[DCCP]: Rate-limit DCCP-Syncs
This implements a SHOULD from RFC 4340, 7.5.4: "To protect against denial-of-service attacks, DCCP implementations SHOULD impose a rate limit on DCCP-Syncs sent in response to sequence-invalid packets, such as not more than eight DCCP-Syncs per second." The rate-limit is maintained on a per-socket basis. This is a more stringent policy than enforcing the rate-limit on a per-source-address basis and protects against attacks with forged source addresses. Moreover, the mechanism is deliberately kept simple. In contrast to xrlim_allow(), bursts of Sync packets in reply to sequence-invalid packets are not supported. This foils such attacks where the receipt of a Sync triggers further sequence-invalid packets. (I have tested this mechanism against xrlim_allow algorithm for Syncs, permitting bursts just increases the problems.) In order to keep flexibility, the timeout parameter can be set via sysctl; and the whole mechanism can even be disabled (which is however not recommended). The algorithm in this patch has been improved with regard to wrapping issues thanks to a suggestion by Arnaldo. Commiter note: Rate limited the step 6 DCCP_WARN too, as it says we're sending a sync. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
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#error This file should not be compiled without CONFIG_SYSCTL defined
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#endif
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/* rate-limit for syncs in reply to sequence-invalid packets; RFC 4340, 7.5.4 */
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int sysctl_dccp_sync_ratelimit __read_mostly = HZ / 8;
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static struct ctl_table dccp_default_table[] = {
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{
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.procname = "seq_window",
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@@ -89,6 +92,13 @@ static struct ctl_table dccp_default_table[] = {
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.mode = 0644,
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.proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
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},
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{
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.procname = "sync_ratelimit",
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.data = &sysctl_dccp_sync_ratelimit,
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.maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_dccp_sync_ratelimit),
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.mode = 0644,
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.proc_handler = proc_dointvec_ms_jiffies,
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},
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{ .ctl_name = 0, }
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};
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