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author | Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> | 2014-06-15 00:59:14 +0200 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-06-15 01:17:32 -0700 |
commit | b58537a1f5629bdc98a8b9dc2051ce0e952f6b4b (patch) | |
tree | 48ac36dadd2e162b27ead7bdd630d0efa1e0ea0d /net | |
parent | e4f7ae930afafd4d9d67449657fefe51010c3349 (diff) |
net: sctp: fix permissions for rto_alpha and rto_beta knobs
Commit 3fd091e73b81 ("[SCTP]: Remove multiple levels of msecs
to jiffies conversions.") has silently changed permissions for
rto_alpha and rto_beta knobs from 0644 to 0444. The purpose of
this was to discourage users from tweaking rto_alpha and
rto_beta knobs in production environments since they are key
to correctly compute rtt/srtt.
RFC4960 under section 6.3.1. RTO Calculation says regarding
rto_alpha and rto_beta under rule C3 and C4:
[...]
C3) When a new RTT measurement R' is made, set
RTTVAR <- (1 - RTO.Beta) * RTTVAR + RTO.Beta * |SRTT - R'|
and
SRTT <- (1 - RTO.Alpha) * SRTT + RTO.Alpha * R'
Note: The value of SRTT used in the update to RTTVAR
is its value before updating SRTT itself using the
second assignment. After the computation, update
RTO <- SRTT + 4 * RTTVAR.
C4) When data is in flight and when allowed by rule C5
below, a new RTT measurement MUST be made each round
trip. Furthermore, new RTT measurements SHOULD be
made no more than once per round trip for a given
destination transport address. There are two reasons
for this recommendation: First, it appears that
measuring more frequently often does not in practice
yield any significant benefit [ALLMAN99]; second,
if measurements are made more often, then the values
of RTO.Alpha and RTO.Beta in rule C3 above should be
adjusted so that SRTT and RTTVAR still adjust to
changes at roughly the same rate (in terms of how many
round trips it takes them to reflect new values) as
they would if making only one measurement per
round-trip and using RTO.Alpha and RTO.Beta as given
in rule C3. However, the exact nature of these
adjustments remains a research issue.
[...]
While it is discouraged to adjust rto_alpha and rto_beta
and not further specified how to adjust them, the RFC also
doesn't explicitly forbid it, but rather gives a RECOMMENDED
default value (rto_alpha=3, rto_beta=2). We have a couple
of users relying on the old permissions before they got
changed. That said, if someone really has the urge to adjust
them, we could allow it with a warning in the log.
Fixes: 3fd091e73b81 ("[SCTP]: Remove multiple levels of msecs to jiffies conversions.")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r-- | net/sctp/sysctl.c | 32 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/sctp/sysctl.c b/net/sctp/sysctl.c index 7e5eb755499..dcb19592761 100644 --- a/net/sctp/sysctl.c +++ b/net/sctp/sysctl.c @@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ * Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> */ +#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt + #include <net/sctp/structs.h> #include <net/sctp/sctp.h> #include <linux/sysctl.h> @@ -46,6 +48,11 @@ static int sack_timer_min = 1; static int sack_timer_max = 500; static int addr_scope_max = 3; /* check sctp_scope_policy_t in include/net/sctp/constants.h for max entries */ static int rwnd_scale_max = 16; +static int rto_alpha_min = 0; +static int rto_beta_min = 0; +static int rto_alpha_max = 1000; +static int rto_beta_max = 1000; + static unsigned long max_autoclose_min = 0; static unsigned long max_autoclose_max = (MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT / HZ > UINT_MAX) @@ -64,6 +71,9 @@ static int proc_sctp_do_rto_min(struct ctl_table *ctl, int write, static int proc_sctp_do_rto_max(struct ctl_table *ctl, int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); +static int proc_sctp_do_alpha_beta(struct ctl_table *ctl, int write, + void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, + loff_t *ppos); static int proc_sctp_do_auth(struct ctl_table *ctl, int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); @@ -126,15 +136,19 @@ static struct ctl_table sctp_net_table[] = { .procname = "rto_alpha_exp_divisor", .data = &init_net.sctp.rto_alpha, .maxlen = sizeof(int), - .mode = 0444, - .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = proc_sctp_do_alpha_beta, + .extra1 = &rto_alpha_min, + .extra2 = &rto_alpha_max, }, { .procname = "rto_beta_exp_divisor", .data = &init_net.sctp.rto_beta, .maxlen = sizeof(int), - .mode = 0444, - .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = proc_sctp_do_alpha_beta, + .extra1 = &rto_beta_min, + .extra2 = &rto_beta_max, }, { .procname = "max_burst", @@ -403,6 +417,16 @@ static int proc_sctp_do_rto_max(struct ctl_table *ctl, int write, return ret; } +static int proc_sctp_do_alpha_beta(struct ctl_table *ctl, int write, + void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, + loff_t *ppos) +{ + pr_warn_once("Changing rto_alpha or rto_beta may lead to " + "suboptimal rtt/srtt estimations!\n"); + + return proc_dointvec_minmax(ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); +} + static int proc_sctp_do_auth(struct ctl_table *ctl, int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) |