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diff --git a/tcp-make-challenge-acks-less-predictable.patch b/tcp-make-challenge-acks-less-predictable.patch
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@@ -1,81 +0,0 @@
-From 0af29b4f03b40fe0980c31d18e352f2ef19ec703 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
-Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 10:04:02 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] tcp: make challenge acks less predictable
-
-Yue Cao claims that current host rate limiting of challenge ACKS
-(RFC 5961) could leak enough information to allow a patient attacker
-to hijack TCP sessions. He will soon provide details in an academic
-paper.
-
-This patch increases the default limit from 100 to 1000, and adds
-some randomization so that the attacker can no longer hijack
-sessions without spending a considerable amount of probes.
-
-Based on initial analysis and patch from Linus.
-
-Note that we also have per socket rate limiting, so it is tempting
-to remove the host limit in the future.
-
-v2: randomize the count of challenge acks per second, not the period.
-
-Fixes: 282f23c6ee34 ("tcp: implement RFC 5961 3.2")
-Reported-by: Yue Cao <ycao009@ucr.edu>
-Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
-Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
-Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
-Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
-Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
-Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
----
- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
-index d6c8f4cd0800..91868bb17818 100644
---- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
-+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
-@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ int sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale __read_mostly = 1;
- EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale);
-
- /* rfc5961 challenge ack rate limiting */
--int sysctl_tcp_challenge_ack_limit = 100;
-+int sysctl_tcp_challenge_ack_limit = 1000;
-
- int sysctl_tcp_stdurg __read_mostly;
- int sysctl_tcp_rfc1337 __read_mostly;
-@@ -3458,7 +3458,7 @@ static void tcp_send_challenge_ack(struct sock *sk, const struct sk_buff *skb)
- static u32 challenge_timestamp;
- static unsigned int challenge_count;
- struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
-- u32 now;
-+ u32 count, now;
-
- /* First check our per-socket dupack rate limit. */
- if (tcp_oow_rate_limited(sock_net(sk), skb,
-@@ -3466,13 +3466,18 @@ static void tcp_send_challenge_ack(struct sock *sk, const struct sk_buff *skb)
- &tp->last_oow_ack_time))
- return;
-
-- /* Then check the check host-wide RFC 5961 rate limit. */
-+ /* Then check host-wide RFC 5961 rate limit. */
- now = jiffies / HZ;
- if (now != challenge_timestamp) {
-+ u32 half = (sysctl_tcp_challenge_ack_limit + 1) >> 1;
-+
- challenge_timestamp = now;
-- challenge_count = 0;
-+ WRITE_ONCE(challenge_count, half +
-+ prandom_u32_max(sysctl_tcp_challenge_ack_limit));
- }
-- if (++challenge_count <= sysctl_tcp_challenge_ack_limit) {
-+ count = READ_ONCE(challenge_count);
-+ if (count > 0) {
-+ WRITE_ONCE(challenge_count, count - 1);
- NET_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPCHALLENGEACK);
- tcp_send_ack(sk);
- }
---
-2.5.5
-