[PATCH] net/tcp: Only produce AO/MD5 logs if there are any keys

From: Dmitry Safonov
Date: Thu Jan 04 2024 - 08:42:57 EST


User won't care about inproper hash options in the TCP header if they
don't use neither TCP-AO nor TCP-MD5. Yet, those logs can add up in
syslog, while not being a real concern to the host admin:
> kernel: TCP: TCP segment has incorrect auth options set for XX.20.239.12.54681->XX.XX.90.103.80 [S]

Keep silent and avoid logging when there aren't any keys in the system.

Side-note: I also defined static_branch_tcp_*() helpers to avoid more
ifdeffery, going to remove more ifdeffery further with their help.

Reported-by: Christian Kujau <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/f6b59324-1417-566f-a976-ff2402718a8d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/net/tcp.h | 2 --
include/net/tcp_ao.h | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index 144ba48bb07b..87f0e6c2e1f2 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -1788,8 +1788,6 @@ struct tcp_md5sig_key *tcp_v4_md5_lookup(const struct sock *sk,
const struct sock *addr_sk);

#ifdef CONFIG_TCP_MD5SIG
-#include <linux/jump_label.h>
-extern struct static_key_false_deferred tcp_md5_needed;
struct tcp_md5sig_key *__tcp_md5_do_lookup(const struct sock *sk, int l3index,
const union tcp_md5_addr *addr,
int family, bool any_l3index);
diff --git a/include/net/tcp_ao.h b/include/net/tcp_ao.h
index 647781080613..b04afced4cc9 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp_ao.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp_ao.h
@@ -127,12 +127,35 @@ struct tcp_ao_info {
struct rcu_head rcu;
};

+#ifdef CONFIG_TCP_MD5SIG
+#include <linux/jump_label.h>
+extern struct static_key_false_deferred tcp_md5_needed;
+#define static_branch_tcp_md5() static_branch_unlikely(&tcp_md5_needed.key)
+#else
+#define static_branch_tcp_md5() false
+#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_TCP_AO
+/* TCP-AO structures and functions */
+#include <linux/jump_label.h>
+extern struct static_key_false_deferred tcp_ao_needed;
+#define static_branch_tcp_ao() static_branch_unlikely(&tcp_ao_needed.key)
+#else
+#define static_branch_tcp_ao() false
+#endif
+
+static inline bool tcp_hash_should_produce_warnings(void)
+{
+ return static_branch_tcp_md5() || static_branch_tcp_ao();
+}
+
#define tcp_hash_fail(msg, family, skb, fmt, ...) \
do { \
const struct tcphdr *th = tcp_hdr(skb); \
char hdr_flags[6]; \
char *f = hdr_flags; \
\
+ if (!tcp_hash_should_produce_warnings()) \
+ break; \
if (th->fin) \
*f++ = 'F'; \
if (th->syn) \
@@ -159,9 +182,6 @@ do { \

#ifdef CONFIG_TCP_AO
/* TCP-AO structures and functions */
-#include <linux/jump_label.h>
-extern struct static_key_false_deferred tcp_ao_needed;
-
struct tcp4_ao_context {
__be32 saddr;
__be32 daddr;

---
base-commit: ac865f00af293d081356bec56eea90815094a60e
change-id: 20240104-tcp_hash_fail-logs-daa1a4dde694

Best regards,
--
Dmitry Safonov <dima@xxxxxxxxxx>