From: Eric Dumazet Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 10:03:52 -0700 Subject: [PATCH net 2/4] tcp: tcp_fragment() should apply sane memory limits Origin: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1117156/ Jonathan Looney reported that a malicious peer can force a sender to fragment its retransmit queue into tiny skbs, inflating memory usage and/or overflow 32bit counters. TCP allows an application to queue up to sk_sndbuf bytes, so we need to give some allowance for non malicious splitting of retransmit queue. A new SNMP counter is added to monitor how many times TCP did not allow to split an skb if the allowance was exceeded. Note that this counter might increase in the case applications use SO_SNDBUF socket option to lower sk_sndbuf. CVE-2019-11478 : tcp_fragment, prevent fragmenting a packet when the socket is already using more than half the allowed space Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reported-by: Jonathan Looney Acked-by: Neal Cardwell Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks Cc: Bruce Curtis Cc: Jonathan Lemon Acked-by: Jonathan Lemon --- include/uapi/linux/snmp.h | 1 + net/ipv4/proc.c | 1 + net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 5 +++++ 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+) --- a/include/uapi/linux/snmp.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/snmp.h @@ -282,6 +282,7 @@ enum LINUX_MIB_TCPACKCOMPRESSED, /* TCPAckCompressed */ LINUX_MIB_TCPZEROWINDOWDROP, /* TCPZeroWindowDrop */ LINUX_MIB_TCPRCVQDROP, /* TCPRcvQDrop */ + LINUX_MIB_TCPWQUEUETOOBIG, /* TCPWqueueTooBig */ __LINUX_MIB_MAX }; --- a/net/ipv4/proc.c +++ b/net/ipv4/proc.c @@ -290,6 +290,7 @@ static const struct snmp_mib snmp4_net_l SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPAckCompressed", LINUX_MIB_TCPACKCOMPRESSED), SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPZeroWindowDrop", LINUX_MIB_TCPZEROWINDOWDROP), SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPRcvQDrop", LINUX_MIB_TCPRCVQDROP), + SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPWqueueTooBig", LINUX_MIB_TCPWQUEUETOOBIG), SNMP_MIB_SENTINEL }; --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c @@ -1299,6 +1299,11 @@ int tcp_fragment(struct sock *sk, enum t if (nsize < 0) nsize = 0; + if (unlikely((sk->sk_wmem_queued >> 1) > sk->sk_sndbuf)) { + NET_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPWQUEUETOOBIG); + return -ENOMEM; + } + if (skb_unclone(skb, gfp)) return -ENOMEM;