linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix race condition when creating child sockets from syncookies

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Date:   Fri, 23 Oct 2020 16:03:27 +0200
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     Ricardo Dias <rdias@...sql.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix race condition when creating child sockets from syncookies

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 1:14 PM Ricardo Dias <rdias@...sql.com> wrote:
>
> When the TCP stack is in SYN flood mode, the server child socket is
> created from the SYN cookie received in a TCP packet with the ACK flag
> set.
>
...

This patch only handles IPv4, unless I am missing something ?

It looks like the fix should be done in inet_ehash_insert(), not
adding yet another helper in TCP.
This would be family generic.

Note that normally, all packets for the same 4-tuple should be handled
by the same cpu,
so this race is quite unlikely to happen in standard setups.