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This scenario is not limited to ASCONF, just taken as one example triggering the issue. When receiving ASCONF probes in the form of ... -------------- INIT[ASCONF; ASCONF_ACK] -------------> <----------- INIT-ACK[ASCONF; ASCONF_ACK] ------------ -------------------- COOKIE-ECHO --------------------> <-------------------- COOKIE-ACK --------------------- ---- ASCONF_a; [ASCONF_b; ...; ASCONF_n;] JUNK ------> [...] ---- ASCONF_m; [ASCONF_o; ...; ASCONF_z;] JUNK ------> ... where ASCONF_a, ASCONF_b, ..., ASCONF_z are good-formed ASCONFs and have increasing serial numbers, we process such ASCONF chunk(s) marked with !end_of_packet and !singleton, since we have not yet reached the SCTP packet end. SCTP does only do verification on a chunk by chunk basis, as an SCTP packet is nothing more than just a container of a stream of chunks which it eats up one by one. We could run into the case that we receive a packet with a malformed tail, above marked as trailing JUNK. All previous chunks are here goodformed, so the stack will eat up all previous chunks up to this point. In case JUNK does not fit into a chunk header and there are no more other chunks in the input queue, or in case JUNK contains a garbage chunk header, but the encoded chunk length would exceed the skb tail, or we came here from an entirely different scenario and the chunk has pdiscard=1 mark (without having had a flush point), it will happen, that we will excessively queue up the association's output queue (a correct final chunk may then turn it into a response flood when flushing the queue ;)): I ran a simple script with incremental ASCONF serial numbers and could see the server side consuming excessive amount of RAM [before/after: up to 2GB and more]. The issue at heart is that the chunk train basically ends with !end_of_packet and !singleton markers and since commit |
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| associola.c | ||
| auth.c | ||
| bind_addr.c | ||
| chunk.c | ||
| debug.c | ||
| endpointola.c | ||
| input.c | ||
| inqueue.c | ||
| ipv6.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Makefile | ||
| objcnt.c | ||
| output.c | ||
| outqueue.c | ||
| primitive.c | ||
| probe.c | ||
| proc.c | ||
| protocol.c | ||
| sm_make_chunk.c | ||
| sm_sideeffect.c | ||
| sm_statefuns.c | ||
| sm_statetable.c | ||
| socket.c | ||
| ssnmap.c | ||
| sysctl.c | ||
| transport.c | ||
| tsnmap.c | ||
| ulpevent.c | ||
| ulpqueue.c | ||