Commit a94f0f97 authored by Gerrit Renker's avatar Gerrit Renker Committed by David S. Miller

[DCCP]: Rate-limit DCCP-Syncs

This implements a SHOULD from RFC 4340, 7.5.4:
 "To protect against denial-of-service attacks, DCCP implementations SHOULD
  impose a rate limit on DCCP-Syncs sent in response to sequence-invalid packets,
  such as not more than eight DCCP-Syncs per second."

The rate-limit is maintained on a per-socket basis. This is a more stringent
policy than enforcing the rate-limit on a per-source-address basis and
protects against attacks with forged source addresses.

Moreover, the mechanism is deliberately kept simple. In contrast to
xrlim_allow(), bursts of Sync packets in reply to sequence-invalid packets
are not supported.  This foils such attacks where the receipt of a Sync
triggers further sequence-invalid packets. (I have tested this mechanism against
xrlim_allow algorithm for Syncs, permitting bursts just increases the problems.)

In order to keep flexibility, the timeout parameter can be set via sysctl; and
the whole mechanism can even be disabled (which is however not recommended).

The algorithm in this patch has been improved with regard to wrapping issues
thanks to a suggestion by Arnaldo.

Commiter note: Rate limited the step 6 DCCP_WARN too, as it says we're
               sending a sync.
Signed-off-by: default avatarGerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIan McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
parent ee1a1592
......@@ -112,6 +112,11 @@ tx_qlen = 5
The size of the transmit buffer in packets. A value of 0 corresponds
to an unbounded transmit buffer.
sync_ratelimit = 125 ms
The timeout between subsequent DCCP-Sync packets sent in response to
sequence-invalid packets on the same socket (RFC 4340, 7.5.4). The unit
of this parameter is milliseconds; a value of 0 disables rate-limiting.
Notes
=====
......
......@@ -470,6 +470,7 @@ struct dccp_ackvec;
* @dccps_pcrlen - receiver partial checksum coverage (via sockopt)
* @dccps_ndp_count - number of Non Data Packets since last data packet
* @dccps_mss_cache - current value of MSS (path MTU minus header sizes)
* @dccps_rate_last - timestamp for rate-limiting DCCP-Sync (RFC 4340, 7.5.4)
* @dccps_minisock - associated minisock (accessed via dccp_msk)
* @dccps_hc_rx_ackvec - rx half connection ack vector
* @dccps_hc_rx_ccid - CCID used for the receiver (or receiving half-connection)
......@@ -505,6 +506,7 @@ struct dccp_sock {
__u16 dccps_pcrlen;
unsigned long dccps_ndp_count;
__u32 dccps_mss_cache;
unsigned long dccps_rate_last;
struct dccp_minisock dccps_minisock;
struct dccp_ackvec *dccps_hc_rx_ackvec;
struct ccid *dccps_hc_rx_ccid;
......
......@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ extern int sysctl_dccp_feat_ack_ratio;
extern int sysctl_dccp_feat_send_ack_vector;
extern int sysctl_dccp_feat_send_ndp_count;
extern int sysctl_dccp_tx_qlen;
extern int sysctl_dccp_sync_ratelimit;
/*
* 48-bit sequence number arithmetic (signed and unsigned)
......
......@@ -122,6 +122,23 @@ static int dccp_check_seqno(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
(ackno != DCCP_PKT_WITHOUT_ACK_SEQ))
dp->dccps_gar = ackno;
} else {
unsigned long now = jiffies;
/*
* Step 6: Check sequence numbers
* Otherwise,
* If P.type == Reset,
* Send Sync packet acknowledging S.GSR
* Otherwise,
* Send Sync packet acknowledging P.seqno
* Drop packet and return
*
* These Syncs are rate-limited as per RFC 4340, 7.5.4:
* at most 1 / (dccp_sync_rate_limit * HZ) Syncs per second.
*/
if (time_before(now, (dp->dccps_rate_last +
sysctl_dccp_sync_ratelimit)))
return 0;
DCCP_WARN("DCCP: Step 6 failed for %s packet, "
"(LSWL(%llu) <= P.seqno(%llu) <= S.SWH(%llu)) and "
"(P.ackno %s or LAWL(%llu) <= P.ackno(%llu) <= S.AWH(%llu), "
......@@ -132,15 +149,9 @@ static int dccp_check_seqno(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
: "exists",
(unsigned long long) lawl, (unsigned long long) ackno,
(unsigned long long) dp->dccps_awh);
/*
* Step 6: Check sequence numbers
* Otherwise,
* If P.type == Reset,
* Send Sync packet acknowledging S.GSR
* Otherwise,
* Send Sync packet acknowledging P.seqno
* Drop packet and return
*/
dp->dccps_rate_last = now;
if (dh->dccph_type == DCCP_PKT_RESET)
seqno = dp->dccps_gsr;
dccp_send_sync(sk, seqno, DCCP_PKT_SYNC);
......
......@@ -219,6 +219,7 @@ int dccp_init_sock(struct sock *sk, const __u8 ctl_sock_initialized)
sk->sk_write_space = dccp_write_space;
icsk->icsk_sync_mss = dccp_sync_mss;
dp->dccps_mss_cache = 536;
dp->dccps_rate_last = jiffies;
dp->dccps_role = DCCP_ROLE_UNDEFINED;
dp->dccps_service = DCCP_SERVICE_CODE_IS_ABSENT;
dp->dccps_l_ack_ratio = dp->dccps_r_ack_ratio = 1;
......
......@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
#error This file should not be compiled without CONFIG_SYSCTL defined
#endif
/* rate-limit for syncs in reply to sequence-invalid packets; RFC 4340, 7.5.4 */
int sysctl_dccp_sync_ratelimit __read_mostly = HZ / 8;
static struct ctl_table dccp_default_table[] = {
{
.procname = "seq_window",
......@@ -89,6 +92,13 @@ static struct ctl_table dccp_default_table[] = {
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
},
{
.procname = "sync_ratelimit",
.data = &sysctl_dccp_sync_ratelimit,
.maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_dccp_sync_ratelimit),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec_ms_jiffies,
},
{ .ctl_name = 0, }
};
......
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