From c074da2810c118b3812f32d6754bd9ead2f169e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:14:15 +0000 Subject: ipv4: tcp: dont cache unconfirmed intput dst DDOS synflood attacks hit badly IP route cache. On typical machines, this cache is allowed to hold up to 8 Millions dst entries, 256 bytes for each, for a total of 2GB of memory. rt_garbage_collect() triggers and tries to cleanup things. Eventually route cache is disabled but machine is under fire and might OOM and crash. This patch exploits the new TCP early demux, to set a nocache boolean in case incoming TCP frame is for a not yet ESTABLISHED or TIMEWAIT socket. This 'nocache' boolean is then used in case dst entry is not found in route cache, to create an unhashed dst entry (DST_NOCACHE) SYN-cookie-ACK sent use a similar mechanism (ipv4: tcp: dont cache output dst for syncookies), so after this patch, a machine is able to absorb a DDOS synflood attack without polluting its IP route cache. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Hans Schillstrom Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/xfrm4_input.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/ipv4/xfrm4_input.c') diff --git a/net/ipv4/xfrm4_input.c b/net/ipv4/xfrm4_input.c index 06814b6216dc..eee636b191b9 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/xfrm4_input.c +++ b/net/ipv4/xfrm4_input.c @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ static inline int xfrm4_rcv_encap_finish(struct sk_buff *skb) const struct iphdr *iph = ip_hdr(skb); if (ip_route_input_noref(skb, iph->daddr, iph->saddr, - iph->tos, skb->dev)) + iph->tos, skb->dev, false)) goto drop; } return dst_input(skb); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b