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Jakub Kicinski 789ed80afa Merge branch 'icmp-avoid-possible-side-channels-attacks'
Eric Dumazet says:

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icmp: avoid possible side-channels attacks

Keyu Man reminded us that linux ICMP rate limiting was still allowing
side-channels attacks.

Quoting the fine document [1]:

4.4 Private Source Port Scan Method
...
 We can then use the same global ICMP rate limit as a side
 channel to infer if such an ICMP message has been triggered. At
 first glance, this method can work but at a low speed of one port
 per second, due to the per-IP rate limit on ICMP messages.
 Surprisingly, after we analyze the source code of the ICMP rate
 limit implementation, we find that the global rate limit is checked
 prior to the per-IP rate limit. This means that even if the per-IP
 rate limit may eventually determine that no ICMP reply should be
 sent, a packet is still subjected to the global rate limit check and one
 token is deducted. Ironically, such a decision is consciously made
 by Linux developers to avoid invoking the expensive check of the
 per-IP rate limit [ 22], involving a search process to locate the per-IP
 data structure.
 This effectively means that the per-IP rate limit can be disre-
 garded for the purpose of our side channel based scan, as it only
 determines if the final ICMP reply is generated but has nothing to
 do with the global rate limit counter decrement. As a result, we can
 continue to use roughly the same scan method as efficient as before,
 achieving 1,000 ports per second
...

This series :

1) Changes the order of the two rate limiters to fix the issue.

2-3) Make the 'host-wide' rate limiter a per-netns one.

[1]
Link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3372297.3417280
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Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240829144641.3880376-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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