From 33cf7c90fe2f97afb1cadaa0cfb782cb9d1b9ee2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:53:14 -0700 Subject: net: add real socket cookies A long standing problem in netlink socket dumps is the use of kernel socket addresses as cookies. 1) It is a security concern. 2) Sockets can be reused quite quickly, so there is no guarantee a cookie is used once and identify a flow. 3) request sock, establish sock, and timewait socks for a given flow have different cookies. Part of our effort to bring better TCP statistics requires to switch to a different allocator. In this patch, I chose to use a per network namespace 64bit generator, and to use it only in the case a socket needs to be dumped to netlink. (This might be refined later if needed) Note that I tried to carry cookies from request sock, to establish sock, then timewait sockets. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Eric Salo Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/net/inet_timewait_sock.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/net/inet_timewait_sock.h') diff --git a/include/net/inet_timewait_sock.h b/include/net/inet_timewait_sock.h index 6c566034e26d..b7ce1003c429 100644 --- a/include/net/inet_timewait_sock.h +++ b/include/net/inet_timewait_sock.h @@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ struct inet_timewait_sock { #define tw_v6_rcv_saddr __tw_common.skc_v6_rcv_saddr #define tw_dport __tw_common.skc_dport #define tw_num __tw_common.skc_num +#define tw_cookie __tw_common.skc_cookie int tw_timeout; volatile unsigned char tw_substate; -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b