From: Greg KH <[email protected]> 3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> commit fdf5af0daf8019cec2396cdef8fb042d80fe71fa upstream. Denys Fedoryshchenko reported that SYN+FIN attacks were bringing his linux machines to their limits. Dont call conn_request() if the TCP flags includes SYN flag Reported-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]> Cc: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c @@ -5761,6 +5761,8 @@ int tcp_rcv_state_process(struct sock *s goto discard; if (th->syn) { + if (th->fin) + goto discard; if (icsk->icsk_af_ops->conn_request(sk, skb) < 0) return 1; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
