Re: [PATCH] tcp: Add listening address to SYN flood message

[Andrew Lunn]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 09:21:06PM +1100, Jamie Bainbridge wrote:
> The SYN flood message prints the listening port number, but on a system
> with many processes bound to the same port on different IPs, it's
> impossible to tell which socket is the problem.
> 
> Add the listen IP address to the SYN flood message. It might have been
> nicer to print the address first, but decades of monitoring tools are
> watching for the string "SYN flooding on port" so don't break that.
> 
> Tested with each protcol's "any" address and a host address:
> 
>  Possible SYN flooding on port 9001. IP 0.0.0.0.
>  Possible SYN flooding on port 9001. IP 127.0.0.1.
>  Possible SYN flooding on port 9001. IP ::.
>  Possible SYN flooding on port 9001. IP fc00::1.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jamie Bainbridge <jamie.bainbridge@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
> index 0640453fce54b6daae0861d948f3db075830daf6..fb86056732266fedc8ad574bbf799dbdd7a425a3 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
> @@ -6831,9 +6831,19 @@ static bool tcp_syn_flood_action(const struct sock *sk, const char *proto)
>  		__NET_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPREQQFULLDROP);
>  
>  	if (!queue->synflood_warned && syncookies != 2 &&
> -	    xchg(&queue->synflood_warned, 1) == 0)
> -		net_info_ratelimited("%s: Possible SYN flooding on port %d. %s.  Check SNMP counters.\n",
> -				     proto, sk->sk_num, msg);
> +	    xchg(&queue->synflood_warned, 1) == 0) {
> +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
> +		if (sk->sk_family == AF_INET6) {

Can the IS_ENABLED() go inside the if? You get better build testing
that way.

     Andrew