From 0c24604b68fc7810d429d6c3657b6f148270e528 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 01:41:30 +0000 Subject: tcp: implement RFC 5961 4.2 Implement the RFC 5691 mitigation against Blind Reset attack using SYN bit. Section 4.2 of RFC 5961 advises to send a Challenge ACK and drop incoming packet, instead of resetting the session. Add a new SNMP counter to count number of challenge acks sent in response to SYN packets. (netstat -s | grep TCPSYNChallenge) Remove obsolete TCPAbortOnSyn, since we no longer abort a TCP session because of a SYN flag. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Kiran Kumar Kella Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/proc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/ipv4/proc.c') diff --git a/net/ipv4/proc.c b/net/ipv4/proc.c index 3e8e78f12a38..2a5240b2ea61 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/proc.c +++ b/net/ipv4/proc.c @@ -232,7 +232,6 @@ static const struct snmp_mib snmp4_net_list[] = { SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPDSACKOfoSent", LINUX_MIB_TCPDSACKOFOSENT), SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPDSACKRecv", LINUX_MIB_TCPDSACKRECV), SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPDSACKOfoRecv", LINUX_MIB_TCPDSACKOFORECV), - SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPAbortOnSyn", LINUX_MIB_TCPABORTONSYN), SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPAbortOnData", LINUX_MIB_TCPABORTONDATA), SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPAbortOnClose", LINUX_MIB_TCPABORTONCLOSE), SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPAbortOnMemory", LINUX_MIB_TCPABORTONMEMORY), @@ -262,6 +261,7 @@ static const struct snmp_mib snmp4_net_list[] = { SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPOFODrop", LINUX_MIB_TCPOFODROP), SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPOFOMerge", LINUX_MIB_TCPOFOMERGE), SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPChallengeACK", LINUX_MIB_TCPCHALLENGEACK), + SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPSYNChallenge", LINUX_MIB_TCPSYNCHALLENGE), SNMP_MIB_SENTINEL }; -- cgit