Re: [PATCH] netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix tcp_in_window for Fast Open

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On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 03:01:36PM +0200, Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Aug 2013, Yuchung Cheng wrote:
> 
> > Currently the conntrack checks if the ending sequence of a packet
> > falls within the observed receive window. However it does so even
> > if it has not observe any packet from the remote yet and uses an
> > uninitialized receive window (td_maxwin).
> > 
> > If a connection uses Fast Open to send a SYN-data packet which is
> > dropped afterward in the network. The subsequent SYNs retransmits
> > will all fail this check and be discarded, leading to a connection
> > timeout. This is because the SYN retransmit does not contain data
> > payload so
> > 
> > end == initial sequence number (isn) + 1
> > sender->td_end == isn + syn_data_len
> > receiver->td_maxwin == 0
> > 
> > The fix is to only apply this check after td_maxwin is initialized.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Michael Chan <mcfchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks everyone.
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