[nginx] HTTP/2: flood detection.

Maxim Dounin mdounin at mdounin.ru
Tue Nov 6 15:23:39 UTC 2018


details:   http://hg.nginx.org/nginx/rev/d4448892a294
branches:  
changeset: 7377:d4448892a294
user:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru at nginx.com>
date:      Tue Nov 06 16:29:35 2018 +0300
description:
HTTP/2: flood detection.

Fixed uncontrolled memory growth in case peer is flooding us with
some frames (e.g., SETTINGS and PING) and doesn't read data.  Fix
is to limit the number of allocated control frames.

diffstat:

 src/http/v2/ngx_http_v2.c |  12 +++++++++++-
 src/http/v2/ngx_http_v2.h |   1 +
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diffs (47 lines):

diff --git a/src/http/v2/ngx_http_v2.c b/src/http/v2/ngx_http_v2.c
--- a/src/http/v2/ngx_http_v2.c
+++ b/src/http/v2/ngx_http_v2.c
@@ -662,6 +662,7 @@ ngx_http_v2_handle_connection(ngx_http_v
 
     h2c->pool = NULL;
     h2c->free_frames = NULL;
+    h2c->frames = 0;
     h2c->free_fake_connections = NULL;
 
 #if (NGX_HTTP_SSL)
@@ -2895,7 +2896,7 @@ ngx_http_v2_get_frame(ngx_http_v2_connec
 
         frame->blocked = 0;
 
-    } else {
+    } else if (h2c->frames < 10000) {
         pool = h2c->pool ? h2c->pool : h2c->connection->pool;
 
         frame = ngx_pcalloc(pool, sizeof(ngx_http_v2_out_frame_t));
@@ -2919,6 +2920,15 @@ ngx_http_v2_get_frame(ngx_http_v2_connec
         frame->last = frame->first;
 
         frame->handler = ngx_http_v2_frame_handler;
+
+        h2c->frames++;
+
+    } else {
+        ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_INFO, h2c->connection->log, 0,
+                      "http2 flood detected");
+
+        h2c->connection->error = 1;
+        return NULL;
     }
 
 #if (NGX_DEBUG)
diff --git a/src/http/v2/ngx_http_v2.h b/src/http/v2/ngx_http_v2.h
--- a/src/http/v2/ngx_http_v2.h
+++ b/src/http/v2/ngx_http_v2.h
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ struct ngx_http_v2_connection_s {
     ngx_http_connection_t           *http_connection;
 
     ngx_uint_t                       processing;
+    ngx_uint_t                       frames;
 
     ngx_uint_t                       pushing;
     ngx_uint_t                       concurrent_pushes;


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