security: CAN-2005-2019
Security: FreeBSD-SA-05:13.ipfw
Correct bzip2 permission race condition vulnerability.
Obtained from: Steve Grubb via RedHat
Security: CAN-2005-0953
Security: FreeBSD-SA-05:14.bzip2
Approved by: obrien
Correct TCP connection stall denial of service vulnerability.
A TCP packets with the SYN flag set is accepted for established
connections, allowing an attacker to overwrite certain TCP options.
Submitted by: Noritoshi Demizu
Reviewed by: andre, Mohan Srinivasan
Security: CAN-2005-2068
Security: FreeBSD-SA-05:15.tcp
Approved by: re (security blanket), cperciva
processing is now done in the ACK processing case.
- Merge tcp_sack_option() and tcp_del_sackholes() into a new function
called tcp_sack_doack().
- Test (SEG.ACK < SND.MAX) before processing the ACK.
Submitted by: Noritoshi Demizu
Reveiewed by: Mohan Srinivasan, Raja Mukerji
Approved by: re
or to compute the total retransmitted bytes in this sack recovery
episode, the scoreboard is traversed. While in sack recovery, this
traversal occurs on every call to tcp_output(), every dupack and
every partial ack. The scoreboard could potentially get quite large,
making this traversal expensive.
This change optimizes this by storing hints (for the next hole to
retransmit and the total retransmitted bytes in this sack recovery
episode) reducing the complexity to find these values from O(n) to
constant time.
The debug code that sanity checks the hints against the computed
value will be removed eventually.
Submitted by: Mohan Srinivasan, Noritoshi Demizu, Raja Mukerji.
in flight in SACK recovery.
Found by: Noritoshi Demizu
Submitted by: Mohan Srinivasan <mohans at yahoo-inc dot com>
Noritoshi Demizu <demizu at dd dot ij4u dot or dot jp>
Raja Mukerji <raja at moselle dot com>
setting ts_recent to an arbitrary value, stopping further
communication between the two hosts.
- If the Echoed Timestamp is greater than the current time,
fall back to the non RFC 1323 RTT calculation.
Submitted by: Raja Mukerji (raja at moselle dot com)
Reviewed by: Noritoshi Demizu, Mohan Srinivasan
a reassembly queue state structure, don't update (receiver) sack
report.
- Similarly, if tcp_drain() is called, freeing up all items on the
reassembly queue, clean the sack report.
Found, Submitted by: Noritoshi Demizu <demizu at dd dot iij4u dot or dot jp>
Reviewed by: Mohan Srinivasan (mohans at yahoo-inc dot com),
Raja Mukerji (raja at moselle dot com).
reported to the sender - in the case where the sender sends data
outside the window (as WinXP does :().
Reported by: Sam Jensen <sam at wand dot net dot nz>
Submitted by: Mohan Srinivasan
Remove the SACK "initburst" sysctl.
- Fix bugs in SACK dupack and partialack handling that can cause
large bursts while in SACK recovery.
Submitted by: Mohan Srinivasan
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.
