netdev - [PATCH v2] tcp: restrict net.ipv4.tcp_adv_win

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Message-ID: <20101122225421.GA7372@core2.telecom.by>
Date:	Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:54:21 +0200
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] tcp: restrict net.ipv4.tcp_adv_win_scale (#20312)

tcp_win_from_space() does the following:

      if (sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale <= 0)
              return space >> (-sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale);
      else
              return space - (space >> sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale);

"space" is int.

As per C99 6.5.7 (3) shifting int for 32 or more bits is
undefined behaviour.

Indeed, if sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale is exactly 32,
space >> 32 equals space and function returns 0.

Which means we busyloop in tcp_fixup_rcvbuf().

Restrict net.ipv4.tcp_adv_win_scale to [-31, 31].

Fix https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20312

Steps to reproduce:

      echo 32 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_adv_win_scale
      wget www.kernel.org
      [softlockup]

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
---

 Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt |    1 +
 net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c             |    6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ tcp_adv_win_scale - INTEGER
 	Count buffering overhead as bytes/2^tcp_adv_win_scale
 	(if tcp_adv_win_scale > 0) or bytes-bytes/2^(-tcp_adv_win_scale),
 	if it is <= 0.
+	Possible values are [-31, 31], inclusive.
 	Default: 2
 
 tcp_allowed_congestion_control - STRING
--- a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ static int zero;
 static int tcp_retr1_max = 255;
 static int ip_local_port_range_min[] = { 1, 1 };
 static int ip_local_port_range_max[] = { 65535, 65535 };
+static int tcp_adv_win_scale_min = -31;
+static int tcp_adv_win_scale_max = 31;
 
 /* Update system visible IP port range */
 static void set_local_port_range(int range[2])
@@ -426,7 +428,9 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_table[] = {
 		.data		= &sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale,
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
 		.mode		= 0644,
-		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec
+		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_minmax,
+		.extra1		= &tcp_adv_win_scale_min,
+		.extra2		= &tcp_adv_win_scale_max,
 	},
 	{
 		.procname	= "tcp_tw_reuse",
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