sctp: Follow security requirement of responding with 1 packet

RFC 4960, Section 11.4. Protection of Non-SCTP-Capable Hosts

When an SCTP stack receives a packet containing multiple control or
DATA chunks and the processing of the packet requires the sending of
multiple chunks in response, the sender of the response chunk(s) MUST
NOT send more than one packet.  If bundling is supported, multiple
response chunks that fit into a single packet MAY be bundled together
into one single response packet.  If bundling is not supported, then
the sender MUST NOT send more than one response chunk and MUST
discard all other responses.  Note that this rule does NOT apply to a
SACK chunk, since a SACK chunk is, in itself, a response to DATA and
a SACK does not require a response of more DATA.

We implement this by not servicing our outqueue until we reach the end
of the packet.  This enables maximum bundling.  We also identify
'response' chunks and make sure that we only send 1 packet when sending
such chunks.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/sctp/structs.h b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
index fbc27ac..82116e8 100644
--- a/include/net/sctp/structs.h
+++ b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
@@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ struct sctp_packet *sctp_packet_init(struct sctp_packet *,
 				     __u16 sport, __u16 dport);
 struct sctp_packet *sctp_packet_config(struct sctp_packet *, __u32 vtag, int);
 sctp_xmit_t sctp_packet_transmit_chunk(struct sctp_packet *,
-                                       struct sctp_chunk *);
+                                       struct sctp_chunk *, int);
 sctp_xmit_t sctp_packet_append_chunk(struct sctp_packet *,
                                      struct sctp_chunk *);
 int sctp_packet_transmit(struct sctp_packet *);