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Commit 0c24604b authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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tcp: implement RFC 5961 4.2



Implement the RFC 5691 mitigation against Blind
Reset attack using SYN bit.

Section 4.2 of RFC 5961 advises to send a Challenge ACK and drop
incoming packet, instead of resetting the session.

Add a new SNMP counter to count number of challenge acks sent
in response to SYN packets.
(netstat -s | grep TCPSYNChallenge)

Remove obsolete TCPAbortOnSyn, since we no longer abort a TCP session
because of a SYN flag.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Kiran Kumar Kella <kkiran@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 5f3600eb
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