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Eric Dumazet a904a0693c inet: stop leaking jiffies on the wire
Historically linux tried to stick to RFC 791, 1122, 2003
for IPv4 ID field generation.

RFC 6864 made clear that no matter how hard we try,
we can not ensure unicity of IP ID within maximum
lifetime for all datagrams with a given source
address/destination address/protocol tuple.

Linux uses a per socket inet generator (inet_id), initialized
at connection startup with a XOR of 'jiffies' and other
fields that appear clear on the wire.

Thiemo Nagel pointed that this strategy is a privacy
concern as this provides 16 bits of entropy to fingerprint
devices.

Let's switch to a random starting point, this is just as
good as far as RFC 6864 is concerned and does not leak
anything critical.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Thiemo Nagel <tnagel@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-11-01 14:57:52 -07:00
arch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-10-19 17:09:11 -04:00
block blk-rq-qos: fix first node deletion of rq_qos_del() 2019-10-15 10:13:13 -06:00
certs PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature() 2019-08-05 18:40:18 -04:00
crypto Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-09-28 08:14:15 -07:00
Documentation Merge branch '1GbE' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/net-queue 2019-11-01 14:50:27 -07:00
drivers inet: stop leaking jiffies on the wire 2019-11-01 14:57:52 -07:00
fs Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-10-19 06:53:59 -04:00
include net: increase SOMAXCONN to 4096 2019-10-31 14:01:40 -07:00
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ipc ipc/sem.c: convert to use built-in RCU list checking 2019-09-25 17:51:41 -07:00
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LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm mm/thp: allow dropping THP from page cache 2019-10-19 06:32:33 -04:00
net inet: stop leaking jiffies on the wire 2019-11-01 14:57:52 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: Add a workaround for asm_inline 2019-10-03 17:37:11 +02:00
scripts scripts/gdb: fix debugging modules on s390 2019-10-19 06:32:33 -04:00
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sound ALSA: hda - Force runtime PM on Nvidia HDMI codecs 2019-10-17 17:45:32 +02:00
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virt KVM/arm fixes for 5.4, take #1 2019-10-03 12:08:50 +02:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Simon as Renesas SoC Co-Maintainer 2019-10-10 08:12:51 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
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MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: remove Dave Watson as TLS maintainer 2019-10-29 17:53:16 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.4-rc3 2019-10-13 16:37:36 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.