Commit 82b72cb9 authored Jan 29, 2022 by Florian Westphal Committed by Pablo Neira Ayuso Feb 04, 2022

netfilter: conntrack: re-init state for retransmitted syn-ack



TCP conntrack assumes that a syn-ack retransmit is identical to the
previous syn-ack.  This isn't correct and causes stuck 3whs in some more
esoteric scenarios.  tcpdump to illustrate the problem:

 client > server: Flags [S] seq 1365731894, win 29200, [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 2083035583 ecr 0,wscale 7]
 server > client: Flags [S.] seq 145824453, ack 643160523, win 65535, [mss 8952,wscale 5,TS val 3215367629 ecr 2082921663]

Note the invalid/outdated synack ack number.
Conntrack marks this syn-ack as out-of-window/invalid, but it did
initialize the reply direction parameters based on this packets content.

 client > server: Flags [S] seq 1365731894, win 29200, [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 2083036623 ecr 0,wscale 7]

... retransmit...

 server > client: Flags [S.], seq 145824453, ack 643160523, win 65535, [mss 8952,wscale 5,TS val 3215368644 ecr 2082921663]

and another bogus synack. This repeats, then client re-uses for a new
attempt:

client > server: Flags [S], seq 2375731741, win 29200, [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 2083100223 ecr 0,wscale 7]
server > client: Flags [S.], seq 145824453, ack 643160523, win 65535, [mss 8952,wscale 5,TS val 3215430754 ecr 2082921663]

... but still gets a invalid syn-ack.

This repeats until:

 server > client: Flags [S.], seq 145824453, ack 643160523, win 65535, [mss 8952,wscale 5,TS val 3215437785 ecr 2082921663]
 server > client: Flags [R.], seq 145824454, ack 643160523, win 65535, [mss 8952,wscale 5,TS val 3215443451 ecr 2082921663]
 client > server: Flags [S], seq 2375731741, win 29200, [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 2083115583 ecr 0,wscale 7]
 server > client: Flags [S.], seq 162602410, ack 2375731742, win 65535, [mss 8952,wscale 5,TS val 3215445754 ecr 2083115583]

This syn-ack has the correct ack number, but conntrack flags it as
invalid: The internal state was created from the first syn-ack seen
so the sequence number of the syn-ack is treated as being outside of
the announced window.

Don't assume that retransmitted syn-ack is identical to previous one.
Treat it like the first syn-ack and reinit state.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Acked-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

parent cc4f9d62

net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c

+12 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -571,6 +571,18 @@ static bool tcp_in_window(struct nf_conn *ct,
		sender->td_maxwin = (win == 0 ? 1 : win);

		tcp_options(skb, dataoff, tcph, sender);
		} else if (tcph->syn && dir == IP_CT_DIR_REPLY &&
		state->state == TCP_CONNTRACK_SYN_SENT) {
		/* Retransmitted syn-ack, or syn (simultaneous open).
		*
		* Re-init state for this direction, just like for the first
		* syn(-ack) reply, it might differ in seq, ack or tcp options.
		*/
		tcp_init_sender(sender, receiver,
		skb, dataoff, tcph,
		end, win);
		if (!tcph->ack)
		return true;
		}

		if (!(tcph->ack)) {