Ali Abdallah c4edc3ccbc netfilter: conntrack: improve RST handling when tuple is re-used
If we receive a SYN packet in original direction on an existing
connection tracking entry, we let this SYN through because conntrack
might be out-of-sync.

Conntrack gets back in sync when server responds with SYN/ACK and state
gets updated accordingly.

However, if server replies with RST, this packet might be marked as
INVALID because td_maxack value reflects the *old* conntrack state
and not the state of the originator of the RST.

Avoid td_maxack-based checks if previous packet was a SYN.

Unfortunately that is not be enough: an out of order ACK in original
direction updates last_index, so we still end up marking valid RST.

Thus disable the sequence check when we are not in established state and
the received RST has a sequence of 0.

Because marking RSTs as invalid usually leads to unwanted timeouts,
also skip RST sequence checks if a conntrack entry is already closing.

Such entries can already be evicted via GC in case the table is full.

Co-developed-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Ali Abdallah <aabdallah@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2021-07-06 14:15:12 +02:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
S
Description
No description provided
Readme
5.7 GiB
Languages
C 96.9%
Assembly 0.9%
Rust 0.6%
Shell 0.6%
Python 0.5%
Other 0.3%