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Commit 72cd43ba authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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tcp: free batches of packets in tcp_prune_ofo_queue()



Juha-Matti Tilli reported that malicious peers could inject tiny
packets in out_of_order_queue, forcing very expensive calls
to tcp_collapse_ofo_queue() and tcp_prune_ofo_queue() for
every incoming packet. out_of_order_queue rb-tree can contain
thousands of nodes, iterating over all of them is not nice.

Before linux-4.9, we would have pruned all packets in ofo_queue
in one go, every XXXX packets. XXXX depends on sk_rcvbuf and skbs
truesize, but is about 7000 packets with tcp_rmem[2] default of 6 MB.

Since we plan to increase tcp_rmem[2] in the future to cope with
modern BDP, can not revert to the old behavior, without great pain.

Strategy taken in this patch is to purge ~12.5 % of the queue capacity.

Fixes: 36a6503f ("tcp: refine tcp_prune_ofo_queue() to not drop all packets")
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: default avatarJuha-Matti Tilli <juha-matti.tilli@iki.fi>
Acked-by: default avatarYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSoheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 3dd1c9a1
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