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tcp: randomize tcp timestamp offsets for each connection
authorFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Thu, 1 Dec 2016 10:32:06 +0000 (11:32 +0100)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 2 Dec 2016 17:49:59 +0000 (12:49 -0500)
commit95a22caee396cef0bb2ca8fafdd82966a49367bb
treeba58ca9c85a73dc887096d8123d199b3d28a705c
parent7df5358d4707c6f0a26266d3a4dd97fd353947e2
tcp: randomize tcp timestamp offsets for each connection

jiffies based timestamps allow for easy inference of number of devices
behind NAT translators and also makes tracking of hosts simpler.

commit ceaa1fef65a7c2e ("tcp: adding a per-socket timestamp offset")
added the main infrastructure that is needed for per-connection ts
randomization, in particular writing/reading the on-wire tcp header
format takes the offset into account so rest of stack can use normal
tcp_time_stamp (jiffies).

So only two items are left:
 - add a tsoffset for request sockets
 - extend the tcp isn generator to also return another 32bit number
   in addition to the ISN.

Re-use of ISN generator also means timestamps are still monotonically
increasing for same connection quadruple, i.e. PAWS will still work.

Includes fixes from Eric Dumazet.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/linux/tcp.h
include/net/secure_seq.h
include/net/tcp.h
net/core/secure_seq.c
net/ipv4/syncookies.c
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
net/ipv6/syncookies.c
net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c