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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2019-06-06 09:15:31 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-06-17 19:50:37 +0200
commit2efabe3e1491f10bf3cf82ae1a371755ba054a1b (patch)
treee27ee8208ba98d13cfebfa1d047c00bd70a450d3 /include
parenta38c401b4afafd11a127f250cb382c476bdeed9e (diff)
tcp: add tcp_min_snd_mss sysctl
commit 5f3e2bf008c2221478101ee72f5cb4654b9fc363 upstream. Some TCP peers announce a very small MSS option in their SYN and/or SYN/ACK messages. This forces the stack to send packets with a very high network/cpu overhead. Linux has enforced a minimal value of 48. Since this value includes the size of TCP options, and that the options can consume up to 40 bytes, this means that each segment can include only 8 bytes of payload. In some cases, it can be useful to increase the minimal value to a saner value. We still let the default to 48 (TCP_MIN_SND_MSS), for compatibility reasons. Note that TCP_MAXSEG socket option enforces a minimal value of (TCP_MIN_MSS). David Miller increased this minimal value in commit c39508d6f118 ("tcp: Make TCP_MAXSEG minimum more correct.") from 64 to 88. We might in the future merge TCP_MIN_SND_MSS and TCP_MIN_MSS. CVE-2019-11479 -- tcp mss hardcoded to 48 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Suggested-by: Jonathan Looney <jtl@netflix.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Cc: 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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/net/netns/ipv4.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/netns/ipv4.h b/include/net/netns/ipv4.h
index 7698460a3dd1..623cfbb7b8dc 100644
--- a/include/net/netns/ipv4.h
+++ b/include/net/netns/ipv4.h
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ struct netns_ipv4 {
#endif
int sysctl_tcp_mtu_probing;
int sysctl_tcp_base_mss;
+ int sysctl_tcp_min_snd_mss;
int sysctl_tcp_probe_threshold;
u32 sysctl_tcp_probe_interval;