This essentially reverts commit 7212303268 ("tcp: md5: reject TCP_MD5SIG
or TCP_MD5SIG_EXT on established sockets")
Mathieu reported that many vendors BGP implementations can
actually switch TCP MD5 on established flows.
Quoting Mathieu :
Here is a list of a few network vendors along with their behavior
with respect to TCP MD5:
- Cisco: Allows for password to be changed, but within the hold-down
timer (~180 seconds).
- Juniper: When password is initially set on active connection it will
reset, but after that any subsequent password changes no network
resets.
- Nokia: No notes on if they flap the tcp connection or not.
- Ericsson/RedBack: Allows for 2 password (old/new) to co-exist until
both sides are ok with new passwords.
- Meta-Switch: Expects the password to be set before a connection is
attempted, but no further info on whether they reset the TCP
connection on a change.
- Avaya: Disable the neighbor, then set password, then re-enable.
- Zebos: Would normally allow the change when socket connected.
We can revert my prior change because commit 9424e2e7ad ("tcp: md5: fix potential
overestimation of TCP option space") removed the leak of 4 kernel bytes to
the wire that was the main reason for my patch.
While doing my investigations, I found a bug when a MD5 key is changed, leading
to these commits that stable teams want to consider before backporting this revert :
Commit 6a2febec33 ("tcp: md5: add missing memory barriers in tcp_md5_do_add()/tcp_md5_hash_key()")
Commit e6ced831ef ("tcp: md5: refine tcp_md5_do_add()/tcp_md5_hash_key() barriers")
Fixes: 7212303268 "tcp: md5: reject TCP_MD5SIG or TCP_MD5SIG_EXT on established sockets"
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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