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/net_namespace.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/net/net_namespace.h') diff --git a/include/net/net_namespace.h b/include/net/net_namespace.h index 2cb9acb618e9..e086f4030dd2 100644 --- a/include/net/net_namespace.h +++ b/include/net/net_namespace.h @@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ struct net { #endif spinlock_t rules_mod_lock; + atomic64_t cookie_gen; + struct list_head list; /* list of network namespaces */ struct list_head cleanup_list; /* namespaces on death row */ struct list_head exit_list; /* Use only net_mutex */ -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b