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tcp: tcp_fragment() should apply sane memory limits
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Sat, 18 May 2019 12:12:05 +0000 (05:12 -0700)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Thu, 20 Jun 2019 17:11:28 +0000 (18:11 +0100)
commitdc97a907bc76b71c08e7e99a5b1b30ef4d5e4a85
tree42592e3d830a9618386625fc5c22c3dc7c3e781c
parentef27e3c531782ec8213108e11e5515f9724303c7
tcp: tcp_fragment() should apply sane memory limits

commit f070ef2ac66716357066b683fb0baf55f8191a2e upstream.

Jonathan Looney reported that a malicious peer can force a sender
to fragment its retransmit queue into tiny skbs, inflating memory
usage and/or overflow 32bit counters.

TCP allows an application to queue up to sk_sndbuf bytes,
so we need to give some allowance for non malicious splitting
of retransmit queue.

A new SNMP counter is added to monitor how many times TCP
did not allow to split an skb if the allowance was exceeded.

Note that this counter might increase in the case applications
use SO_SNDBUF socket option to lower sk_sndbuf.

CVE-2019-11478 : tcp_fragment, prevent fragmenting a packet when the
socket is already using more than half the allowed space

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Jonathan Looney <jtl@netflix.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Cc: Bruce Curtis <brucec@netflix.com>
Cc: Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[Salvatore Bonaccorso: Adjust context for backport to 4.9.168]
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
include/uapi/linux/snmp.h
net/ipv4/proc.c
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c