tcp: avoid spurious SYN flood detection at listen() time
At listen() time, there is a small window where listener is visible with
a zero backlog, triggering a spurious "Possible SYN flooding on port"
message.
Nothing prevents us from setting the correct backlog.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h b/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h
index 3208a65..fd645c4 100644
--- a/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h
+++ b/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@
(POLLIN | POLLRDNORM) : 0;
}
-int inet_csk_listen_start(struct sock *sk, const int nr_table_entries);
+int inet_csk_listen_start(struct sock *sk, int backlog);
void inet_csk_listen_stop(struct sock *sk);
void inet_csk_addr2sockaddr(struct sock *sk, struct sockaddr *uaddr);
diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c b/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
index 514b9e9..ba9ec9a 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
@@ -727,14 +727,14 @@
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(inet_csk_prepare_forced_close);
-int inet_csk_listen_start(struct sock *sk, const int nr_table_entries)
+int inet_csk_listen_start(struct sock *sk, int backlog)
{
struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk);
struct inet_sock *inet = inet_sk(sk);
reqsk_queue_alloc(&icsk->icsk_accept_queue);
- sk->sk_max_ack_backlog = 0;
+ sk->sk_max_ack_backlog = backlog;
sk->sk_ack_backlog = 0;
inet_csk_delack_init(sk);