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Bug #1180

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Possible problem in stream tracking

Added by Gines Lopez over 10 years ago. Updated over 10 years ago.

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Description

Hi,

packet retransmissions from client to server seem to be dropped by Suricata if client has previously sent a FIN packet to server. This could be why our FTP uploads get stuck when network load is high.

In our tests, we are uploading several thousands of 8 KB files from client (192.168.2.2) to server (192.168.3.3). You can see in the attached files a report with the packets of a stuck FTP-DATA connection as captured from the client and from the server. Also, I have attached the suricata debug output belonging to that connection.

Packet No. 43992 in the client-side capture was not received by the server. Client sent finally a FIN and several retransmissions of the lost packet latter, but Suricata might have dropped them because of its transition to CLOSE_WAIT state.

Suricata build info:

This is Suricata version 2.0 RELEASE
Features: DEBUG NFQ PCAP_SET_BUFF LIBPCAP_VERSION_MAJOR=1 AF_PACKET HAVE_PACKET_FANOUT LIBCAP_NG LIBNET1.1 HAVE_HTP_URI_NORMALIZE_HOOK PCRE_JIT 
SIMD support: none
Atomic intrisics: 1 2 4 8 byte(s)
64-bits, Little-endian architecture
GCC version 4.7.2, C version 199901
L1 cache line size (CLS)=64
compiled with LibHTP v0.5.10, linked against LibHTP v0.5.10
Suricata Configuration:
  AF_PACKET support:                       yes
  PF_RING support:                         no
  NFQueue support:                         yes
  IPFW support:                            no
  DAG enabled:                             no
  Napatech enabled:                        no
  Unix socket enabled:                     no
  Detection enabled:                       yes

  libnss support:                          no
  libnspr support:                         no
  libjansson support:                      no
  Prelude support:                         no
  PCRE jit:                                yes
  libluajit:                               no
  libgeoip:                                no
  Non-bundled htp:                         no
  Old barnyard2 support:                   no
  CUDA enabled:                            no

  Suricatasc install:                      yes

  Unit tests enabled:                      no
  Debug output enabled:                    yes
  Debug validation enabled:                no
  Profiling enabled:                       no
  Profiling locks enabled:                 no
  Coccinelle / spatch:                     no

Generic build parameters:
  Installation prefix (--prefix):          /opt/suricata-2.0debug
  Configuration directory (--sysconfdir):  /etc/suricata/
  Log directory (--localstatedir) :        /var/local/suricata-2.0debug/log/suricata/

  Host:                                    x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
  GCC binary:                              gcc
  GCC Protect enabled:                     no
  GCC march native enabled:                no
  GCC Profile enabled:                     no

Files

client-capture.txt (3.27 KB) client-capture.txt Capture of the stuck connection from the client-side Gines Lopez, 04/15/2014 11:04 AM
server-capture.txt (2.28 KB) server-capture.txt Capture of the stuck connection from the server-side Gines Lopez, 04/15/2014 11:05 AM
debug.txt (22 KB) debug.txt Suricata debug output of the stuck connection Gines Lopez, 04/15/2014 11:05 AM
Actions #1

Updated by Anoop Saldanha over 10 years ago

I'm probably wondering if this is because the tcp state transitions for both client and server are maintained in one variable, which will lead to wrong transitions, while the var should either reflect either the client or the server state.

Actions #2

Updated by Victor Julien over 10 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)
  • Status changed from New to Assigned
  • Assignee set to Victor Julien
  • Target version set to 2.0.1rc1
Actions #3

Updated by Victor Julien over 10 years ago

I think I see the issue. The problem seems to be that StreamTcpPacketIsRetransmission() returns 2 different return codes for 2 different cases. It detects retransmissions of already ack'd data (which is thus received by the server) and of un-ack'd data (which may be lost after Suricata saw it). Currently we just flat out reject retransmissions in the CLOSE_WAIT state.

Maybe you can try changing line stream-tcp.c:3597 from

            if (StreamTcpPacketIsRetransmission(&ssn->client, p)) {

to
            if (StreamTcpPacketIsRetransmission(&ssn->client, p) == 2) {

And report back if that solves this case.

If you can (privately) share a pcap it would be great.

Actions #4

Updated by Victor Julien over 10 years ago

Can you try the changes here? https://github.com/inliniac/suricata/pull/935

Actions #5

Updated by Victor Julien over 10 years ago

  • Status changed from Assigned to Closed
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100
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