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Tom Herbert 1eed4dfb81 flow_dissector: Add limit for number of headers to dissect
In flow dissector there are no limits to the number of nested
encapsulations or headers that might be dissected which makes for a
nice DOS attack. This patch sets a limit of the number of headers
that flow dissector will parse.

Headers includes network layer headers, transport layer headers, shim
headers for encapsulation, IPv6 extension headers, etc. The limit for
maximum number of headers to parse has be set to fifteen to account for
a reasonable number of encapsulations, extension headers, VLAN,
in a packet. Note that this limit does not supercede the STOP_AT_*
flags which may stop processing before the headers limit is reached.

Reported-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <tom@quantonium.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-09-05 11:40:08 -07:00
arch net: Remove CONFIG_NETFILTER_DEBUG and _ASSERT() macros. 2017-09-04 13:25:20 +02:00
block blk-mq-debugfs: Add names for recently added flags 2017-08-25 08:07:44 -06:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: algif_skcipher - only call put_page on referenced and used pages 2017-08-22 14:45:48 +08:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf-next 2017-09-03 17:08:42 -07:00
drivers Merge branch 'for-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bluetooth/bluetooth-next 2017-09-03 21:27:55 -07:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-09-01 17:42:05 -07:00
include flow_dissector: Cleanup control flow 2017-09-05 11:40:08 -07:00
init random: do not ignore early device randomness 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
ipc ipc: add missing container_of()s for randstruct 2017-08-02 17:16:12 -07:00
kernel bpf: fix numa_node validation 2017-09-05 09:10:02 -07:00
lib Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf-next 2017-09-03 17:08:42 -07:00
mm Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-08-31 17:56:56 -07:00
net flow_dissector: Add limit for number of headers to dissect 2017-09-05 11:40:08 -07:00
samples bpf: Add lru_hash_lookup performance test 2017-09-01 09:57:38 -07:00
scripts scripts/dtc: fix '%zx' warning 2017-08-31 16:33:15 -07:00
security netfilter: nf_hook_ops structs can be const 2017-07-31 19:10:44 +02:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v4.13 2017-08-31 14:08:26 +02:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-09-01 17:42:05 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt KVM: update to new mmu_notifier semantic v2 2017-08-31 16:13:00 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
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CREDITS avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture 2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: migrate all arch to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade 2010-09-19 22:54:11 -04:00
MAINTAINERS staging: irda: update MAINTAINERS 2017-08-29 09:30:00 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.13-rc7 2017-08-27 17:20:40 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

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

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.