[ 11/23] tcp: drop SYN+FIN messages

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

From: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>

commit fdf5af0daf8019cec2396cdef8fb042d80fe71fa upstream.

Denys Fedoryshchenko reported that SYN+FIN attacks were bringing his
linux machines to their limits.

Dont call conn_request() if the TCP flags includes SYN flag

Reported-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -5761,6 +5761,8 @@ int tcp_rcv_state_process(struct sock *s
 			goto discard;
 
 		if (th->syn) {
+			if (th->fin)
+				goto discard;
 			if (icsk->icsk_af_ops->conn_request(sk, skb) < 0)
 				return 1;
 


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