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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2019-05-18 05:12:05 -0700
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2019-06-20 18:11:28 +0100
commitdc97a907bc76b71c08e7e99a5b1b30ef4d5e4a85 (patch)
tree42592e3d830a9618386625fc5c22c3dc7c3e781c
parentef27e3c531782ec8213108e11e5515f9724303c7 (diff)
tcp: tcp_fragment() should apply sane memory limits
commit f070ef2ac66716357066b683fb0baf55f8191a2e upstream. Jonathan Looney reported that a malicious peer can force a sender to fragment its retransmit queue into tiny skbs, inflating memory usage and/or overflow 32bit counters. TCP allows an application to queue up to sk_sndbuf bytes, so we need to give some allowance for non malicious splitting of retransmit queue. A new SNMP counter is added to monitor how many times TCP did not allow to split an skb if the allowance was exceeded. Note that this counter might increase in the case applications use SO_SNDBUF socket option to lower sk_sndbuf. CVE-2019-11478 : tcp_fragment, prevent fragmenting a packet when the socket is already using more than half the allowed space Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reported-by: Jonathan Looney <jtl@netflix.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Cc: Bruce Curtis <brucec@netflix.com> Cc: Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [Salvatore Bonaccorso: Adjust context for backport to 4.9.168] [bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/snmp.h1
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/proc.c1
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp_output.c5
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/snmp.h b/include/uapi/linux/snmp.h
index df40137f33dd..baa4995806d3 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/snmp.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/snmp.h
@@ -265,6 +265,7 @@ enum
LINUX_MIB_TCPWANTZEROWINDOWADV, /* TCPWantZeroWindowAdv */
LINUX_MIB_TCPSYNRETRANS, /* TCPSynRetrans */
LINUX_MIB_TCPORIGDATASENT, /* TCPOrigDataSent */
+ LINUX_MIB_TCPWQUEUETOOBIG, /* TCPWqueueTooBig */
__LINUX_MIB_MAX
};
diff --git a/net/ipv4/proc.c b/net/ipv4/proc.c
index ae0af9386f7c..14da5171772d 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/proc.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/proc.c
@@ -286,6 +286,7 @@ static const struct snmp_mib snmp4_net_list[] = {
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPWantZeroWindowAdv", LINUX_MIB_TCPWANTZEROWINDOWADV),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPSynRetrans", LINUX_MIB_TCPSYNRETRANS),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPOrigDataSent", LINUX_MIB_TCPORIGDATASENT),
+ SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPWqueueTooBig", LINUX_MIB_TCPWQUEUETOOBIG),
SNMP_MIB_SENTINEL
};
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index 2a5c993daa7f..e760a1ad1956 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -1090,6 +1090,11 @@ int tcp_fragment(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, u32 len,
if (nsize < 0)
nsize = 0;
+ if (unlikely((sk->sk_wmem_queued >> 1) > sk->sk_sndbuf)) {
+ NET_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPWQUEUETOOBIG);
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
+
if (skb_unclone(skb, gfp))
return -ENOMEM;