[NETFILTER]: tcp conntrack: do liberal tracking for picked up connections

Do liberal tracking (only RSTs need to be in-window) for connections picked
up without seeing a SYN to deal with window scaling. Also change logging
of invalid packets not to log packets accepted by liberal tracking to avoid
spamming the logs.

Based on suggestion from James Ralston <ralston@pobox.com>

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 25 deletions

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c
index 626b0011dd8..6fccdcf43e0 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c
@@ -60,12 +60,9 @@ static DEFINE_RWLOCK(tcp_lock);
     If it's non-zero, we mark only out of window RST segments as INVALID. */
 int nf_ct_tcp_be_liberal __read_mostly = 0;
 
-/* When connection is picked up from the middle, how many packets are required
-   to pass in each direction when we assume we are in sync - if any side uses
-   window scaling, we lost the game. 
-   If it is set to zero, we disable picking up already established 
+/* If it is set to zero, we disable picking up already established
    connections. */
-int nf_ct_tcp_loose __read_mostly = 3;
+int nf_ct_tcp_loose __read_mostly = 1;
 
 /* Max number of the retransmitted packets without receiving an (acceptable) 
    ACK from the destination. If this number is reached, a shorter timer 
@@ -650,11 +647,10 @@ static int tcp_in_window(struct ip_ct_tcp *state,
 	    	before(sack, receiver->td_end + 1),
 	    	after(ack, receiver->td_end - MAXACKWINDOW(sender)));
 
-	if (sender->loose || receiver->loose ||
-	    (before(seq, sender->td_maxend + 1) &&
-	     after(end, sender->td_end - receiver->td_maxwin - 1) &&
-	     before(sack, receiver->td_end + 1) &&
-	     after(ack, receiver->td_end - MAXACKWINDOW(sender)))) {
+	if (before(seq, sender->td_maxend + 1) &&
+	    after(end, sender->td_end - receiver->td_maxwin - 1) &&
+	    before(sack, receiver->td_end + 1) &&
+	    after(ack, receiver->td_end - MAXACKWINDOW(sender))) {
 	    	/*
 		 * Take into account window scaling (RFC 1323).
 		 */
@@ -699,15 +695,13 @@ static int tcp_in_window(struct ip_ct_tcp *state,
 				state->retrans = 0;
 			}
 		}
-		/*
-		 * Close the window of disabled window tracking :-)
-		 */
-		if (sender->loose)
-			sender->loose--;
-
 		res = 1;
 	} else {
-		if (LOG_INVALID(IPPROTO_TCP))
+		res = 0;
+		if (sender->flags & IP_CT_TCP_FLAG_BE_LIBERAL ||
+		    nf_ct_tcp_be_liberal)
+			res = 1;
+		if (!res && LOG_INVALID(IPPROTO_TCP))
 			nf_log_packet(pf, 0, skb, NULL, NULL, NULL,
 			"nf_ct_tcp: %s ",
 			before(seq, sender->td_maxend + 1) ?
@@ -718,8 +712,6 @@ static int tcp_in_window(struct ip_ct_tcp *state,
 			: "ACK is over the upper bound (ACKed data not seen yet)"
 			: "SEQ is under the lower bound (already ACKed data retransmitted)"
 			: "SEQ is over the upper bound (over the window of the receiver)");
-
-		res = nf_ct_tcp_be_liberal;
   	}
   
 	DEBUGP("tcp_in_window: res=%i sender end=%u maxend=%u maxwin=%u "
@@ -1063,8 +1055,6 @@ static int tcp_new(struct nf_conn *conntrack,
 
 		tcp_options(skb, dataoff, th, &conntrack->proto.tcp.seen[0]);
 		conntrack->proto.tcp.seen[1].flags = 0;
-		conntrack->proto.tcp.seen[0].loose = 
-		conntrack->proto.tcp.seen[1].loose = 0;
 	} else if (nf_ct_tcp_loose == 0) {
 		/* Don't try to pick up connections. */
 		return 0;
@@ -1085,11 +1075,11 @@ static int tcp_new(struct nf_conn *conntrack,
 			conntrack->proto.tcp.seen[0].td_maxwin;
 		conntrack->proto.tcp.seen[0].td_scale = 0;
 
-		/* We assume SACK. Should we assume window scaling too? */
+		/* We assume SACK and liberal window checking to handle
+		 * window scaling */
 		conntrack->proto.tcp.seen[0].flags =
-		conntrack->proto.tcp.seen[1].flags = IP_CT_TCP_FLAG_SACK_PERM;
-		conntrack->proto.tcp.seen[0].loose = 
-		conntrack->proto.tcp.seen[1].loose = nf_ct_tcp_loose;
+		conntrack->proto.tcp.seen[1].flags = IP_CT_TCP_FLAG_SACK_PERM |
+						     IP_CT_TCP_FLAG_BE_LIBERAL;
 	}
     
 	conntrack->proto.tcp.seen[1].td_end = 0;