tcp: add tcp_min_snd_mss sysctl
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:44:24 +0000 (17:44 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 17 Jun 2019 17:53:33 +0000 (19:53 +0200)
commit8e39cbc03dafa3731d22533f869bf326c0e6e6f8
tree11c6e6d7b481ecd6dfc32c546b767daec3959540
parente358f4af19db46ca25cc9a8a78412b09ba98859d
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>
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
include/net/netns/ipv4.h
net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c