linux-kernel - [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 4/5] tcp: configurable source port perturb table size

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Message-Id: <20221123124540.266772-4-sashal@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 23 Nov 2022 07:45:36 -0500
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Gleb Mazovetskiy <glex.spb@...il.com>,
        Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
        dsahern@...nel.org, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org,
        pabeni@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 4/5] tcp: configurable source port perturb table size

From: Gleb Mazovetskiy <glex.spb@...il.com>

[ Upstream commit aeac4ec8f46d610a10adbaeff5e2edf6a88ffc62 ]

On embedded systems with little memory and no relevant
security concerns, it is beneficial to reduce the size
of the table.

Reducing the size from 2^16 to 2^8 saves 255 KiB
of kernel RAM.

Makes the table size configurable as an expert option.

The size was previously increased from 2^8 to 2^16
in commit 4c2c8f03a5ab ("tcp: increase source port perturb table to
2^16").

Signed-off-by: Gleb Mazovetskiy <glex.spb@...il.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 net/ipv4/Kconfig           | 10 ++++++++++
 net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c | 10 +++++-----
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/Kconfig b/net/ipv4/Kconfig
index 4d265d4a0dbe..29be5bcbe7ac 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/Kconfig
+++ b/net/ipv4/Kconfig
@@ -371,6 +371,16 @@ config INET_IPCOMP
 
 	  If unsure, say Y.
 
+config INET_TABLE_PERTURB_ORDER
+	int "INET: Source port perturbation table size (as power of 2)" if EXPERT
+	default 16
+	help
+	  Source port perturbation table size (as power of 2) for
+	  RFC 6056 3.3.4.  Algorithm 4: Double-Hash Port Selection Algorithm.
+
+	  The default is almost always what you want.
+	  Only change this if you know what you are doing.
+
 config INET_XFRM_TUNNEL
 	tristate
 	select INET_TUNNEL
diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c b/net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c
index db47e1c407d9..9958850b6cee 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c
@@ -541,13 +541,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(inet_unhash);
  * Note that we use 32bit integers (vs RFC 'short integers')
  * because 2^16 is not a multiple of num_ephemeral and this
  * property might be used by clever attacker.
+ *
  * RFC claims using TABLE_LENGTH=10 buckets gives an improvement, though
- * attacks were since demonstrated, thus we use 65536 instead to really
- * give more isolation and privacy, at the expense of 256kB of kernel
- * memory.
+ * attacks were since demonstrated, thus we use 65536 by default instead
+ * to really give more isolation and privacy, at the expense of 256kB
+ * of kernel memory.
  */
-#define INET_TABLE_PERTURB_SHIFT 16
-#define INET_TABLE_PERTURB_SIZE (1 << INET_TABLE_PERTURB_SHIFT)
+#define INET_TABLE_PERTURB_SIZE (1 << CONFIG_INET_TABLE_PERTURB_ORDER)
 static u32 *table_perturb;
 
 int __inet_hash_connect(struct inet_timewait_death_row *death_row,
-- 
2.35.1