tcp: syncookies: extend validity range

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Now we allow storing more request socks per listener, we might
hit syncookie mode less often and hit following bug in our stack :

When we send a burst of syncookies, then exit this mode,
tcp_synq_no_recent_overflow() can return false if the ACK packets coming
from clients are coming three seconds after the end of syncookie
episode.

This is a way too strong requirement and conflicts with rest of
syncookie code which allows ACK to be aged up to 2 minutes.

Perfectly valid ACK packets are dropped just because clients might be
in a crowded wifi environment or on another planet.

So let's fix this, and also change tcp_synq_overflow() to not
dirty a cache line for every syncookie we send, as we are under attack.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Eric Dumazet 2015-05-14 14:26:56 -07:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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