Commit 6547a221 authored by Florian Westphal's avatar Florian Westphal Committed by Pablo Neira Ayuso

netfilter: nf_conntrack: avoid large timeout for mid-stream pickup

When loose tracking is enabled (default), non-syn packets cause
creation of new conntracks in established state with default timeout for
established state (5 days).  This causes the table to fill up with UNREPLIED
when the 'new ack' packet happened to be the last-ack of a previous,
already timed-out connection.

Consider:

A 192.168.x.52792 > 10.184.y.80: F, 426:426(0) ack 9237 win 255
B 10.184.y.80 > 192.168.x.52792: ., ack 427 win 123
<61 second pause>
C 10.184.y.80 > 192.168.x.52792: F, 9237:9237(0) ack 427 win 123
D 192.168.x.52792 > 10.184.y.80: ., ack 9238 win 255

B moves conntrack to CLOSE_WAIT and will kill it after 60 second timeout,
C is ignored (FIN set), but last packet (D) causes new ct with 5-days timeout.

Use UNACK timeout (5 minutes) instead to get rid of these entries sooner
when in ESTABLISHED state without having seen traffic in both directions.
Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Acked-by: default avatarJozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
parent 130ffbc2
......@@ -1043,6 +1043,12 @@ static int tcp_packet(struct nf_conn *ct,
nf_ct_kill_acct(ct, ctinfo, skb);
return NF_ACCEPT;
}
/* ESTABLISHED without SEEN_REPLY, i.e. mid-connection
* pickup with loose=1. Avoid large ESTABLISHED timeout.
*/
if (new_state == TCP_CONNTRACK_ESTABLISHED &&
timeout > timeouts[TCP_CONNTRACK_UNACK])
timeout = timeouts[TCP_CONNTRACK_UNACK];
} else if (!test_bit(IPS_ASSURED_BIT, &ct->status)
&& (old_state == TCP_CONNTRACK_SYN_RECV
|| old_state == TCP_CONNTRACK_ESTABLISHED)
......
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