tcp: do not create inetpeer on SYNACK message
Another problem on SYNFLOOD/DDOS attack is the inetpeer cache getting
larger and larger, using lots of memory and cpu time.
tcp_v4_send_synack()
->inet_csk_route_req()
->ip_route_output_flow()
->rt_set_nexthop()
->rt_init_metrics()
->inet_getpeer( create = true)
This is a side effect of commit a4daad6b09230 (net: Pre-COW metrics for
TCP) added in 2.6.39
Possible solution :
Instruct inet_csk_route_req() to remove FLOWI_FLAG_PRECOW_METRICS
Before patch :
# grep peer /proc/slabinfo
inet_peer_cache 4175430 4175430 192 42 2 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 99415 99415 0
Samples: 41K of event 'cycles', Event count (approx.): 30716565122
+ 20,24% ksoftirqd/0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] inet_getpeer
+ 8,19% ksoftirqd/0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] peer_avl_rebalance.isra.1
+ 4,81% ksoftirqd/0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sha_transform
+ 3,64% ksoftirqd/0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] fib_table_lookup
+ 2,36% ksoftirqd/0 [ixgbe] [k] ixgbe_poll
+ 2,16% ksoftirqd/0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __ip_route_output_key
+ 2,11% ksoftirqd/0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] kernel_map_pages
+ 2,11% ksoftirqd/0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ip_route_input_common
+ 2,01% ksoftirqd/0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __inet_lookup_established
+ 1,83% ksoftirqd/0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] md5_transform
+ 1,75% ksoftirqd/0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] check_leaf.isra.9
+ 1,49% ksoftirqd/0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ipt_do_table
+ 1,46% ksoftirqd/0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] hrtimer_interrupt
+ 1,45% ksoftirqd/0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] kmem_cache_alloc
+ 1,29% ksoftirqd/0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] inet_csk_search_req
+ 1,29% ksoftirqd/0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __netif_receive_skb
+ 1,16% ksoftirqd/0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] copy_user_generic_string
+ 1,15% ksoftirqd/0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] kmem_cache_free
+ 1,02% ksoftirqd/0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] tcp_make_synack
+ 0,93% ksoftirqd/0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock_bh
+ 0,87% ksoftirqd/0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __call_rcu
+ 0,84% ksoftirqd/0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] rt_garbage_collect
+ 0,84% ksoftirqd/0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] fib_rules_lookup
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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