Re: [PATCH] Fix corrupt TCP packets when options space overflows with MD5SIG enabled
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2008-06-02 06:56:52
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2008-06-02 06:56:52
From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 09:40:15 +1000 (EST)
On Sat, 31 May 2008, Adam Langley wrote:quoted
When MD5 signatures are turned on we can end up with syntactically invalid packets with a header length < 20 bytes. This is because tcp_header_size overflows with 12 bytes of timestamp, 20 bytes of signature and > 8 bytes of SACK option. Since we can't fit any SACK blocks in the final 8 bytes of options space, and the MD5 signature is more important, we disable including SACK, or even advertising it, when MD5 is enabled. Signed-off-by: Adam Langley <redacted>Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
After making some minor coding style fixups, I applied this fix, thanks everyone.