tcp: add tcp_syncookies mode to allow unconditionally generation of syncookies
| If you want to test which effects syncookies have to your
| network connections you can set this knob to 2 to enable
| unconditionally generation of syncookies.
Original idea and first implementation by Eric Dumazet.
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
index b792e87..38c196c 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
@@ -963,7 +963,8 @@
if (!ipv6_unicast_destination(skb))
goto drop;
- if (inet_csk_reqsk_queue_is_full(sk) && !isn) {
+ if ((sysctl_tcp_syncookies == 2 ||
+ inet_csk_reqsk_queue_is_full(sk)) && !isn) {
want_cookie = tcp_syn_flood_action(sk, skb, "TCPv6");
if (!want_cookie)
goto drop;