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Commit 33cf7c90 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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net: add real socket cookies



A long standing problem in netlink socket dumps is the use
of kernel socket addresses as cookies.

1) It is a security concern.

2) Sockets can be reused quite quickly, so there is
   no guarantee a cookie is used once and identify
   a flow.

3) request sock, establish sock, and timewait socks
   for a given flow have different cookies.

Part of our effort to bring better TCP statistics requires
to switch to a different allocator.

In this patch, I chose to use a per network namespace 64bit generator,
and to use it only in the case a socket needs to be dumped to netlink.
(This might be refined later if needed)

Note that I tried to carry cookies from request sock, to establish sock,
then timewait sockets.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Eric Salo <salo@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 654eff45
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