netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv4: tcp: send zero IPID for RST and ACK sent in SYN-RECV and TIME-WAIT state

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Date:   Wed, 22 Aug 2018 21:43:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     edumazet@...gle.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, alexandg@...unm.edu, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv4: tcp: send zero IPID for RST and ACK sent in
 SYN-RECV and TIME-WAIT state

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 13:30:45 -0700

> tcp uses per-cpu (and per namespace) sockets (net->ipv4.tcp_sk) internally
> to send some control packets.
> 
> 1) RST packets, through tcp_v4_send_reset()
> 2) ACK packets in SYN-RECV and TIME-WAIT state, through tcp_v4_send_ack()
> 
> These packets assert IP_DF, and also use the hashed IP ident generator
> to provide an IPv4 ID number.
> 
> Geoff Alexander reported this could be used to build off-path attacks.
> 
> These packets should not be fragmented, since their size is smaller than
> IPV4_MIN_MTU. Only some tunneled paths could eventually have to fragment,
> regardless of inner IPID.
> 
> We really can use zero IPID, to address the flaw, and as a bonus,
> avoid a couple of atomic operations in ip_idents_reserve()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Reported-by: Geoff Alexander <alexandg@...unm.edu>
> Tested-by: Geoff Alexander <alexandg@...unm.edu>

Applied and queued up for -stable.