Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: RFC 5961 5.2 Blind Data Injection Attack Mitigation

From: Eric Dumazet <redacted>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 07:57:11 +0200

From: Eric Dumazet <redacted>

RFC 5961 5.2 [Blind Data Injection Attack].[Mitigation]

  All TCP stacks MAY implement the following mitigation.  TCP stacks
  that implement this mitigation MUST add an additional input check to
  any incoming segment.  The ACK value is considered acceptable only if
  it is in the range of ((SND.UNA - MAX.SND.WND) <= SEG.ACK <=
  SND.NXT).  All incoming segments whose ACK value doesn't satisfy the
  above condition MUST be discarded and an ACK sent back.

Move tcp_send_challenge_ack() before tcp_ack() to avoid a forward
declaration.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <redacted>

Applied.