tcp: add small random increments to the source port
Here we're randomly adding between 0 and 7 random increments to the selected source port in order to add some noise in the source port selection that will make the next port less predictable. With the default port range of 32768-60999 this means a worst case reuse scenario of 14116/8=1764 connections between two consecutive uses of the same port, with an average of 14116/4.5=3137. This code was stressed at more than 800000 connections per second to a fixed target with all connections closed by the client using RSTs (worst condition) and only 2 connections failed among 13 billion, despite the hash being reseeded every 10 seconds, indicating a perfectly safe situation. Cc: Moshe Kol <moshe.kol@mail.huji.ac.il> Cc: Yossi Gilad <yossi.gilad@mail.huji.ac.il> Cc: Amit Klein <aksecurity@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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