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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2015-03-12 04:53:14 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-03-12 04:55:28 +0300
commit33cf7c90fe2f97afb1cadaa0cfb782cb9d1b9ee2 (patch)
tree7a0c80d0b2bb618919d966ce5b827c7eb8f843f6 /include/net/inet_timewait_sock.h
parent654eff45166c7e89d18fc476325c975768b2e347 (diff)
downloadlinux-33cf7c90fe2f97afb1cadaa0cfb782cb9d1b9ee2.tar.xz
net: add real socket cookies
A long standing problem in netlink socket dumps is the use of kernel socket addresses as cookies. 1) It is a security concern. 2) Sockets can be reused quite quickly, so there is no guarantee a cookie is used once and identify a flow. 3) request sock, establish sock, and timewait socks for a given flow have different cookies. Part of our effort to bring better TCP statistics requires to switch to a different allocator. In this patch, I chose to use a per network namespace 64bit generator, and to use it only in the case a socket needs to be dumped to netlink. (This might be refined later if needed) Note that I tried to carry cookies from request sock, to establish sock, then timewait sockets. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Eric Salo <salo@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/inet_timewait_sock.h')
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diff --git a/include/net/inet_timewait_sock.h b/include/net/inet_timewait_sock.h
index 6c566034e26d..b7ce1003c429 100644
--- a/include/net/inet_timewait_sock.h
+++ b/include/net/inet_timewait_sock.h
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ struct inet_timewait_sock {
#define tw_v6_rcv_saddr __tw_common.skc_v6_rcv_saddr
#define tw_dport __tw_common.skc_dport
#define tw_num __tw_common.skc_num
+#define tw_cookie __tw_common.skc_cookie
int tw_timeout;
volatile unsigned char tw_substate;