tcp: syncookies: reduce cookie lifetime to 128 seconds
authorFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Fri, 20 Sep 2013 20:32:55 +0000 (22:32 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:39:58 +0000 (10:39 -0400)
commit8c27bd75f04fb9cb70c69c3cfe24f4e6d8e15906
tree28156d5d01cd4393da57eb328db87d784bdd4260
parent61f860c356c3d15b6cf48ef35beea664921dec1e
tcp: syncookies: reduce cookie lifetime to 128 seconds

We currently accept cookies that were created less than 4 minutes ago
(ie, cookies with counter delta 0-3).  Combined with the 8 mss table
values, this yields 32 possible values (out of 2**32) that will be valid.

Reducing the lifetime to < 2 minutes halves the guessing chance while
still providing a large enough period.

While at it, get rid of jiffies value -- they overflow too quickly on
32 bit platforms.

getnstimeofday is used to create a counter that increments every 64s.
perf shows getnstimeofday cost is negible compared to sha_transform;
normal tcp initial sequence number generation uses getnstimeofday, too.

Reported-by: Jakob Lell <jakob@jakoblell.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/net/tcp.h
net/ipv4/syncookies.c
net/ipv6/syncookies.c