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Commit 0ff89efb authored by Peter Oskolkov's avatar Peter Oskolkov Committed by David S. Miller
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ip: fail fast on IP defrag errors



The current behavior of IP defragmentation is inconsistent:
- some overlapping/wrong length fragments are dropped without
  affecting the queue;
- most overlapping fragments cause the whole frag queue to be dropped.

This patch brings consistency: if a bad fragment is detected,
the whole frag queue is dropped. Two major benefits:
- fail fast: corrupted frag queues are cleared immediately, instead of
  by timeout;
- testing of overlapping fragments is now much easier: any kind of
  random fragment length mutation now leads to the frag queue being
  discarded (IP packet dropped); before this patch, some overlaps were
  "corrected", with tests not seeing expected packet drops.

Note that in one case (see "if (end&7)" conditional) the current
behavior is preserved as there are concerns that this could be
legitimate padding.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Oskolkov <posk@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarWillem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent b943f17e
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