netdev - [RFC] tcp demux used to signal ip_route_input

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:19:13 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [RFC] tcp demux used to signal ip_route_input_noref to not cache
 dst

In case tcp_v{4|6}_early_demux() doesnt find an ESTABLISHED socket, and
SYN flag is set, and an "atomic_t listener_under_synflood" counter is
not 0, we could :

- instruct make ip_rcv_finish() to not cache the input dst into route
cache (if dst is not found in the hash table)

This would make synflood attacks having minimal impact on route cache

(We did this for the output dst of SYN-cookie-ACK messages)



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