linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.18 045/121] net: move somaxconn init from sysctl code

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Date:   Wed, 11 Apr 2018 20:35:48 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Roman Kapl <roman.kapl@...go.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.18 045/121] net: move somaxconn init from sysctl code

3.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Roman Kapl <roman.kapl@...go.com>


[ Upstream commit 7c3f1875c66fbc19762760097cabc91849ea0bbb ]

The default value for somaxconn is set in sysctl_core_net_init(), but this
function is not called when kernel is configured without CONFIG_SYSCTL.

This results in the kernel not being able to accept TCP connections,
because the backlog has zero size. Usually, the user ends up with:
"TCP: request_sock_TCP: Possible SYN flooding on port 7. Dropping request.  Check SNMP counters."
If SYN cookies are not enabled the connection is rejected.

Before ef547f2ac16 (tcp: remove max_qlen_log), the effects were less
severe, because the backlog was always at least eight slots long.

Signed-off-by: Roman Kapl <roman.kapl@...go.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 net/core/net_namespace.c   |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
 net/core/sysctl_net_core.c |    2 --
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/core/net_namespace.c
+++ b/net/core/net_namespace.c
@@ -188,6 +188,25 @@ out_undo:
 	goto out;
 }
 
+static int __net_init net_defaults_init_net(struct net *net)
+{
+	net->core.sysctl_somaxconn = SOMAXCONN;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static struct pernet_operations net_defaults_ops = {
+	.init = net_defaults_init_net,
+};
+
+static __init int net_defaults_init(void)
+{
+	if (register_pernet_subsys(&net_defaults_ops))
+		panic("Cannot initialize net default settings");
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+core_initcall(net_defaults_init);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS
 static struct kmem_cache *net_cachep;
--- a/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c
+++ b/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c
@@ -395,8 +395,6 @@ static __net_init int sysctl_core_net_in
 {
 	struct ctl_table *tbl;
 
-	net->core.sysctl_somaxconn = SOMAXCONN;
-
 	tbl = netns_core_table;
 	if (!net_eq(net, &init_net)) {
 		tbl = kmemdup(tbl, sizeof(netns_core_table), GFP_KERNEL);