summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2019-12-12 12:55:29 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-01-04 19:13:42 +0100
commitd3f384f57953a39bbc472487c66fa012ff0b81ba (patch)
treedb90df46490ec5b03f614b32af78db70fdbd5202
parent28f0d54dbed848d231c9af37737ddd00968caaac (diff)
downloadlinux-stable-d3f384f57953a39bbc472487c66fa012ff0b81ba.tar.gz
linux-stable-d3f384f57953a39bbc472487c66fa012ff0b81ba.tar.bz2
linux-stable-d3f384f57953a39bbc472487c66fa012ff0b81ba.zip
tcp: do not send empty skb from tcp_write_xmit()
[ Upstream commit 1f85e6267caca44b30c54711652b0726fadbb131 ] Backport of commit fdfc5c8594c2 ("tcp: remove empty skb from write queue in error cases") in linux-4.14 stable triggered various bugs. One of them has been fixed in commit ba2ddb43f270 ("tcp: Don't dequeue SYN/FIN-segments from write-queue"), but we still have crashes in some occasions. Root-cause is that when tcp_sendmsg() has allocated a fresh skb and could not append a fragment before being blocked in sk_stream_wait_memory(), tcp_write_xmit() might be called and decide to send this fresh and empty skb. Sending an empty packet is not only silly, it might have caused many issues we had in the past with tp->packets_out being out of sync. Fixes: c65f7f00c587 ("[TCP]: Simplify SKB data portion allocation with NETIF_F_SG.") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@apple.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com> Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp_output.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index e3ce1f56f845..1cc20edf4762 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -2376,6 +2376,14 @@ static bool tcp_write_xmit(struct sock *sk, unsigned int mss_now, int nonagle,
if (tcp_small_queue_check(sk, skb, 0))
break;
+ /* Argh, we hit an empty skb(), presumably a thread
+ * is sleeping in sendmsg()/sk_stream_wait_memory().
+ * We do not want to send a pure-ack packet and have
+ * a strange looking rtx queue with empty packet(s).
+ */
+ if (TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq == TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq)
+ break;
+
if (unlikely(tcp_transmit_skb(sk, skb, 1, gfp)))
break;