netdev - Re: [PATCH net v4] net: Update window_clamp if SOCK

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Message-ID: <CANn89i+ABLMJTEKat=9=qujNwe0BFavphzqYc1CQGtrdkwUnXg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 9 Nov 2020 18:28:53 +0100
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     Mao Wenan <wenan.mao@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v4] net: Update window_clamp if SOCK_RCVBUF is set

On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 6:18 PM Mao Wenan <wenan.mao@...ux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>
> When net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies=1 and syn flood is happened,
> cookie_v4_check or cookie_v6_check tries to redo what
> tcp_v4_send_synack or tcp_v6_send_synack did,
> rsk_window_clamp will be changed if SOCK_RCVBUF is set,
> which will make rcv_wscale is different, the client
> still operates with initial window scale and can overshot
> granted window, the client use the initial scale but local
> server use new scale to advertise window value, and session
> work abnormally.
>
> Fixes: e88c64f0a425 ("tcp: allow effective reduction of TCP's rcv-buffer via setsockopt")
> Signed-off-by: Mao Wenan <wenan.mao@...ux.alibaba.com>
> ---
>  v4: change fixes tag format, and delay the actual call to
>  tcp_full_space().
>  v3: add local variable full_space, add fixes tag.
>  v2: fix for ipv6.
>  net/ipv4/syncookies.c | 8 +++++++-
>  net/ipv6/syncookies.c | 9 ++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/syncookies.c b/net/ipv4/syncookies.c
> index 6ac473b..8784e1f 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/syncookies.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/syncookies.c
> @@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ struct sock *cookie_v4_check(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
>         struct inet_request_sock *ireq;
>         struct tcp_request_sock *treq;
>         struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
> +       int full_space;

SGTM. although you could have avoided adding a variable breaking the almost
correct reverse Christmas tree that some of us prefer.

Something like this would look better :

diff --git a/net/ipv4/syncookies.c b/net/ipv4/syncookies.c
index 6ac473b47f30d4d5e5e9455424b1a91d84e649ee..78af720f3e2c6dcdc7298178c5d2f02f0e425e04
100644
--- a/net/ipv4/syncookies.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/syncookies.c
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ struct sock *cookie_v4_check(struct sock *sk,
struct sk_buff *skb)
        __u32 cookie = ntohl(th->ack_seq) - 1;
        struct sock *ret = sk;
        struct request_sock *req;
-       int mss;
+       int full_space, mss;
        struct rtable *rt;
        __u8 rcv_wscale;
        struct flowi4 fl4;