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    net: bridge: Track and limit dynamically learned FDB entries · bdb4dfda
    Johannes Nixdorf authored
    A malicious actor behind one bridge port may spam the kernel with packets
    with a random source MAC address, each of which will create an FDB entry,
    each of which is a dynamic allocation in the kernel.
    
    There are roughly 2^48 different MAC addresses, further limited by the
    rhashtable they are stored in to 2^31. Each entry is of the type struct
    net_bridge_fdb_entry, which is currently 128 bytes big. This means the
    maximum amount of memory allocated for FDB entries is 2^31 * 128B =
    256GiB, which is too much for most computers.
    
    Mitigate this by maintaining a per bridge count of those automatically
    generated entries in fdb_n_learned, and a limit in fdb_max_learned. If
    the limit is hit new entries are not learned anymore.
    
    For backwards compatibility the default setting of 0 disables the limit.
    
    User-added entries by netlink or from bridge or bridge port addresses
    are never blocked and do not count towards that limit.
    
    Introduce a new fdb entry flag BR_FDB_DYNAMIC_LEARNED to keep track of
    whether an FDB entry is included in the count. The flag is enabled for
    dynamically learned entries, and disabled for all other entries. This
    should be equivalent to BR_FDB_ADDED_BY_USER and BR_FDB_LOCAL being unset,
    but contrary to the two flags it can be toggled atomically.
    
    Atomicity is required here, as there are multiple callers that modify the
    flags, but are not under a common lock (br_fdb_update is the exception
    for br->hash_lock, br_fdb_external_learn_add for RTNL).
    Reviewed-by: default avatarIdo Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarNikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Nixdorf <jnixdorf-oss@avm.de>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231016-fdb_limit-v5-2-32cddff87758@avm.deSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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