With the current port selection algorithm, ports after a reserved port
range or long time used port are used more often than others [1]. This
causes an uneven port usage distribution. This combines with cloud
environments blocking connections between the application server and the
database server if there was a previous connection with the same source
port, leading to connectivity problems between applications on cloud
environments.
The real issue here is that these firewalls cannot cope with
standards-compliant port reuse. This is a workaround for such situations
and an improvement on the distribution of ports selected.
The proposed solution is to implement a variant of RFC 6056 Algorithm 5.
The step size is selected randomly on every connect() call ensuring it
is a coprime with respect to the size of the range of ports we want to
scan. This way, we can ensure that all ports within the range are
scanned before returning an error. To enable this algorithm, the user
must configure the new sysctl option "net.ipv4.ip_local_port_step_width".
In addition, on graphs generated we can observe that the distribution of
source ports is more even with the proposed approach. [2]
[1] https://0xffsoftware.com/port_graph_current_alg.html
[2] https://0xffsoftware.com/port_graph_random_step_alg.html
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309023946.5473-2-fmancera@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
These sysctls were added in 4cdf507d54 ("icmp: add a global rate
limitation") and their default values might be too small.
Some network tools send probes to closed UDP ports from many hosts
to estimate proportion of packet drops on a particular target.
This patch sets both sysctls to 10000.
Note the per-peer rate-limit (as described in RFC 4443 2.4 (f))
intent is still enforced.
This also increases security, see b38e7819ca
("icmp: randomize the global rate limiter") for reference.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260223161742.929830-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Add missing documentation for a neighbor table garbage collector sysctl
parameter in ip-sysctl.rst:
neigh/default/gc_stale_time: controls how long an unused neighbor entry
is kept before becoming eligible for garbage collection (default: 60
seconds)
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Goller <g.goller@proxmox.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260223101257.47563-1-g.goller@proxmox.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Following part was needed before the blamed commit, because
inet_getpeer_v6() second argument was the prefix.
/* Give more bandwidth to wider prefixes. */
if (rt->rt6i_dst.plen < 128)
tmo >>= ((128 - rt->rt6i_dst.plen)>>5);
Now inet_getpeer_v6() retrieves hosts, we need to remove
@tmo adjustement or wider prefixes likes /24 allow 8x
more ICMP to be sent for a given ratelimit.
As we had this issue for a while, this patch changes net.ipv6.icmp.ratelimit
default value from 1000ms to 100ms to avoid potential regressions.
Also add a READ_ONCE() when reading net->ipv6.sysctl.icmpv6_time.
Fixes: fd0273d793 ("ipv6: Remove external dependency on rt6i_dst and rt6i_src")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260216142832.3834174-4-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Detect spurious retransmission of a previously sent ACK carrying the
AccECN option after the second retransmission. Since this might be caused
by the middlebox dropping ACK with options it does not recognize, disable
the sending of the AccECN option in all subsequent ACKs. This patch
follows Section 3.2.3.2.2 of AccECN spec (RFC9768), and a new field
(accecn_opt_sent_w_dsack) is added to indicate that an AccECN option was
sent with duplicate SACK info.
Also, a new AccECN option sending mode is added to tcp_ecn_option sysctl:
(TCP_ECN_OPTION_PERSIST), which ignores the AccECN fallback policy and
persistently sends AccECN option once it fits into TCP option space.
Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260131222515.8485-13-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
net.ipv4.tcp_comp_sack_slack_ns current default value is too high.
When a flow has many drops (1 % or more), and small RTT, adding 100 usec
before sending SACK stalls the sender relying on getting SACK
fast enough to keep the pipe busy.
Decrease the default to 10 usec.
This is orthogonal to Congestion Control heuristics to determine
if drops are caused by congestion or not.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251114135141.3810964-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
TCP SACK compression has been added in 2018 in commit
5d9f4262b7 ("tcp: add SACK compression").
It is working great for WAN flows (with large RTT).
Wifi in particular gets a significant boost _when_ ACK are suppressed.
Add a new sysctl so that we can tune the very conservative 5 % value
that has been used so far in this formula, so that small RTT flows
can benefit from this feature.
delay = min ( 5 % of RTT, 1 ms)
This patch adds new tcp_comp_sack_rtt_percent sysctl
to ease experiments and tuning.
Given that we cap the delay to 1ms (tcp_comp_sack_delay_ns sysctl),
set the default value to 33 %.
Quoting Neal Cardwell ( https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CADVnQymZ1tFnEA1Q=vtECs0=Db7zHQ8=+WCQtnhHFVbEOzjVnQ@mail.gmail.com/ )
The rationale for 33% is basically to try to facilitate pipelining,
where there are always at least 3 ACKs and 3 GSO/TSO skbs per SRTT, so
that the path can maintain a budget for 3 full-sized GSO/TSO skbs "in
flight" at all times:
+ 1 skb in the qdisc waiting to be sent by the NIC next
+ 1 skb being sent by the NIC (being serialized by the NIC out onto the wire)
+ 1 skb being received and aggregated by the receiver machine's
aggregation mechanism (some combination of LRO, GRO, and sack
compression)
Note that this is basically the same magic number (3) and the same
rationales as:
(a) tcp_tso_should_defer() ensuring that we defer sending data for no
longer than cwnd/tcp_tso_win_divisor (where tcp_tso_win_divisor = 3),
and
(b) bbr_quantization_budget() ensuring that cwnd is at least 3 GSO/TSO
skbs to maintain pipelining and full throughput at low RTTs
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251106115236.3450026-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Add the ability to append the incoming IP interface information to
ICMPv6 error messages in accordance with RFC 5837 and RFC 4884. This is
required for more meaningful traceroute results in unnumbered networks.
The feature is disabled by default and controlled via a new sysctl
("net.ipv6.icmp.errors_extension_mask") which accepts a bitmask of ICMP
extensions to append to ICMP error messages. Currently, only a single
value is supported, but the interface and the implementation should be
able to support more extensions, if needed.
Clone the skb and copy the relevant data portions before modifying the
skb as the caller of icmp6_send() still owns the skb after the function
returns. This should be fine since by default ICMP error messages are
rate limited to 1000 per second and no more than 1 per second per
specific host.
Trim or pad the packet to 128 bytes before appending the ICMP extension
structure in order to be compatible with legacy applications that assume
that the ICMP extension structure always starts at this offset (the
minimum length specified by RFC 4884).
Since commit 20e1954fe2 ("ipv6: RFC 4884 partial support for SIT/GRE
tunnels") it is possible for icmp6_send() to be called with an skb that
already contains ICMP extensions. This can happen when we receive an
ICMPv4 message with extensions from a tunnel and translate it to an
ICMPv6 message towards an IPv6 host in the overlay network. I could not
find an RFC that supports this behavior, but it makes sense to not
overwrite the original extensions that were appended to the packet.
Therefore, avoid appending extensions if the length field in the
provided ICMPv6 header is already filled.
Export netdev_copy_name() using EXPORT_IPV6_MOD_GPL() to make it
available to IPv6 when it is built as a module.
Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027082232.232571-3-idosch@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Add the ability to append the incoming IP interface information to
ICMPv4 error messages in accordance with RFC 5837 and RFC 4884. This is
required for more meaningful traceroute results in unnumbered networks.
The feature is disabled by default and controlled via a new sysctl
("net.ipv4.icmp_errors_extension_mask") which accepts a bitmask of ICMP
extensions to append to ICMP error messages. Currently, only a single
value is supported, but the interface and the implementation should be
able to support more extensions, if needed.
Clone the skb and copy the relevant data portions before modifying the
skb as the caller of __icmp_send() still owns the skb after the function
returns. This should be fine since by default ICMP error messages are
rate limited to 1000 per second and no more than 1 per second per
specific host.
Trim or pad the packet to 128 bytes before appending the ICMP extension
structure in order to be compatible with legacy applications that assume
that the ICMP extension structure always starts at this offset (the
minimum length specified by RFC 4884).
Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027082232.232571-2-idosch@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Instead of sending the option in every ACK, limit sending to
those ACKs where the option is necessary:
- Handshake
- "Change-triggered ACK" + the ACK following it. The
2nd ACK is necessary to unambiguously indicate which
of the ECN byte counters in increasing. The first
ACK has two counters increasing due to the ecnfield
edge.
- ACKs with CE to allow CEP delta validations to take
advantage of the option.
- Force option to be sent every at least once per 2^22
bytes. The check is done using the bit edges of the
byte counters (avoids need for extra variables).
- AccECN option beacon to send a few times per RTT even if
nothing in the ECN state requires that. The default is 3
times per RTT, and its period can be set via
sysctl_tcp_ecn_option_beacon.
Below are the pahole outcomes before and after this patch,
in which the group size of tcp_sock_write_tx is increased
from 89 to 97 due to the new u64 accecn_opt_tstamp member:
[BEFORE THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_sock {
[...]
u64 tcp_wstamp_ns; /* 2488 8 */
struct list_head tsorted_sent_queue; /* 2496 16 */
[...]
__cacheline_group_end__tcp_sock_write_tx[0]; /* 2521 0 */
__cacheline_group_begin__tcp_sock_write_txrx[0]; /* 2521 0 */
u8 nonagle:4; /* 2521: 0 1 */
u8 rate_app_limited:1; /* 2521: 4 1 */
/* XXX 3 bits hole, try to pack */
/* Force alignment to the next boundary: */
u8 :0;
u8 received_ce_pending:4;/* 2522: 0 1 */
u8 unused2:4; /* 2522: 4 1 */
u8 accecn_minlen:2; /* 2523: 0 1 */
u8 est_ecnfield:2; /* 2523: 2 1 */
u8 unused3:4; /* 2523: 4 1 */
[...]
__cacheline_group_end__tcp_sock_write_txrx[0]; /* 2628 0 */
[...]
/* size: 3200, cachelines: 50, members: 171 */
}
[AFTER THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_sock {
[...]
u64 tcp_wstamp_ns; /* 2488 8 */
u64 accecn_opt_tstamp; /* 2596 8 */
struct list_head tsorted_sent_queue; /* 2504 16 */
[...]
__cacheline_group_end__tcp_sock_write_tx[0]; /* 2529 0 */
__cacheline_group_begin__tcp_sock_write_txrx[0]; /* 2529 0 */
u8 nonagle:4; /* 2529: 0 1 */
u8 rate_app_limited:1; /* 2529: 4 1 */
/* XXX 3 bits hole, try to pack */
/* Force alignment to the next boundary: */
u8 :0;
u8 received_ce_pending:4;/* 2530: 0 1 */
u8 unused2:4; /* 2530: 4 1 */
u8 accecn_minlen:2; /* 2531: 0 1 */
u8 est_ecnfield:2; /* 2531: 2 1 */
u8 accecn_opt_demand:2; /* 2531: 4 1 */
u8 prev_ecnfield:2; /* 2531: 6 1 */
[...]
__cacheline_group_end__tcp_sock_write_txrx[0]; /* 2636 0 */
[...]
/* size: 3200, cachelines: 50, members: 173 */
}
Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Co-developed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ij@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ij@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916082434.100722-8-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
The Accurate ECN allows echoing back the sum of bytes for
each IP ECN field value in the received packets using
AccECN option. This change implements AccECN option tx & rx
side processing without option send control related features
that are added by a later change.
Based on specification:
https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-tcpm-accurate-ecn-28.txt
(Some features of the spec will be added in the later changes
rather than in this one).
A full-length AccECN option is always attempted but if it does
not fit, the minimum length is selected based on the counters
that have changed since the last update. The AccECN option
(with 24-bit fields) often ends in odd sizes so the option
write code tries to take advantage of some nop used to pad
the other TCP options.
The delivered_ecn_bytes pairs with received_ecn_bytes similar
to how delivered_ce pairs with received_ce. In contrast to
ACE field, however, the option is not always available to update
delivered_ecn_bytes. For ACK w/o AccECN option, the delivered
bytes calculated based on the cumulative ACK+SACK information
are assigned to one of the counters using an estimation
heuristic to select the most likely ECN byte counter. Any
estimation error is corrected when the next AccECN option
arrives. It may occur that the heuristic gets too confused
when there are enough different byte counter deltas between
ACKs with the AccECN option in which case the heuristic just
gives up on updating the counters for a while.
tcp_ecn_option sysctl can be used to select option sending
mode for AccECN: TCP_ECN_OPTION_DISABLED, TCP_ECN_OPTION_MINIMUM,
and TCP_ECN_OPTION_FULL.
This patch increases the size of tcp_info struct, as there is
no existing holes for new u32 variables. Below are the pahole
outcomes before and after this patch:
[BEFORE THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_info {
[...]
__u32 tcpi_total_rto_time; /* 244 4 */
/* size: 248, cachelines: 4, members: 61 */
}
[AFTER THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_info {
[...]
__u32 tcpi_total_rto_time; /* 244 4 */
__u32 tcpi_received_ce; /* 248 4 */
__u32 tcpi_delivered_e1_bytes; /* 252 4 */
__u32 tcpi_delivered_e0_bytes; /* 256 4 */
__u32 tcpi_delivered_ce_bytes; /* 260 4 */
__u32 tcpi_received_e1_bytes; /* 264 4 */
__u32 tcpi_received_e0_bytes; /* 268 4 */
__u32 tcpi_received_ce_bytes; /* 272 4 */
/* size: 280, cachelines: 5, members: 68 */
}
This patch uses the existing 1-byte holes in the tcp_sock_write_txrx
group for new u8 members, but adds a 4-byte hole in tcp_sock_write_rx
group after the new u32 delivered_ecn_bytes[3] member. Therefore, the
group size of tcp_sock_write_rx is increased from 96 to 112. Below
are the pahole outcomes before and after this patch:
[BEFORE THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_sock {
[...]
u8 received_ce_pending:4; /* 2522: 0 1 */
u8 unused2:4; /* 2522: 4 1 */
/* XXX 1 byte hole, try to pack */
[...]
u32 rcv_rtt_last_tsecr; /* 2668 4 */
[...]
__cacheline_group_end__tcp_sock_write_rx[0]; /* 2728 0 */
[...]
/* size: 3200, cachelines: 50, members: 167 */
}
[AFTER THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_sock {
[...]
u8 received_ce_pending:4;/* 2522: 0 1 */
u8 unused2:4; /* 2522: 4 1 */
u8 accecn_minlen:2; /* 2523: 0 1 */
u8 est_ecnfield:2; /* 2523: 2 1 */
u8 unused3:4; /* 2523: 4 1 */
[...]
u32 rcv_rtt_last_tsecr; /* 2668 4 */
u32 delivered_ecn_bytes[3];/* 2672 12 */
/* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */
[...]
__cacheline_group_end__tcp_sock_write_rx[0]; /* 2744 0 */
[...]
/* size: 3200, cachelines: 50, members: 171 */
}
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ij@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Co-developed-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916082434.100722-7-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Accurate ECN negotiation parts based on the specification:
https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-tcpm-accurate-ecn-28.txt
Accurate ECN is negotiated using ECE, CWR and AE flags in the
TCP header. TCP falls back into using RFC3168 ECN if one of the
ends supports only RFC3168-style ECN.
The AccECN negotiation includes reflecting IP ECN field value
seen in SYN and SYNACK back using the same bits as negotiation
to allow responding to SYN CE marks and to detect ECN field
mangling. CE marks should not occur currently because SYN=1
segments are sent with Non-ECT in IP ECN field (but proposal
exists to remove this restriction).
Reflecting SYN IP ECN field in SYNACK is relatively simple.
Reflecting SYNACK IP ECN field in the final/third ACK of
the handshake is more challenging. Linux TCP code is not well
prepared for using the final/third ACK a signalling channel
which makes things somewhat complicated here.
tcp_ecn sysctl can be used to select the highest ECN variant
(Accurate ECN, ECN, No ECN) that is attemped to be negotiated and
requested for incoming connection and outgoing connection:
TCP_ECN_IN_NOECN_OUT_NOECN, TCP_ECN_IN_ECN_OUT_ECN,
TCP_ECN_IN_ECN_OUT_NOECN, TCP_ECN_IN_ACCECN_OUT_ACCECN,
TCP_ECN_IN_ACCECN_OUT_ECN, and TCP_ECN_IN_ACCECN_OUT_NOECN.
After this patch, the size of tcp_request_sock remains unchanged
and no new holes are added. Below are the pahole outcomes before
and after this patch:
[BEFORE THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_request_sock {
[...]
u32 rcv_nxt; /* 352 4 */
u8 syn_tos; /* 356 1 */
/* size: 360, cachelines: 6, members: 16 */
}
[AFTER THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_request_sock {
[...]
u32 rcv_nxt; /* 352 4 */
u8 syn_tos; /* 356 1 */
bool accecn_ok; /* 357 1 */
u8 syn_ect_snt:2; /* 358: 0 1 */
u8 syn_ect_rcv:2; /* 358: 2 1 */
u8 accecn_fail_mode:4; /* 358: 4 1 */
/* size: 360, cachelines: 6, members: 20 */
}
After this patch, the size of tcp_sock remains unchanged and no new
holes are added. Also, 4 bits of the existing 2-byte hole are exploited.
Below are the pahole outcomes before and after this patch:
[BEFORE THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_sock {
[...]
u8 dup_ack_counter:2; /* 2761: 0 1 */
u8 tlp_retrans:1; /* 2761: 2 1 */
u8 unused:5; /* 2761: 3 1 */
u8 thin_lto:1; /* 2762: 0 1 */
u8 fastopen_connect:1; /* 2762: 1 1 */
u8 fastopen_no_cookie:1; /* 2762: 2 1 */
u8 fastopen_client_fail:2; /* 2762: 3 1 */
u8 frto:1; /* 2762: 5 1 */
/* XXX 2 bits hole, try to pack */
[...]
u8 keepalive_probes; /* 2765 1 */
/* XXX 2 bytes hole, try to pack */
[...]
/* size: 3200, cachelines: 50, members: 164 */
}
[AFTER THIS PATCH]
struct tcp_sock {
[...]
u8 dup_ack_counter:2; /* 2761: 0 1 */
u8 tlp_retrans:1; /* 2761: 2 1 */
u8 syn_ect_snt:2; /* 2761: 3 1 */
u8 syn_ect_rcv:2; /* 2761: 5 1 */
u8 thin_lto:1; /* 2761: 7 1 */
u8 fastopen_connect:1; /* 2762: 0 1 */
u8 fastopen_no_cookie:1; /* 2762: 1 1 */
u8 fastopen_client_fail:2; /* 2762: 2 1 */
u8 frto:1; /* 2762: 4 1 */
/* XXX 3 bits hole, try to pack */
[...]
u8 keepalive_probes; /* 2765 1 */
u8 accecn_fail_mode:4; /* 2766: 0 1 */
/* XXX 4 bits hole, try to pack */
/* XXX 1 byte hole, try to pack */
[...]
/* size: 3200, cachelines: 50, members: 166 */
}
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ij@kernel.org>
Co-developed-by: Olivier Tilmans <olivier.tilmans@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Olivier Tilmans <olivier.tilmans@nokia.com>
Co-developed-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250916082434.100722-3-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Convert SCTP cookies to use HMAC-SHA256, instead of the previous choice
of the legacy algorithms HMAC-MD5 and HMAC-SHA1. Simplify and optimize
the code by using the HMAC-SHA256 library instead of crypto_shash, and
by preparing the HMAC key when it is generated instead of per-operation.
This doesn't break compatibility, since the cookie format is an
implementation detail, not part of the SCTP protocol itself.
Note that the cookie size doesn't change either. The HMAC field was
already 32 bytes, even though previously at most 20 bytes were actually
compared. 32 bytes exactly fits an untruncated HMAC-SHA256 value. So,
although we could safely truncate the MAC to something slightly shorter,
for now just keep the cookie size the same.
I also considered SipHash, but that would generate only 8-byte MACs. An
8-byte MAC *might* suffice here. However, there's quite a lot of
information in the SCTP cookies: more than in TCP SYN cookies. So
absent an analysis that occasional forgeries of all that information is
okay in SCTP, I errored on the side of caution.
Remove HMAC-MD5 and HMAC-SHA1 as options, since the new HMAC-SHA256
option is just better. It's faster as well as more secure. For
example, benchmarking on x86_64, cookie authentication is now nearly 3x
as fast as the previous default choice and implementation of HMAC-MD5.
Also just make the kernel always support cookie authentication if SCTP
is supported at all, rather than making it optional in the build. (It
was sort of optional before, but it didn't really work properly. E.g.,
a kernel with CONFIG_SCTP_COOKIE_HMAC_MD5=n still supported HMAC-MD5
cookie authentication if CONFIG_CRYPTO_HMAC and CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5
happened to be enabled in the kconfig for other reasons.)
Acked-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250818205426.30222-5-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
It is currently impossible to enable ipv6 forwarding on a per-interface
basis like in ipv4. To enable forwarding on an ipv6 interface we need to
enable it on all interfaces and disable it on the other interfaces using
a netfilter rule. This is especially cumbersome if you have lots of
interfaces and only want to enable forwarding on a few. According to the
sysctl docs [0] the `net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding` enables forwarding
for all interfaces, while the interface-specific
`net.ipv6.conf.<interface>.forwarding` configures the interface
Host/Router configuration.
Introduce a new sysctl flag `force_forwarding`, which can be set on every
interface. The ip6_forwarding function will then check if the global
forwarding flag OR the force_forwarding flag is active and forward the
packet.
To preserve backwards-compatibility reset the flag (on all interfaces)
to 0 if the net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding flag is set to 0.
Add a short selftest that checks if a packet gets forwarded with and
without `force_forwarding`.
[0]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Goller <g.goller@proxmox.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250722081847.132632-1-g.goller@proxmox.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
RACK-TLP loss detection has been enabled as the default loss detection
algorithm for Linux TCP since 2018, in:
commit b38a51fec1 ("tcp: disable RFC6675 loss detection")
In case users ran into unexpected bugs or performance regressions,
that commit allowed Linux system administrators to revert to using
RFC3517/RFC6675 loss recovery by setting net.ipv4.tcp_recovery to 0.
In the seven years since 2018, our team has not heard reports of
anyone reverting Linux TCP to use RFC3517/RFC6675 loss recovery, and
we can't find any record in web searches of such a revert.
RACK-TLP was published as a standards-track RFC, RFC8985, in February
2021.
Several other major TCP implementations have default-enabled RACK-TLP
at this point as well.
RACK-TLP offers several significant performance advantages over
RFC3517/RFC6675 loss recovery, including much better performance in
the common cases of tail drops, lost retransmissions, and reordering.
It is now time to remove the obsolete and unused RFC3517/RFC6675 loss
recovery code. This will allow a substantial simplification of the
Linux TCP code base, and removes 12 bytes of state in every tcp_sock
for 64-bit machines (8 bytes on 32-bit machines).
To arrange the commits in reasonable sizes, this patch series is split
into 3 commits. The following 2 commits remove bookkeeping state and
code that is no longer needed after this removal of RFC3517/RFC6675
loss recovery.
Suggested-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250615001435.2390793-2-ncardwell.sw@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
DCCP was orphaned in 2021 by commit 054c4610bd ("MAINTAINERS: dccp:
move Gerrit Renker to CREDITS"), which noted that the last maintainer
had been inactive for five years.
In recent years, it has become a playground for syzbot, and most changes
to DCCP have been odd bug fixes triggered by syzbot. Apart from that,
the only changes have been driven by treewide or networking API updates
or adjustments related to TCP.
Thus, in 2023, we announced we would remove DCCP in 2025 via commit
b144fcaf46 ("dccp: Print deprecation notice.").
Since then, only one individual has contacted the netdev mailing list. [0]
There is ongoing research for Multipath DCCP. The repository is hosted
on GitHub [1], and development is not taking place through the upstream
community. While the repository is published under the GPLv2 license,
the scheduling part remains proprietary, with a LICENSE file [2] stating:
"This is not Open Source software."
The researcher mentioned a plan to address the licensing issue, upstream
the patches, and step up as a maintainer, but there has been no further
communication since then.
Maintaining DCCP for a decade without any real users has become a burden.
Therefore, it's time to remove it.
Removing DCCP will also provide significant benefits to TCP. It allows
us to freely reorganize the layout of struct inet_connection_sock, which
is currently shared with DCCP, and optimize it to reduce the number of
cachelines accessed in the TCP fast path.
Note that we keep DCCP netfilter modules as requested. [3]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230710182253.81446-1-kuniyu@amazon.com/T/#u #[0]
Link: https://github.com/telekom/mp-dccp #[1]
Link: https://github.com/telekom/mp-dccp/blob/mpdccp_v03_k5.10/net/dccp/non_gpl_scheduler/LICENSE #[2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/Z_VQ0KlCRkqYWXa-@calendula/ #[3]
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> (LSM and SELinux)
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250410023921.11307-3-kuniyu@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Support adjusting/reading RTO MIN for socket level by using set/getsockopt().
This new option has the same effect as TCP_BPF_RTO_MIN, which means it
doesn't affect RTAX_RTO_MIN usage (by using ip route...). Considering that
bpf option was implemented before this patch, so we need to use a standalone
new option for pure tcp set/getsockopt() use.
When the socket is created, its icsk_rto_min is set to the default
value that is controlled by sysctl_tcp_rto_min_us. Then if application
calls setsockopt() with TCP_RTO_MIN_US flag to pass a valid value, then
icsk_rto_min will be overridden in jiffies unit.
This patch adds WRITE_ONCE/READ_ONCE to avoid data-race around
icsk_rto_min.
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250317120314.41404-2-kerneljasonxing@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Previous patch added a TCP_RTO_MAX_MS socket option
to tune a TCP socket max RTO value.
Many setups prefer to change a per netns sysctl.
This patch adds /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rto_max_ms
Its initial value is 120000 (120 seconds).
Keep in mind that a decrease of tcp_rto_max_ms
means shorter overall timeouts, unless tcp_retries2
sysctl is increased.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Today we have a hardcoded delay of 1 sec before a TIME-WAIT socket can be
reused by reopening a connection. This is a safe choice based on an
assumption that the other TCP timestamp clock frequency, which is unknown
to us, may be as low as 1 Hz (RFC 7323, section 5.4).
However, this means that in the presence of short lived connections with an
RTT of couple of milliseconds, the time during which a 4-tuple is blocked
from reuse can be orders of magnitude longer that the connection lifetime.
Combined with a reduced pool of ephemeral ports, when using
IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE to share an egress IP address between hosts [1], the
long TIME-WAIT reuse delay can lead to port exhaustion, where all available
4-tuples are tied up in TIME-WAIT state.
Turn the reuse delay into a per-netns setting so that sysadmins can make
more aggressive assumptions about remote TCP timestamp clock frequency and
shorten the delay in order to allow connections to reincarnate faster.
Note that applications can completely bypass the TIME-WAIT delay protection
already today by locking the local port with bind() before connecting. Such
immediate connection reuse may result in PAWS failing to detect old
duplicate segments, leaving us with just the sequence number check as a
safety net.
This new configurable offers a trade off where the sysadmin can balance
between the risk of PAWS detection failing to act versus exhausting ports
by having sockets tied up in TIME-WAIT state for too long.
[1] https://lpc.events/event/16/contributions/1349/
Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@cloudflare.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241209-jakub-krn-909-poc-msec-tw-tstamp-v2-2-66aca0eed03e@cloudflare.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
net.ipv4.nexthop_compat_mode was added when nexthop objects were added to
provide the view of nexthop objects through the usual lens of the route
UAPI. As nexthop objects evolved, the information provided through this
lens became incomplete. For example, details of resilient nexthop groups
are obviously omitted.
Now that 16-bit nexthop group weights are a thing, the 8-bit UAPI cannot
convey the >8-bit weight accurately. Instead of inventing workarounds for
an obsolete interface, just document the expectations of inaccuracy.
Fixes: b72a6a7ab9 ("net: nexthop: Increase weight to u16")
Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/b575e32399ccacd09079b2a218255164535123bd.1733740749.git.petrm@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
draft-ietf-6man-pio-pflag is adding a new flag to the Prefix Information
Option to signal that the network can allocate a unique IPv6 prefix per
client via DHCPv6-PD (see draft-ietf-v6ops-dhcp-pd-per-device).
When ra_honor_pio_pflag is enabled, the presence of a P-flag causes
SLAAC autoconfiguration to be disabled for that particular PIO.
An automated test has been added in Android (r.android.com/3195335) to
go along with this change.
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Cc: David Lamparter <equinox@opensourcerouting.org>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Rohr <prohr@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When calculating hashes for the purpose of multipath forwarding, both IPv4
and IPv6 code currently fall back on flow_hash_from_keys(). That uses a
randomly-generated seed. That's a fine choice by default, but unfortunately
some deployments may need a tighter control over the seed used.
In this patch, make the seed configurable by adding a new sysctl key,
net.ipv4.fib_multipath_hash_seed to control the seed. This seed is used
specifically for multipath forwarding and not for the other concerns that
flow_hash_from_keys() is used for, such as queue selection. Expose the knob
as sysctl because other such settings, such as headers to hash, are also
handled that way. Like those, the multipath hash seed is a per-netns
variable.
Despite being placed in the net.ipv4 namespace, the multipath seed sysctl
is used for both IPv4 and IPv6, similarly to e.g. a number of TCP
variables.
The seed used by flow_hash_from_keys() is a 128-bit quantity. However it
seems that usually the seed is a much more modest value. 32 bits seem
typical (Cisco, Cumulus), some systems go even lower. For that reason, and
to decouple the user interface from implementation details, go with a
32-bit quantity, which is then quadruplicated to form the siphash key.
Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240607151357.421181-3-petrm@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Adding a sysctl knob to allow user to specify a default
rto_min at socket init time, other than using the hard
coded 200ms default rto_min.
Note that the rto_min route option has the highest precedence
for configuring this setting, followed by the TCP_BPF_RTO_MIN
socket option, followed by the tcp_rto_min_us sysctl.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Yang <yyd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Lu <tonylu@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If the preferred lifetime was less than the minimum required lifetime,
ipv6_create_tempaddr would error out without creating any new address.
On my machine and network, this error happened immediately with the
preferred lifetime set to 5 seconds or less, after a few minutes with
the preferred lifetime set to 6 seconds, and not at all with the
preferred lifetime set to 7 seconds. During my investigation, I found a
Stack Exchange post from another person who seems to have had the same
problem: They stopped getting new addresses if they lowered the
preferred lifetime below 3 seconds, and they didn't really know why.
The preferred lifetime is a preference, not a hard requirement. The
kernel does not strictly forbid new connections on a deprecated address,
nor does it guarantee that the address will be disposed of the instant
its total valid lifetime expires. So rather than disable IPv6 privacy
extensions altogether if the minimum required lifetime swells above the
preferred lifetime, it is more in keeping with the user's intent to
increase the temporary address's lifetime to the minimum necessary for
the current network conditions.
With these fixes, setting the preferred lifetime to 5 or 6 seconds "just
works" because the extra fraction of a second is practically
unnoticeable. It's even possible to reduce the time before deprecation
to 1 or 2 seconds by setting /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/*/regen_min_advance
and /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/*/dad_transmits to 0. I realize that that is
a pretty niche use case, but I know at least one person who would gladly
sacrifice performance and convenience to be sure that they are getting
the maximum possible level of privacy.
Link: https://serverfault.com/a/1031168/310447
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
In RFC 8981, REGEN_ADVANCE cannot be less than 2 seconds, and the RFC
does not permit the creation of temporary addresses with lifetimes
shorter than that:
> When processing a Router Advertisement with a
> Prefix Information option carrying a prefix for the purposes of
> address autoconfiguration (i.e., the A bit is set), the host MUST
> perform the following steps:
> 5. A temporary address is created only if this calculated preferred
> lifetime is greater than REGEN_ADVANCE time units.
However, some users want to change their IPv6 address as frequently as
possible regardless of the RFC's arbitrary minimum lifetime. For the
benefit of those users, add a regen_min_advance sysctl parameter that
can be set to below or above 2 seconds.
Link: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8981
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
TCP pingpong threshold is 1 by default. But some applications, like SQL DB
may prefer a higher pingpong threshold to activate delayed acks in quick
ack mode for better performance.
The pingpong threshold and related code were changed to 3 in the year
2019 in:
commit 4a41f453be ("tcp: change pingpong threshold to 3")
And reverted to 1 in the year 2022 in:
commit 4d8f24eeed ("Revert "tcp: change pingpong threshold to 3"")
There is no single value that fits all applications.
Add net.ipv4.tcp_pingpong_thresh sysctl tunable, so it can be tuned for
optimal performance based on the application needs.
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1697056244-21888-1-git-send-email-haiyangz@microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
This change adds a sysctl to opt-out of RFC4862 section 5.5.3e's valid
lifetime derivation mechanism.
RFC4862 section 5.5.3e prescribes that the valid lifetime in a Router
Advertisement PIO shall be ignored if it less than 2 hours and to reset
the lifetime of the corresponding address to 2 hours. An in-progress
6man draft (see draft-ietf-6man-slaac-renum-07 section 4.2) is currently
looking to remove this mechanism. While this draft has not been moving
particularly quickly for other reasons, there is widespread consensus on
section 4.2 which updates RFC4862 section 5.5.3e.
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Cc: Jen Linkova <furry@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Rohr <prohr@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230925214711.959704-1-prohr@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
This idea came after a particular workload requested
the quickack attribute set on routes, and a performance
drop was noticed for large bulk transfers.
For high throughput flows, it is best to use one cpu
running the user thread issuing socket system calls,
and a separate cpu to process incoming packets from BH context.
(With TSO/GRO, bottleneck is usually the 'user' cpu)
Problem is the user thread can spend a lot of time while holding
the socket lock, forcing BH handler to queue most of incoming
packets in the socket backlog.
Whenever the user thread releases the socket lock, it must first
process all accumulated packets in the backlog, potentially
adding latency spikes. Due to flood mitigation, having too many
packets in the backlog increases chance of unexpected drops.
Backlog processing unfortunately shifts a fair amount of cpu cycles
from the BH cpu to the 'user' cpu, thus reducing max throughput.
This patch takes advantage of the backlog processing,
and the fact that ACK are mostly cumulative.
The idea is to detect we are in the backlog processing
and defer all eligible ACK into a single one,
sent from tcp_release_cb().
This saves cpu cycles on both sides, and network resources.
Performance of a single TCP flow on a 200Gbit NIC:
- Throughput is increased by 20% (100Gbit -> 120Gbit).
- Number of generated ACK per second shrinks from 240,000 to 40,000.
- Number of backlog drops per second shrinks from 230 to 0.
Benchmark context:
- Regular netperf TCP_STREAM (no zerocopy)
- Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8481C (Saphire Rapids)
- MAX_SKB_FRAGS = 17 (~60KB per GRO packet)
This feature is guarded by a new sysctl, and enabled by default:
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_backlog_ack_defer
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Acked-by: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
accept_ra_min_rtr_lft only considered the lifetime of the default route
and discarded entire RAs accordingly.
This change renames accept_ra_min_rtr_lft to accept_ra_min_lft, and
applies the value to individual RA sections; in particular, router
lifetime, PIO preferred lifetime, and RIO lifetime. If any of those
lifetimes are lower than the configured value, the specific RA section
is ignored.
In order for the sysctl to be useful to Android, it should really apply
to all lifetimes in the RA, since that is what determines the minimum
frequency at which RAs must be processed by the kernel. Android uses
hardware offloads to drop RAs for a fraction of the minimum of all
lifetimes present in the RA (some networks have very frequent RAs (5s)
with high lifetimes (2h)). Despite this, we have encountered networks
that set the router lifetime to 30s which results in very frequent CPU
wakeups. Instead of disabling IPv6 (and dropping IPv6 ethertype in the
WiFi firmware) entirely on such networks, it seems better to ignore the
misconfigured routers while still processing RAs from other IPv6 routers
on the same network (i.e. to support IoT applications).
The previous implementation dropped the entire RA based on router
lifetime. This turned out to be hard to expand to the other lifetimes
present in the RA in a consistent manner; dropping the entire RA based
on RIO/PIO lifetimes would essentially require parsing the whole thing
twice.
Fixes: 1671bcfd76 ("net: add sysctl accept_ra_min_rtr_lft")
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Rohr <prohr@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230726230701.919212-1-prohr@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
This change adds a new sysctl accept_ra_min_rtr_lft to specify the
minimum acceptable router lifetime in an RA. If the received RA router
lifetime is less than the configured value (and not 0), the RA is
ignored.
This is useful for mobile devices, whose battery life can be impacted
by networks that configure RAs with a short lifetime. On such networks,
the device should never gain IPv6 provisioning and should attempt to
drop RAs via hardware offload, if available.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Rohr <prohr@google.com>
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
With modern NIC drivers shifting to full page allocations per
received frame, we face the following issue:
TCP has one per-netns sysctl used to tweak how to translate
a memory use into an expected payload (RWIN), in RX path.
tcp_win_from_space() implementation is limited to few cases.
For hosts dealing with various MSS, we either under estimate
or over estimate the RWIN we send to the remote peers.
For instance with the default sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale value,
we expect to store 50% of payload per allocated chunk of memory.
For the typical use of MTU=1500 traffic, and order-0 pages allocations
by NIC drivers, we are sending too big RWIN, leading to potential
tcp collapse operations, which are extremely expensive and source
of latency spikes.
This patch makes sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale obsolete, and instead
uses a per socket scaling factor, so that we can precisely
adjust the RWIN based on effective skb->len/skb->truesize ratio.
This patch alone can double TCP receive performance when receivers
are too slow to drain their receive queue, or by allowing
a bigger RWIN when MSS is close to PAGE_SIZE.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230717152917.751987-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
