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2020-10-16icmp: randomize the global rate limiterEric Dumazet
Keyu Man reported that the ICMP rate limiter could be used by attackers to get useful signal. Details will be provided in an upcoming academic publication. Our solution is to add some noise, so that the attackers no longer can get help from the predictable token bucket limiter. Fixes: 4cdf507d5452 ("icmp: add a global rate limitation") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reported-by: Keyu Man <kman001@ucr.edu> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2020-07-04Documentation: networking: ip-sysctl: drop doubled wordRandy Dunlap
Drop the doubled word "that". Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-05-06ipv6: Implement draft-ietf-6man-rfc4941bisFernando Gont
Implement the upcoming rev of RFC4941 (IPv6 temporary addresses): https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6man-rfc4941bis-09 * Reduces the default Valid Lifetime to 2 days The number of extra addresses employed when Valid Lifetime was 7 days exacerbated the stress caused on network elements/devices. Additionally, the motivation for temporary addresses is indeed privacy and reduced exposure. With a default Valid Lifetime of 7 days, an address that becomes revealed by active communication is reachable and exposed for one whole week. The only use case for a Valid Lifetime of 7 days could be some application that is expecting to have long lived connections. But if you want to have a long lived connections, you shouldn't be using a temporary address in the first place. Additionally, in the era of mobile devices, general applications should nevertheless be prepared and robust to address changes (e.g. nodes swap wifi <-> 4G, etc.) * Employs different IIDs for different prefixes To avoid network activity correlation among addresses configured for different prefixes * Uses a simpler algorithm for IID generation No need to store "history" anywhere Signed-off-by: Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-04-30tcp: add hrtimer slack to sack compressionEric Dumazet
Add a sysctl to control hrtimer slack, default of 100 usec. This gives the opportunity to reduce system overhead, and help very short RTT flows. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-04-30docs: networking: convert tcp-thin.txt to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab
Not much to be done here: - add SPDX header; - adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines where needed; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-04-28docs: networking: convert ip-sysctl.txt to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab
- add SPDX header; - adjust titles and chapters, adding proper markups; - mark code blocks and literals as such; - mark lists as such; - mark tables as such; - use footnote markup; - adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>