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avoid unneeded call to arc4random() in syncache_add()
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Authored by gallatin on Sep 10 2019, 7:47 PM.
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We currently call arc4random() unconditionally to initialize sc_iss, but then when syncookies are enabled, we overwrite it with the return value from from syncookie_generate(). It would seem to make more sense to only call arc4random() when syncookies are not enabled.

Note that on a system under a syn flood attack, arc4random() becomes quite expensive, and the chacha_poly crypto that it calls is one of the more expensive things happening on the system. Removing this unneeded arc4random() call reduces CPU from about 40% to about 35% in my test scenario (Broadwell Xeon, 6Mpps syn flood attack).

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