netdev - Re: [PATCH] CHOKe flow scheduler (0.9)

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Date:	Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:54:11 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CHOKe flow scheduler (0.9)

Le lundi 17 janvier 2011 à 09:25 -0800, Stephen Hemminger a écrit :

> I rolled in your changes. But there is one more change I want to make.
> The existing flow match based on hash is vulnerable to side-channel DoS attack.
> It is possible for a hostile flow to send packets that match the same
> hash value which would effectively kill a targeted flow.
> 
> The solution is to match based on full source and destination, not hash value.
> Still coding that up.

I see, but you only want to make this full test if (!q->filter_list)  ?

(or precisely only if skb_get_rxhash() was used to get the cookie )





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