tipc: buffer overflow handling in listener socket

Default socket receive buffer size for a listener socket is 2Mb. For
each arriving empty SYN, the linux kernel allocates a 768 bytes buffer.
This means that a listener socket can serve maximum 2700 simultaneous
empty connection setup requests before it hits a receive buffer
overflow, and much fewer if the SYN is carrying any significant
amount of data.

When this happens the setup request is rejected, and the client
receives an ECONNREFUSED error.

This commit mitigates this problem by letting the client socket try to
retransmit the SYN message multiple times when it sees it rejected with
the code TIPC_ERR_OVERLOAD. Retransmission is done at random intervals
in the range of [100 ms, setup_timeout / 4], as many times as there is
room for within the setup timeout limit.

Signed-off-by: Tung Nguyen <tung.q.nguyen@dektech.com.au>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/tipc/msg.c b/net/tipc/msg.c
index 00fbb5c4b2ef..f48e5857210f 100644
--- a/net/tipc/msg.c
+++ b/net/tipc/msg.c
@@ -525,6 +525,10 @@ bool tipc_msg_reverse(u32 own_node,  struct sk_buff **skb, int err)
 	if (hlen == SHORT_H_SIZE)
 		hlen = BASIC_H_SIZE;
 
+	/* Don't return data along with SYN+, - sender has a clone */
+	if (msg_is_syn(_hdr) && err == TIPC_ERR_OVERLOAD)
+		dlen = 0;
+
 	/* Allocate new buffer to return */
 	*skb = tipc_buf_acquire(hlen + dlen, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!*skb)
@@ -552,6 +556,22 @@ exit:
 	return false;
 }
 
+bool tipc_msg_skb_clone(struct sk_buff_head *msg, struct sk_buff_head *cpy)
+{
+	struct sk_buff *skb, *_skb;
+
+	skb_queue_walk(msg, skb) {
+		_skb = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
+		if (!_skb) {
+			__skb_queue_purge(cpy);
+			pr_err_ratelimited("Failed to clone buffer chain\n");
+			return false;
+		}
+		__skb_queue_tail(cpy, _skb);
+	}
+	return true;
+}
+
 /**
  * tipc_msg_lookup_dest(): try to find new destination for named message
  * @skb: the buffer containing the message.