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Message-ID: <20201016164909.45d02606@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:49:09 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Keyu Man <kman001@....edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] icmp: randomize the global rate limiter
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 11:42:00 -0700 Eric Dumazet wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>
> Keyu Man reported that the ICMP rate limiter could be used
> by attackers to get useful signal. Details will be provided
> in an upcoming academic publication.
>
> Our solution is to add some noise, so that the attackers
> no longer can get help from the predictable token bucket limiter.
>
> Fixes: 4cdf507d5452 ("icmp: add a global rate limitation")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Reported-by: Keyu Man <kman001@....edu>
Applied, queued up, thank you!
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