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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2017-10-30 23:08:20 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-11-18 11:22:21 +0100
commite12c42c55287f39bfbaa2ab7e9cf04c88879768f (patch)
treefd9b99e03af63a8f9e8ec3f461fafc782c778a08 /net
parentcb5880e677a1310be578b6cf4d1093d2bfa2be1a (diff)
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tcp: fix tcp_mtu_probe() vs highest_sack
[ Upstream commit 2b7cda9c35d3b940eb9ce74b30bbd5eb30db493d ] Based on SNMP values provided by Roman, Yuchung made the observation that some crashes in tcp_sacktag_walk() might be caused by MTU probing. Looking at tcp_mtu_probe(), I found that when a new skb was placed in front of the write queue, we were not updating tcp highest sack. If one skb is freed because all its content was copied to the new skb (for MTU probing), then tp->highest_sack could point to a now freed skb. Bad things would then happen, including infinite loops. This patch renames tcp_highest_sack_combine() and uses it from tcp_mtu_probe() to fix the bug. Note that I also removed one test against tp->sacked_out, since we want to replace tp->highest_sack regardless of whatever condition, since keeping a stale pointer to freed skb is a recipe for disaster. Fixes: a47e5a988a57 ("[TCP]: Convert highest_sack to sk_buff to allow direct access") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> Reported-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Reported-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp_output.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index 85920707c4d3..566b43afe378 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -1996,6 +1996,7 @@ static int tcp_mtu_probe(struct sock *sk)
nskb->ip_summed = skb->ip_summed;
tcp_insert_write_queue_before(nskb, skb, sk);
+ tcp_highest_sack_replace(sk, skb, nskb);
len = 0;
tcp_for_write_queue_from_safe(skb, next, sk) {
@@ -2535,7 +2536,7 @@ static void tcp_collapse_retrans(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
BUG_ON(tcp_skb_pcount(skb) != 1 || tcp_skb_pcount(next_skb) != 1);
- tcp_highest_sack_combine(sk, next_skb, skb);
+ tcp_highest_sack_replace(sk, next_skb, skb);
tcp_unlink_write_queue(next_skb, sk);