tcp: enable data-less, empty-cookie SYN with TFO_SERVER_COOKIE_NOT_REQD
Since the original TFO server code was implemented in commit 168a8f58 ("tcp: TCP Fast Open Server - main code path") the TFO server code has supported the sysctl bit flag TFO_SERVER_COOKIE_NOT_REQD. Currently, when the TFO_SERVER_ENABLE and TFO_SERVER_COOKIE_NOT_REQD sysctl bit flags are set, a server connection will accept a SYN with N bytes of data (N > 0) that has no TFO cookie, create a new fast open connection, process the incoming data in the SYN, and make the connection ready for accepting. After accepting, the connection is ready for read()/recvmsg() to read the N bytes of data in the SYN, ready for write()/sendmsg() calls and data transmissions to transmit data. This commit changes an edge case in this feature by changing this behavior to apply to (N >= 0) bytes of data in the SYN rather than only (N > 0) bytes of data in the SYN. Now, a server will accept a data-less SYN without a TFO cookie if TFO_SERVER_COOKIE_NOT_REQD is set. Caveat! While this enables a new kind of TFO (data-less empty-cookie SYN), some firewall rules setup may not work if they assume such packets are not legit TFOs and will filter them. Signed-off-by: Luke Hsiao <lukehsiao@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210816205105.2533289-1-luke.w.hsiao@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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