svn commit: r337788 - head/share/man/man4
Jonathan T. Looney
jtl at FreeBSD.org
Tue Aug 14 17:36:22 UTC 2018
Author: jtl
Date: Tue Aug 14 17:36:21 2018
New Revision: 337788
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/337788
Log:
Update the inet(4) and inet6(4) man pages to reflect the changes made
to the reassembly code in r337778, r337780, r337781, r337782, and
r337783.
Security: FreeBSD-SA-18:10.ip
Security: CVE-2018-6923
Modified:
head/share/man/man4/inet.4
head/share/man/man4/inet6.4
Modified: head/share/man/man4/inet.4
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man4/inet.4 Tue Aug 14 17:32:07 2018 (r337787)
+++ head/share/man/man4/inet.4 Tue Aug 14 17:36:21 2018 (r337788)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" From: @(#)inet.4 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd Feb 4, 2016
+.Dd August 14, 2018
.Dt INET 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -229,15 +229,38 @@ At the same time, on high-speed links, it can decrease
cycle greatly.
Default is 0 (sequential IP IDs).
IPv6 flow IDs and fragment IDs are always random.
+.It Va ip.maxfrags
+Integer: maximum number of fragments the host will accept and simultaneously
+hold across all reassembly queues in all VNETs.
+If set to 0, reassembly is disabled.
+If set to -1, this limit is not applied.
+This limit is recalculated when the number of mbuf clusters is changed.
+This is a global limit.
.It Va ip.maxfragpackets
-Integer: maximum number of fragmented packets the host will accept and hold
-in the reassembling queue simultaneously.
-0 means that the host will not accept any fragmented packets.
-\-1 means that the host will accept as many fragmented packets as it receives.
+Integer: maximum number of fragmented packets the host will accept and
+simultaneously hold in the reassembly queue for a particular VNET.
+0 means that the host will not accept any fragmented packets for that VNET.
+\-1 means that the host will not apply this limit for that VNET.
+This limit is recalculated when the number of mbuf clusters is changed.
+This is a per-VNET limit.
+.It Va ip.maxfragbucketsize
+Integer: maximum number of reassembly queues per bucket.
+Fragmented packets are hashed to buckets.
+Each bucket has a list of reassembly queues.
+The system must compare the incoming packets to the existing reassembly queues
+in the bucket to find a matching reassembly queue.
+To preserve system resources, the system limits the number of reassembly
+queues allowed in each bucket.
+This limit is recalculated when the number of mbuf clusters is changed or
+when the value of
+.Va ip.maxfragpackets
+changes.
+This is a per-VNET limit.
.It Va ip.maxfragsperpacket
Integer: maximum number of fragments the host will accept and hold
-in the reassembling queue for a packet.
-0 means that the host will not accept any fragmented packets.
+in the reassembly queue for a packet.
+0 means that the host will not accept any fragmented packets for the VNET.
+This is a per-VNET limit.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ioctl 2 ,
Modified: head/share/man/man4/inet6.4
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man4/inet6.4 Tue Aug 14 17:32:07 2018 (r337787)
+++ head/share/man/man4/inet6.4 Tue Aug 14 17:36:21 2018 (r337788)
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd September 2, 2009
+.Dd August 14, 2018
.Dt INET6 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -219,12 +219,41 @@ packets.
This value applies to all the transport protocols on top of
.Tn IPv6 .
There are APIs to override the value.
+.It Dv IPV6CTL_MAXFRAGS
+.Pq ip6.maxfrags
+Integer: maximum number of fragments the host will accept and simultaneously
+hold across all reassembly queues in all VNETs.
+If set to 0, fragment reassembly is disabled.
+If set to -1, this limit is not applied.
+This limit is recalculated when the number of mbuf clusters is changed.
+This is a global limit.
.It Dv IPV6CTL_MAXFRAGPACKETS
.Pq ip6.maxfragpackets
-Integer: default maximum number of fragmented packets the node will accept.
-0 means that the node will not accept any fragmented packets.
--1 means that the node will accept as many fragmented packets as it receives.
-The flag is provided basically for avoiding possible DoS attacks.
+Integer: maximum number of fragmented packets the node will accept and
+simultaneously hold in the reassembly queue for a particular VNET.
+0 means that the node will not accept any fragmented packets for that VNET.
+-1 means that the node will not apply this limit for that VNET.
+This limit is recalculated when the number of mbuf clusters is changed.
+This is a per-VNET limit.
+.It Dv IPV6CTL_MAXFRAGBUCKETSIZE
+.Pq ip6.maxfragbucketsize
+Integer: maximum number of reassembly queues per bucket.
+Fragmented packets are hashed to buckets.
+Each bucket has a list of reassembly queues.
+The system must compare the incoming packets to the existing reassembly queues
+in the bucket to find a matching reassembly queue.
+To preserve system resources, the system limits the number of reassembly
+queues allowed in each bucket.
+This limit is recalculated when the number of mbuf clusters is changed or
+when the value of
+.Va ip6.maxfragpackets
+changes.
+This is a per-VNET limit.
+.It Dv IPV6CTL_MAXFRAGSPERPACKET
+.Pq ip6.maxfragsperpacket
+Integer: maximum number of fragments the host will accept and hold in the
+ressembly queue for a packet.
+This is a per-VNET limit.
.It Dv IPV6CTL_ACCEPT_RTADV
.Pq ip6.accept_rtadv
Boolean: the default value of a per-interface flag to
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