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authorWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>2022-05-02 11:46:11 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-06-25 16:16:08 +0300
commitd28e64b1c63eced06aedadcacb0be4997c10c7c1 (patch)
tree055235bc450441402bbb86bcfafd7de6082adcfd
parentdd46a868fcfdf3aac8ffb20b2321e174a0156fb2 (diff)
downloadlinux-d28e64b1c63eced06aedadcacb0be4997c10c7c1.tar.xz
tcp: add small random increments to the source port
commit ca7af0402550f9a0b3316d5f1c30904e42ed257d upstream. Here we're randomly adding between 0 and 7 random increments to the selected source port in order to add some noise in the source port selection that will make the next port less predictable. With the default port range of 32768-60999 this means a worst case reuse scenario of 14116/8=1764 connections between two consecutive uses of the same port, with an average of 14116/4.5=3137. This code was stressed at more than 800000 connections per second to a fixed target with all connections closed by the client using RSTs (worst condition) and only 2 connections failed among 13 billion, despite the hash being reseeded every 10 seconds, indicating a perfectly safe situation. Cc: Moshe Kol <moshe.kol@mail.huji.ac.il> Cc: Yossi Gilad <yossi.gilad@mail.huji.ac.il> Cc: Amit Klein <aksecurity@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c b/net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c
index bf26b7efafbd..0eb6fc6cfa3a 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c
@@ -833,11 +833,12 @@ next_port:
return -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
ok:
- /* If our first attempt found a candidate, skip next candidate
- * in 1/16 of cases to add some noise.
+ /* Here we want to add a little bit of randomness to the next source
+ * port that will be chosen. We use a max() with a random here so that
+ * on low contention the randomness is maximal and on high contention
+ * it may be inexistent.
*/
- if (!i && !(prandom_u32() % 16))
- i = 2;
+ i = max_t(int, i, (prandom_u32() & 7) * 2);
WRITE_ONCE(table_perturb[index], READ_ONCE(table_perturb[index]) + i + 2);
/* Head lock still held and bh's disabled */