netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: Generalized TTL Security Mechanism

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Date:	Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:21:11 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Pekka Savola <pekkas@...core.fi>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: Generalized TTL Security Mechanism

Le vendredi 19 mars 2010 à 09:58 +0200, Pekka Savola a écrit :
> 
> > But any application using GTSM should be setting IP_TTL socket
> option
> > to set send TTL. But, not sure if Linux TCP ever sends ICMP
> > for existing sessions at all.
> 
> Thanks, Stephen!  It's nice to see at least one compliant RFC5082 
> implementation ;-)
> 
> Good point that no one should should probably even be sending ICMP 
> messages for TCP sockets, but on receive side the checks are
> important 
> :-)

This requires that any router in the path between the client and server
also respects the MINTTL when sending ICMP. Not sure how practical it
is...

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
index 70df409..a9d3ba5 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
@@ -367,6 +367,9 @@ void tcp_v4_err(struct sk_buff *icmp_skb, u32 info)
 	if (sock_owned_by_user(sk))
 		NET_INC_STATS_BH(net, LINUX_MIB_LOCKDROPPEDICMPS);
 
+	if (iph->ttl < inet_sk(sk)->min_ttl)
+		goto out;
+
 	if (sk->sk_state == TCP_CLOSE)
 		goto out;
 


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