[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "ipvs: Fix reuse connection if real server is dead" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ipvs: Fix reuse connection if real server is dead

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From: Grzegorz Lyczba <grzegorz.lyczba at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 23:56:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ipvs: Fix reuse connection if real server is dead

commit dc7b3eb900aab02e5cafbca3948d005be13fb4a5 upstream.

Expire cached connection for new TCP/SCTP connection if real
server is down. Otherwise, IPVS uses the dead server for the
reused connection, instead of a new working one.

Signed-off-by: Grzegorz Lyczba <grzegorz.lyczba at gmail.com>
Acked-by: Hans Schillstrom <hans at schillstrom.com>
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja at ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo at netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
index 47edf5a..85972e4 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
@@ -1002,6 +1002,32 @@ static inline int is_tcp_reset(const struct sk_buff *skb, int nh_len)
 	return th->rst;
 }

+static inline bool is_new_conn(const struct sk_buff *skb,
+			       struct ip_vs_iphdr *iph)
+{
+	switch (iph->protocol) {
+	case IPPROTO_TCP: {
+		struct tcphdr _tcph, *th;
+
+		th = skb_header_pointer(skb, iph->len, sizeof(_tcph), &_tcph);
+		if (th == NULL)
+			return false;
+		return th->syn;
+	}
+	case IPPROTO_SCTP: {
+		sctp_chunkhdr_t *sch, schunk;
+
+		sch = skb_header_pointer(skb, iph->len + sizeof(sctp_sctphdr_t),
+					 sizeof(schunk), &schunk);
+		if (sch == NULL)
+			return false;
+		return sch->type == SCTP_CID_INIT;
+	}
+	default:
+		return false;
+	}
+}
+
 /* Handle response packets: rewrite addresses and send away...
  */
 static unsigned int
@@ -1627,6 +1653,15 @@ ip_vs_in(unsigned int hooknum, struct sk_buff *skb, int af)
 	 * Check if the packet belongs to an existing connection entry
 	 */
 	cp = pp->conn_in_get(af, skb, &iph, 0);
+
+	if (unlikely(sysctl_expire_nodest_conn(ipvs)) && cp && cp->dest &&
+	    unlikely(!atomic_read(&cp->dest->weight)) && !iph.fragoffs &&
+	    is_new_conn(skb, &iph)) {
+		ip_vs_conn_expire_now(cp);
+		__ip_vs_conn_put(cp);
+		cp = NULL;
+	}
+
 	if (unlikely(!cp) && !iph.fragoffs) {
 		/* No (second) fragments need to enter here, as nf_defrag_ipv6
 		 * replayed fragment zero will already have created the cp
--
1.8.1.2