Re: [PATCH v2] netfilter: synproxy: erroneous TCP mss option fixed.

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Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 09:00:19PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> > Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >  		opts.options &= info->options;
> > > > +		client_mssinfo = opts.mss;
> > > > +		opts.mss = info->mss;
> > > 
> > > No need for this new client_mssinfo variable, right? I mean, you can
> > > just set:
> > > 
> > >         opts.mss = info->mss;
> > > 
> > > and use it from synproxy_send_client_synack().
> > 
> > I thought that as well but we need both mss values,
> > the one configured in the target (info->mss) and the
> > ine received from the peer.
> > 
> > The former is what we announce to peer in the syn/ack
> > (as tcp option), the latter is what we need to encode
> > in the syncookie (to decode it on cookie ack).
> 
> I see, probably place client_mss field into the synproxy_options
> structure?

I worked on a fix for this too (Ibrahim was faster), I
tried to rename opts.mss so we have

u16 mss_peer;
u16 mss_configured;

but I got confused myself as to where which mss is to be used.

perhaps
u16 mss_option;
u16 mss_encode;

... would have been better.



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