This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: l2tp: reduce log level of messages in receive path, add counter instead to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-l2tp-reduce-log-level-of-messages-in-receive-path-add-counter-instead.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 3e59e8856758eb5a2dfe1f831ef53b168fd58105 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 16:50:49 +0100 Subject: net: l2tp: reduce log level of messages in receive path, add counter instead From: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 3e59e8856758eb5a2dfe1f831ef53b168fd58105 upstream. Commit 5ee759cda51b ("l2tp: use standard API for warning log messages") changed a number of warnings about invalid packets in the receive path so that they are always shown, instead of only when a special L2TP debug flag is set. Even with rate limiting these warnings can easily cause significant log spam - potentially triggered by a malicious party sending invalid packets on purpose. In addition these warnings were noticed by projects like Tunneldigger [1], which uses L2TP for its data path, but implements its own control protocol (which is sufficiently different from L2TP data packets that it would always be passed up to userspace even with future extensions of L2TP). Some of the warnings were already redundant, as l2tp_stats has a counter for these packets. This commit adds one additional counter for invalid packets that are passed up to userspace. Packets with unknown session are not counted as invalid, as there is nothing wrong with the format of these packets. With the additional counter, all of these messages are either redundant or benign, so we reduce them to pr_debug_ratelimited(). [1] https://github.com/wlanslovenija/tunneldigger/issues/160 Fixes: 5ee759cda51b ("l2tp: use standard API for warning log messages") Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/uapi/linux/l2tp.h | 1 + net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------- net/l2tp/l2tp_core.h | 1 + net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c | 6 ++++++ 4 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) --- a/include/uapi/linux/l2tp.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/l2tp.h @@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ enum { L2TP_ATTR_RX_ERRORS, /* u64 */ L2TP_ATTR_STATS_PAD, L2TP_ATTR_RX_COOKIE_DISCARDS, /* u64 */ + L2TP_ATTR_RX_INVALID, /* u64 */ __L2TP_ATTR_STATS_MAX, }; --- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c +++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c @@ -649,9 +649,9 @@ void l2tp_recv_common(struct l2tp_sessio /* Parse and check optional cookie */ if (session->peer_cookie_len > 0) { if (memcmp(ptr, &session->peer_cookie[0], session->peer_cookie_len)) { - pr_warn_ratelimited("%s: cookie mismatch (%u/%u). Discarding.\n", - tunnel->name, tunnel->tunnel_id, - session->session_id); + pr_debug_ratelimited("%s: cookie mismatch (%u/%u). Discarding.\n", + tunnel->name, tunnel->tunnel_id, + session->session_id); atomic_long_inc(&session->stats.rx_cookie_discards); goto discard; } @@ -702,8 +702,8 @@ void l2tp_recv_common(struct l2tp_sessio * If user has configured mandatory sequence numbers, discard. */ if (session->recv_seq) { - pr_warn_ratelimited("%s: recv data has no seq numbers when required. Discarding.\n", - session->name); + pr_debug_ratelimited("%s: recv data has no seq numbers when required. Discarding.\n", + session->name); atomic_long_inc(&session->stats.rx_seq_discards); goto discard; } @@ -718,8 +718,8 @@ void l2tp_recv_common(struct l2tp_sessio session->send_seq = 0; l2tp_session_set_header_len(session, tunnel->version); } else if (session->send_seq) { - pr_warn_ratelimited("%s: recv data has no seq numbers when required. Discarding.\n", - session->name); + pr_debug_ratelimited("%s: recv data has no seq numbers when required. Discarding.\n", + session->name); atomic_long_inc(&session->stats.rx_seq_discards); goto discard; } @@ -809,9 +809,9 @@ static int l2tp_udp_recv_core(struct l2t /* Short packet? */ if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, L2TP_HDR_SIZE_MAX)) { - pr_warn_ratelimited("%s: recv short packet (len=%d)\n", - tunnel->name, skb->len); - goto error; + pr_debug_ratelimited("%s: recv short packet (len=%d)\n", + tunnel->name, skb->len); + goto invalid; } /* Point to L2TP header */ @@ -824,9 +824,9 @@ static int l2tp_udp_recv_core(struct l2t /* Check protocol version */ version = hdrflags & L2TP_HDR_VER_MASK; if (version != tunnel->version) { - pr_warn_ratelimited("%s: recv protocol version mismatch: got %d expected %d\n", - tunnel->name, version, tunnel->version); - goto error; + pr_debug_ratelimited("%s: recv protocol version mismatch: got %d expected %d\n", + tunnel->name, version, tunnel->version); + goto invalid; } /* Get length of L2TP packet */ @@ -834,7 +834,7 @@ static int l2tp_udp_recv_core(struct l2t /* If type is control packet, it is handled by userspace. */ if (hdrflags & L2TP_HDRFLAG_T) - goto error; + goto pass; /* Skip flags */ ptr += 2; @@ -863,21 +863,24 @@ static int l2tp_udp_recv_core(struct l2t l2tp_session_dec_refcount(session); /* Not found? Pass to userspace to deal with */ - pr_warn_ratelimited("%s: no session found (%u/%u). Passing up.\n", - tunnel->name, tunnel_id, session_id); - goto error; + pr_debug_ratelimited("%s: no session found (%u/%u). Passing up.\n", + tunnel->name, tunnel_id, session_id); + goto pass; } if (tunnel->version == L2TP_HDR_VER_3 && l2tp_v3_ensure_opt_in_linear(session, skb, &ptr, &optr)) - goto error; + goto invalid; l2tp_recv_common(session, skb, ptr, optr, hdrflags, length); l2tp_session_dec_refcount(session); return 0; -error: +invalid: + atomic_long_inc(&tunnel->stats.rx_invalid); + +pass: /* Put UDP header back */ __skb_push(skb, sizeof(struct udphdr)); --- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.h +++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.h @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ struct l2tp_stats { atomic_long_t rx_oos_packets; atomic_long_t rx_errors; atomic_long_t rx_cookie_discards; + atomic_long_t rx_invalid; }; struct l2tp_tunnel; --- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c +++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c @@ -428,6 +428,9 @@ static int l2tp_nl_tunnel_send(struct sk L2TP_ATTR_STATS_PAD) || nla_put_u64_64bit(skb, L2TP_ATTR_RX_ERRORS, atomic_long_read(&tunnel->stats.rx_errors), + L2TP_ATTR_STATS_PAD) || + nla_put_u64_64bit(skb, L2TP_ATTR_RX_INVALID, + atomic_long_read(&tunnel->stats.rx_invalid), L2TP_ATTR_STATS_PAD)) goto nla_put_failure; nla_nest_end(skb, nest); @@ -771,6 +774,9 @@ static int l2tp_nl_session_send(struct s L2TP_ATTR_STATS_PAD) || nla_put_u64_64bit(skb, L2TP_ATTR_RX_ERRORS, atomic_long_read(&session->stats.rx_errors), + L2TP_ATTR_STATS_PAD) || + nla_put_u64_64bit(skb, L2TP_ATTR_RX_INVALID, + atomic_long_read(&session->stats.rx_invalid), L2TP_ATTR_STATS_PAD)) goto nla_put_failure; nla_nest_end(skb, nest); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mschiffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.10/net-l2tp-reduce-log-level-of-messages-in-receive-path-add-counter-instead.patch