tcp: Refine SYN handling for PAWS.
Our Network Load Balancer (NLB) [0] has multiple nodes with different
IP addresses, and each node forwards TCP flows from clients to backend
targets. NLB has an option to preserve the client's source IP address
and port when routing packets to backend targets. [1]
When a client connects to two different NLB nodes, they may select the
same backend target. Then, if the client has used the same source IP
and port, the two flows at the backend side will have the same 4-tuple.
While testing around such cases, I saw these sequences on the backend
target.
IP 10.0.0.215.60000 > 10.0.3.249.10000: Flags [S], seq
2819965599, win 62727, options [mss 8365,sackOK,TS val
1029816180 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0
IP 10.0.3.249.10000 > 10.0.0.215.60000: Flags [S.], seq
3040695044, ack
2819965600, win 62643, options [mss 8961,sackOK,TS val
1224784076 ecr
1029816180,nop,wscale 7], length 0
IP 10.0.0.215.60000 > 10.0.3.249.10000: Flags [.], ack 1, win 491, options [nop,nop,TS val
1029816181 ecr
1224784076], length 0
IP 10.0.0.215.60000 > 10.0.3.249.10000: Flags [S], seq
2681819307, win 62727, options [mss 8365,sackOK,TS val
572088282 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0
IP 10.0.3.249.10000 > 10.0.0.215.60000: Flags [.], ack 1, win 490, options [nop,nop,TS val
1224794914 ecr
1029816181,nop,nop,sack 1 {
4156821004:
4156821005}], length 0
It seems to be working correctly, but the last ACK was generated by
tcp_send_dupack() and PAWSEstab was increased. This is because the
second connection has a smaller timestamp than the first one.
In this case, we should send a dup ACK in tcp_send_challenge_ack()
to increase the correct counter and rate-limit it properly.
Let's check the SYN flag after the PAWS tests to avoid adding unnecessary
overhead for most packets.
Link: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/network/introduction.html
Link: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/network/load-balancer-target-groups.html#client-ip-preservation
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>