3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>

[ Upstream commit bd090dfc634ddd711a5fbd0cadc6e0ab4977bcaf ]

We added support for RFC 5961 in latest kernels but TCP fails
to perform exhaustive check of ACK sequence.

We can update our view of peer tsval from a frame that is
later discarded by tcp_ack()

This makes timestamps enabled sessions vulnerable to injection of
a high tsval : peers start an ACK storm, since the victim
sends a dupack each time it receives an ACK from the other peer.

As tcp_validate_incoming() is called before tcp_ack(), we should
not peform tcp_replace_ts_recent() from it, and let callers do it
at the right time.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardw...@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ych...@google.com>
Cc: Nandita Dukkipati <nandi...@google.com>
Cc: H.K. Jerry Chu <hk...@google.com>
Cc: Romain Francoise <rom...@orebokech.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c |   15 ++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -5337,11 +5337,6 @@ static bool tcp_validate_incoming(struct
                goto discard;
        }
 
-       /* ts_recent update must be made after we are sure that the packet
-        * is in window.
-        */
-       tcp_replace_ts_recent(tp, TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq);
-
        /* step 3: check security and precedence [ignored] */
 
        /* step 4: Check for a SYN
@@ -5576,6 +5571,11 @@ step5:
        if (th->ack && tcp_ack(sk, skb, FLAG_SLOWPATH) < 0)
                goto discard;
 
+       /* ts_recent update must be made after we are sure that the packet
+        * is in window.
+        */
+       tcp_replace_ts_recent(tp, TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq);
+
        tcp_rcv_rtt_measure_ts(sk, skb);
 
        /* Process urgent data. */
@@ -6046,6 +6046,11 @@ int tcp_rcv_state_process(struct sock *s
        } else
                goto discard;
 
+       /* ts_recent update must be made after we are sure that the packet
+        * is in window.
+        */
+       tcp_replace_ts_recent(tp, TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq);
+
        /* step 6: check the URG bit */
        tcp_urg(sk, skb, th);
 


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