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Date:      Wed, 14 Apr 2021 20:06:26 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 255065] Accept filters do not timeout inactive
Message-ID:  <bug-255065-227@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>

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            Bug ID: 255065
           Summary: Accept filters do not timeout inactive
           Product: Base System
           Version: 12.2-STABLE
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Many People
          Priority: ---
         Component: kern
          Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: dave@jetcafe.org

The accept filter mechanism apparently has no methodology to timeout inacti=
ve
connections. This allows one to connect to an application using accept filt=
er,
and simply hold the connection open indefinitely without sending data.=20

Sockets that connect to an accept filter should timeout after some reasonab=
le
period of inactivity.

This ancient bug is related:=20

  https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D29774

I do realize this behavior is (thankfully) limited by the setting of
kern.ipc.soacceptqueue, which defaults to 4096. I also realize that the 409=
7th
socket will cause the oldest socket to be dropped by the kernel. Even so, t=
his
is still a potential waste of resource.=20

Is it possible to allow an explicit timeout to be set, either by sysctl or =
by
API?

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