From 6547a221871f139cc56328a38105d47c14874cbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Westphal Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:31:28 +0200 Subject: netfilter: nf_conntrack: avoid large timeout for mid-stream pickup When loose tracking is enabled (default), non-syn packets cause creation of new conntracks in established state with default timeout for established state (5 days). This causes the table to fill up with UNREPLIED when the 'new ack' packet happened to be the last-ack of a previous, already timed-out connection. Consider: A 192.168.x.52792 > 10.184.y.80: F, 426:426(0) ack 9237 win 255 B 10.184.y.80 > 192.168.x.52792: ., ack 427 win 123 <61 second pause> C 10.184.y.80 > 192.168.x.52792: F, 9237:9237(0) ack 427 win 123 D 192.168.x.52792 > 10.184.y.80: ., ack 9238 win 255 B moves conntrack to CLOSE_WAIT and will kill it after 60 second timeout, C is ignored (FIN set), but last packet (D) causes new ct with 5-days timeout. Use UNACK timeout (5 minutes) instead to get rid of these entries sooner when in ESTABLISHED state without having seen traffic in both directions. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Acked-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso --- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c index 4d4d8f1..7dcc376 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c @@ -1043,6 +1043,12 @@ static int tcp_packet(struct nf_conn *ct, nf_ct_kill_acct(ct, ctinfo, skb); return NF_ACCEPT; } + /* ESTABLISHED without SEEN_REPLY, i.e. mid-connection + * pickup with loose=1. Avoid large ESTABLISHED timeout. + */ + if (new_state == TCP_CONNTRACK_ESTABLISHED && + timeout > timeouts[TCP_CONNTRACK_UNACK]) + timeout = timeouts[TCP_CONNTRACK_UNACK]; } else if (!test_bit(IPS_ASSURED_BIT, &ct->status) && (old_state == TCP_CONNTRACK_SYN_RECV || old_state == TCP_CONNTRACK_ESTABLISHED) -- cgit v1.1