tcp: tcp_fragment() should apply sane memory limits
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:40:56 +0000 (17:40 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 17 Jun 2019 17:52:44 +0000 (19:52 +0200)
commit9daf226ff92679d09aeca1b5c1240e3607153336
treeff20835bd9b1bf6ef02dabee5be58833fb1a6896
parentd632920554c5aec81d8a79c23dac07efcbabbd54
tcp: tcp_fragment() should apply sane memory limits

commit f070ef2ac66716357066b683fb0baf55f8191a2e upstream.

Jonathan Looney reported that a malicious peer can force a sender
to fragment its retransmit queue into tiny skbs, inflating memory
usage and/or overflow 32bit counters.

TCP allows an application to queue up to sk_sndbuf bytes,
so we need to give some allowance for non malicious splitting
of retransmit queue.

A new SNMP counter is added to monitor how many times TCP
did not allow to split an skb if the allowance was exceeded.

Note that this counter might increase in the case applications
use SO_SNDBUF socket option to lower sk_sndbuf.

CVE-2019-11478 : tcp_fragment, prevent fragmenting a packet when the
socket is already using more than half the allowed space

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Jonathan Looney <jtl@netflix.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Cc: Bruce Curtis <brucec@netflix.com>
Cc: Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/uapi/linux/snmp.h
net/ipv4/proc.c
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c