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The current behavior of IP defragmentation is inconsistent:
- some overlapping/wrong length fragments are dropped without
affecting the queue;
- most overlapping fragments cause the whole frag queue to be dropped.
This patch brings consistency: if a bad fragment is detected,
the whole frag queue is dropped. Two major benefits:
- fail fast: corrupted frag queues are cleared immediately, instead of
by timeout;
- testing of overlapping fragments is now much easier: any kind of
random fragment length mutation now leads to the frag queue being
discarded (IP packet dropped); before this patch, some overlaps were
"corrected", with tests not seeing expected packet drops.
Note that in one case (see "if (end&7)" conditional) the current
behavior is preserved as there are concerns that this could be
legitimate padding.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oskolkov <posk@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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