tcp: Change possible SYN flooding messages

"Possible SYN flooding on port xxxx " messages can fill logs on servers.

Change logic to log the message only once per listener, and add two new
SNMP counters to track :

TCPReqQFullDoCookies : number of times a SYNCOOKIE was replied to client

TCPReqQFullDrop : number of times a SYN request was dropped because
syncookies were not enabled.

Based on a prior patch from Tom Herbert, and suggestions from David.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

2 files changed, 30 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/proc.c b/net/ipv4/proc.c
index b14ec7d03b6e..4bfad5da94f4 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/proc.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/proc.c
@@ -254,6 +254,8 @@ static const struct snmp_mib snmp4_net_list[] = {
 	SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPDeferAcceptDrop", LINUX_MIB_TCPDEFERACCEPTDROP),
 	SNMP_MIB_ITEM("IPReversePathFilter", LINUX_MIB_IPRPFILTER),
 	SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPTimeWaitOverflow", LINUX_MIB_TCPTIMEWAITOVERFLOW),
+	SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPReqQFullDoCookies", LINUX_MIB_TCPREQQFULLDOCOOKIES),
+	SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPReqQFullDrop", LINUX_MIB_TCPREQQFULLDROP),
 	SNMP_MIB_SENTINEL
 };
 
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
index 1c12b8ec849d..c34f01513945 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
@@ -808,20 +808,38 @@ static void tcp_v4_reqsk_destructor(struct request_sock *req)
 	kfree(inet_rsk(req)->opt);
 }
 
-static void syn_flood_warning(const struct sk_buff *skb)
+/*
+ * Return 1 if a syncookie should be sent
+ */
+int tcp_syn_flood_action(struct sock *sk,
+			 const struct sk_buff *skb,
+			 const char *proto)
 {
-	const char *msg;
+	const char *msg = "Dropping request";
+	int want_cookie = 0;
+	struct listen_sock *lopt;
+
+
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES
-	if (sysctl_tcp_syncookies)
+	if (sysctl_tcp_syncookies) {
 		msg = "Sending cookies";
-	else
+		want_cookie = 1;
+		NET_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPREQQFULLDOCOOKIES);
+	} else
 #endif
-		msg = "Dropping request";
+		NET_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPREQQFULLDROP);
 
-	pr_info("TCP: Possible SYN flooding on port %d. %s.\n",
-				ntohs(tcp_hdr(skb)->dest), msg);
+	lopt = inet_csk(sk)->icsk_accept_queue.listen_opt;
+	if (!lopt->synflood_warned) {
+		lopt->synflood_warned = 1;
+		pr_info("%s: Possible SYN flooding on port %d. %s. "
+			" Check SNMP counters.\n",
+			proto, ntohs(tcp_hdr(skb)->dest), msg);
+	}
+	return want_cookie;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(tcp_syn_flood_action);
 
 /*
  * Save and compile IPv4 options into the request_sock if needed.
@@ -1235,11 +1253,7 @@ int tcp_v4_conn_request(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	__be32 saddr = ip_hdr(skb)->saddr;
 	__be32 daddr = ip_hdr(skb)->daddr;
 	__u32 isn = TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->when;
-#ifdef CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES
 	int want_cookie = 0;
-#else
-#define want_cookie 0 /* Argh, why doesn't gcc optimize this :( */
-#endif
 
 	/* Never answer to SYNs send to broadcast or multicast */
 	if (skb_rtable(skb)->rt_flags & (RTCF_BROADCAST | RTCF_MULTICAST))
@@ -1250,14 +1264,9 @@ int tcp_v4_conn_request(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	 * evidently real one.
 	 */
 	if (inet_csk_reqsk_queue_is_full(sk) && !isn) {
-		if (net_ratelimit())
-			syn_flood_warning(skb);
-#ifdef CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES
-		if (sysctl_tcp_syncookies) {
-			want_cookie = 1;
-		} else
-#endif
-		goto drop;
+		want_cookie = tcp_syn_flood_action(sk, skb, "TCP");
+		if (!want_cookie)
+			goto drop;
 	}
 
 	/* Accept backlog is full. If we have already queued enough
@@ -1303,9 +1312,7 @@ int tcp_v4_conn_request(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 		while (l-- > 0)
 			*c++ ^= *hash_location++;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES
 		want_cookie = 0;	/* not our kind of cookie */
-#endif
 		tmp_ext.cookie_out_never = 0; /* false */
 		tmp_ext.cookie_plus = tmp_opt.cookie_plus;
 	} else if (!tp->rx_opt.cookie_in_always) {