]> git.ipfire.org Git - thirdparty/kernel/stable.git/commitdiff
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)
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

index df40137f33dd48c0b23dad1f5cd13c357c91c031..baa4995806d3a34602d1a71982cc0a022e7ebd4c 100644 (file)
@@ -265,6 +265,7 @@ enum
        LINUX_MIB_TCPWANTZEROWINDOWADV,         /* TCPWantZeroWindowAdv */
        LINUX_MIB_TCPSYNRETRANS,                /* TCPSynRetrans */
        LINUX_MIB_TCPORIGDATASENT,              /* TCPOrigDataSent */
+       LINUX_MIB_TCPWQUEUETOOBIG,              /* TCPWqueueTooBig */
        __LINUX_MIB_MAX
 };
 
index ae0af9386f7ccf4cabafbcc8aff6c37309e820ea..14da5171772d46985170e0f2334cac43616a2fd4 100644 (file)
@@ -286,6 +286,7 @@ static const struct snmp_mib snmp4_net_list[] = {
        SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPWantZeroWindowAdv", LINUX_MIB_TCPWANTZEROWINDOWADV),
        SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPSynRetrans", LINUX_MIB_TCPSYNRETRANS),
        SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPOrigDataSent", LINUX_MIB_TCPORIGDATASENT),
+       SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPWqueueTooBig", LINUX_MIB_TCPWQUEUETOOBIG),
        SNMP_MIB_SENTINEL
 };
 
index 2a5c993daa7f2408a67d71ce420d95182e83a173..e760a1ad19567b46f22dde3a525cce91dbd1d7af 100644 (file)
@@ -1090,6 +1090,11 @@ int tcp_fragment(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, u32 len,
        if (nsize < 0)
                nsize = 0;
 
+       if (unlikely((sk->sk_wmem_queued >> 1) > sk->sk_sndbuf)) {
+               NET_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPWQUEUETOOBIG);
+               return -ENOMEM;
+       }
+
        if (skb_unclone(skb, gfp))
                return -ENOMEM;