ipv6: tcp: drop silly ICMPv6 packet too big messages
While TCP stack scales reasonably well, there is still one part that can be used to DDOS it. IPv6 Packet too big messages have to lookup/insert a new route, and if abused by attackers, can easily put hosts under high stress, with many cpus contending on a spinlock while one is stuck in fib6_run_gc() ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu() icmpv6_rcv() icmpv6_notify() tcp_v6_err() tcp_v6_mtu_reduced() inet6_csk_update_pmtu() ip6_rt_update_pmtu() __ip6_rt_update_pmtu() ip6_rt_cache_alloc() ip6_dst_alloc() dst_alloc() ip6_dst_gc() fib6_run_gc() spin_lock_bh() ... Some of our servers have been hit by malicious ICMPv6 packets trying to _increase_ the MTU/MSS of TCP flows. We believe these ICMPv6 packets are a result of a bug in one ISP stack, since they were blindly sent back for _every_ (small) packet sent to them. These packets are for one TCP flow: 09:24:36.266491 IP6 Addr1...
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