netdev - [PATCH net-next 6/8] net/packet: implement shortcut in tpacket

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Date:   Wed, 12 Jun 2019 09:52:31 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
        Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 6/8] net/packet: implement shortcut in tpacket_rcv()

tpacket_rcv() can be hit under DDOS quite hard, since
it will always grab a socket spinlock, to eventually find
there is no room for an additional packet.

Using tcpdump [1] on a busy host can lead to catastrophic consequences,
because of all cpus spinning on a contended spinlock.

This replicates a similar strategy used in packet_rcv()

[1] Also some applications mistakenly use af_packet socket
bound to ETH_P_ALL only to send packets.
Receive queue is never drained and immediately full.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
---
 net/packet/af_packet.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
index 2d499679811af53886ce0c8a1cdd74cd73107eac..860ca3e6abf5198214612e9acc095530b61dac40 100644
--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
@@ -2193,6 +2193,12 @@ static int tpacket_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
 	if (!res)
 		goto drop_n_restore;
 
+	/* If we are flooded, just give up */
+	if (__packet_rcv_has_room(po, skb) == ROOM_NONE) {
+		atomic_inc(&po->tp_drops);
+		goto drop_n_restore;
+	}
+
 	if (skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL)
 		status |= TP_STATUS_CSUMNOTREADY;
 	else if (skb->pkt_type != PACKET_OUTGOING &&
-- 
2.22.0.rc2.383.gf4fbbf30c2-goog