netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] ipv6: make fragment identifications less predictable

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Date:	Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:50:48 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Cc:	Fernando Gont <fernando@...t.com.ar>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, security@...nel.org,
	Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@...nel.sg>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] ipv6: make fragment identifications less
 predictable

Le mardi 19 juillet 2011 à 15:56 -0500, Matt Mackall a écrit :
> On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 22:47 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > IPv6 fragment identification generation is way beyond what we use for
> > IPv4 : It uses a single generator. Its not scalable and allows DOS
> > attacks.
> > 
> > Now inetpeer is IPv6 aware, we can use it to provide a more secure and
> > scalable frag ident generator (per destination, instead of system wide)
> 
> This code really needs to get moved out of random.c and into net/. Other
> than that, looks fine to me.

Sure. Can we agree to make this cleanup later ?

I added secure_ipv6_id() right after secure_ip_id() because it sounded
the right place ;)



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