Thread (77 messages) 77 messages, 3 authors, 2021-09-09
STALE1737d REVIEWED: 2 (1M)

[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 51/74] tcp: enable data-less, empty-cookie SYN with TFO_SERVER_COOKIE_NOT_REQD

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-09-09 13:37:32
Also in: lkml, netdev
Subsystem: networking [general], networking [tcp], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Neal Cardwell, Linus Torvalds

From: Luke Hsiao <redacted>

[ Upstream commit e3faa49bcecdfcc80e94dd75709d6acb1a5d89f6 ]

Since the original TFO server code was implemented in commit
168a8f58059a22feb9e9a2dcc1b8053dbbbc12ef ("tcp: TCP Fast Open Server -
main code path") the TFO server code has supported the sysctl bit flag
TFO_SERVER_COOKIE_NOT_REQD. Currently, when the TFO_SERVER_ENABLE and
TFO_SERVER_COOKIE_NOT_REQD sysctl bit flags are set, a server connection
will accept a SYN with N bytes of data (N > 0) that has no TFO cookie,
create a new fast open connection, process the incoming data in the SYN,
and make the connection ready for accepting. After accepting, the
connection is ready for read()/recvmsg() to read the N bytes of data in
the SYN, ready for write()/sendmsg() calls and data transmissions to
transmit data.

This commit changes an edge case in this feature by changing this
behavior to apply to (N >= 0) bytes of data in the SYN rather than only
(N > 0) bytes of data in the SYN. Now, a server will accept a data-less
SYN without a TFO cookie if TFO_SERVER_COOKIE_NOT_REQD is set.

Caveat! While this enables a new kind of TFO (data-less empty-cookie
SYN), some firewall rules setup may not work if they assume such packets
are not legit TFOs and will filter them.

Signed-off-by: Luke Hsiao <redacted>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210816205105.2533289-1-luke.w.hsiao@gmail.com (local)
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen.c
index 2ab371f55525..119d2c2f3b04 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen.c
@@ -342,8 +342,7 @@ struct sock *tcp_try_fastopen(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
-	if (syn_data &&
-	    tcp_fastopen_no_cookie(sk, dst, TFO_SERVER_COOKIE_NOT_REQD))
+	if (tcp_fastopen_no_cookie(sk, dst, TFO_SERVER_COOKIE_NOT_REQD))
 		goto fastopen;
 
 	if (foc->len >= 0 &&  /* Client presents or requests a cookie */
-- 
2.30.2
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