This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipv4: tcp: send zero IPID in SYNACK messages
to the 5.15-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:
ipv4-tcp-send-zero-ipid-in-synack-messages.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit abb13d51a34851d59167b049b5ede236e300336f
Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jan 26 17:10:21 2022 -0800
ipv4: tcp: send zero IPID in SYNACK messages
[ Upstream commit 970a5a3ea86da637471d3cd04d513a0755aba4bf ]
In commit 431280eebed9 ("ipv4: tcp: send zero IPID for RST and
ACK sent in SYN-RECV and TIME-WAIT state") we took care of some
ctl packets sent by TCP.
It turns out we need to use a similar strategy for SYNACK packets.
By default, they carry IP_DF and IPID==0, but there are ways
to ask them to use the hashed IP ident generator and thus
be used to build off-path attacks.
(Ref: Off-Path TCP Exploits of the Mixed IPID Assignment)
One of this way is to force (before listener is started)
echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_no_pmtu_disc
Another way is using forged ICMP ICMP_FRAG_NEEDED
with a very small MTU (like 68) to force a false return from
ip_dont_fragment()
In this patch, ip_build_and_send_pkt() uses the following
heuristics.
1) Most SYNACK packets are smaller than IPV4_MIN_MTU and therefore
can use IP_DF regardless of the listener or route pmtu setting.
2) In case the SYNACK packet is bigger than IPV4_MIN_MTU,
we use prandom_u32() generator instead of the IPv4 hashed ident one.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Ray Che <xijiache@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Geoff Alexander <alexandg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
index ff38b46bd4b0f..a4d2eb691cbc1 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
@@ -162,12 +162,19 @@ int ip_build_and_send_pkt(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct sock *sk,
iph->daddr = (opt && opt->opt.srr ? opt->opt.faddr : daddr);
iph->saddr = saddr;
iph->protocol = sk->sk_protocol;
- if (ip_dont_fragment(sk, &rt->dst)) {
+ /* Do not bother generating IPID for small packets (eg SYNACK) */
+ if (skb->len <= IPV4_MIN_MTU || ip_dont_fragment(sk, &rt->dst)) {
iph->frag_off = htons(IP_DF);
iph->id = 0;
} else {
iph->frag_off = 0;
- __ip_select_ident(net, iph, 1);
+ /* TCP packets here are SYNACK with fat IPv4/TCP options.
+ * Avoid using the hashed IP ident generator.
+ */
+ if (sk->sk_protocol == IPPROTO_TCP)
+ iph->id = (__force __be16)prandom_u32();
+ else
+ __ip_select_ident(net, iph, 1);
}
if (opt && opt->opt.optlen) {
