tcp: accept RST without ACK flag

commit c3ae62af8e755 (tcp: should drop incoming frames without ACK flag
set) added a regression on the handling of RST messages.

RST should be allowed to come even without ACK bit set. We validate
the RST by checking the exact sequence, as requested by RFC 793 and
5961 3.2, in tcp_validate_incoming()

Reported-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Tested-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index a28e4db..18f97ca 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -5543,7 +5543,7 @@ slow_path:
        if (len < (th->doff << 2) || tcp_checksum_complete_user(sk, skb))
                goto csum_error;
 
-       if (!th->ack)
+       if (!th->ack && !th->rst)
                goto discard;
 
        /*
@@ -5988,7 +5988,7 @@ int tcp_rcv_state_process(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
                        goto discard;
        }
 
-       if (!th->ack)
+       if (!th->ack && !th->rst)
                goto discard;
 
        if (!tcp_validate_incoming(sk, skb, th, 0))