This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tcp: configurable source port perturb table size
to the 4.19-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:
tcp-configurable-source-port-perturb-table-size.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 8f4f86d915a1f0099f9593ef0ae9bf81211ee8f7
Author: Gleb Mazovetskiy <glex.spb@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Nov 14 22:56:16 2022 +0000
tcp: configurable source port perturb table size
[ Upstream commit aeac4ec8f46d610a10adbaeff5e2edf6a88ffc62 ]
On embedded systems with little memory and no relevant
security concerns, it is beneficial to reduce the size
of the table.
Reducing the size from 2^16 to 2^8 saves 255 KiB
of kernel RAM.
Makes the table size configurable as an expert option.
The size was previously increased from 2^8 to 2^16
in commit 4c2c8f03a5ab ("tcp: increase source port perturb table to
2^16").
Signed-off-by: Gleb Mazovetskiy <glex.spb@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/Kconfig b/net/ipv4/Kconfig
index 2e12f848203a..8acfa1487478 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/Kconfig
+++ b/net/ipv4/Kconfig
@@ -388,6 +388,16 @@ config INET_IPCOMP
If unsure, say Y.
+config INET_TABLE_PERTURB_ORDER
+ int "INET: Source port perturbation table size (as power of 2)" if EXPERT
+ default 16
+ help
+ Source port perturbation table size (as power of 2) for
+ RFC 6056 3.3.4. Algorithm 4: Double-Hash Port Selection Algorithm.
+
+ The default is almost always what you want.
+ Only change this if you know what you are doing.
+
config INET_XFRM_TUNNEL
tristate
select INET_TUNNEL
diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c b/net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c
index 70070f1003a0..3c58019f0718 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c
@@ -718,13 +718,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(inet_unhash);
* Note that we use 32bit integers (vs RFC 'short integers')
* because 2^16 is not a multiple of num_ephemeral and this
* property might be used by clever attacker.
+ *
* RFC claims using TABLE_LENGTH=10 buckets gives an improvement, though
- * attacks were since demonstrated, thus we use 65536 instead to really
- * give more isolation and privacy, at the expense of 256kB of kernel
- * memory.
+ * attacks were since demonstrated, thus we use 65536 by default instead
+ * to really give more isolation and privacy, at the expense of 256kB
+ * of kernel memory.
*/
-#define INET_TABLE_PERTURB_SHIFT 16
-#define INET_TABLE_PERTURB_SIZE (1 << INET_TABLE_PERTURB_SHIFT)
+#define INET_TABLE_PERTURB_SIZE (1 << CONFIG_INET_TABLE_PERTURB_ORDER)
static u32 *table_perturb;
int __inet_hash_connect(struct inet_timewait_death_row *death_row,
