linux/include/net/protocol.h, branch v3.6

ipv6: Early TCP socket demux

2012-07-26T22:50:39Z

This is the IPv6 missing bits for infrastructure added in commit 41063e9dd1195 (ipv4: Early TCP socket demux.) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: Kill early demux method return value.

2012-06-28T05:01:22Z

It's completely unnecessary. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Revert "ipv4: tcp: dont cache unconfirmed intput dst"

2012-06-28T00:05:06Z

This reverts commit c074da2810c118b3812f32d6754bd9ead2f169e7. This change has several unwanted side effects: 1) Sockets will cache the DST_NOCACHE route in sk->sk_rx_dst and we'll thus never create a real cached route. 2) All TCP traffic will use DST_NOCACHE and never use the routing cache at all. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: tcp: dont cache unconfirmed intput dst

2012-06-27T22:34:24Z

DDOS synflood attacks hit badly IP route cache. On typical machines, this cache is allowed to hold up to 8 Millions dst entries, 256 bytes for each, for a total of 2GB of memory. rt_garbage_collect() triggers and tries to cleanup things. Eventually route cache is disabled but machine is under fire and might OOM and crash. This patch exploits the new TCP early demux, to set a nocache boolean in case incoming TCP frame is for a not yet ESTABLISHED or TIMEWAIT socket. This 'nocache' boolean is then used in case dst entry is not found in route cache, to create an unhashed dst entry (DST_NOCACHE) SYN-cookie-ACK sent use a similar mechanism (ipv4: tcp: dont cache output dst for syncookies), so after this patch, a machine is able to absorb a DDOS synflood attack without polluting its IP route cache. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Hans Schillstrom Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: Early TCP socket demux.

2012-06-20T04:22:05Z

Input packet processing for local sockets involves two major demuxes. One for the route and one for the socket. But we can optimize this down to one demux for certain kinds of local sockets. Currently we only do this for established TCP sockets, but it could at least in theory be expanded to other kinds of connections. If a TCP socket is established then it's identity is fully specified. This means that whatever input route was used during the three-way handshake must work equally well for the rest of the connection since the keys will not change. Once we move to established state, we cache the receive packet's input route to use later. Like the existing cached route in sk->sk_dst_cache used for output packets, we have to check for route invalidations using dst->obsolete and dst->ops->check(). Early demux occurs outside of a socket locked section, so when a route invalidation occurs we defer the fixup of sk->sk_rx_dst until we are actually inside of established state packet processing and thus have the socket locked. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

inet: Sanitize inet{,6} protocol demux.

2012-06-20T01:56:21Z

Don't pretend that inet_protos[] and inet6_protos[] are hashes, thay are just a straight arrays. Remove all unnecessary hash masking. Document MAX_INET_PROTOS. Use RAW_HTABLE_SIZE when appropriate. Reported-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)

2011-12-11T23:25:16Z

Instead of testing defined(CONFIG_IPV6) || defined(CONFIG_IPV6_MODULE) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: introduce and use netdev_features_t for device features sets

2011-11-16T22:43:10Z

v2: add couple missing conversions in drivers split unexporting netdev_fix_features() implemented %pNF convert sock::sk_route_(no?)caps Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: change netdev->features to u32

2011-01-24T23:32:47Z

Quoting Ben Hutchings: we presumably won't be defining features that can only be enabled on 64-bit architectures. Occurences found by `grep -r` on net/, drivers/net, include/ [ Move features and vlan_features next to each other in struct netdev, as per Eric Dumazet's suggestion -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: add __rcu annotations to protocol

2010-10-27T18:37:31Z

Add __rcu annotations to : struct net_protocol *inet_protos struct net_protocol *inet6_protos And use appropriate casts to reduce sparse warnings if CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER=y Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller