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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2017-10-31 09:08:20 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-11-01 15:18:34 +0300
commit2b7cda9c35d3b940eb9ce74b30bbd5eb30db493d (patch)
tree5e6be10ad3727cadc7da624a4c10b7660f5bf74c /net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
parente669b86945478b3d90d2d87e3793a6eed06d332f (diff)
downloadlinux-2b7cda9c35d3b940eb9ce74b30bbd5eb30db493d.tar.xz
tcp: fix tcp_mtu_probe() vs highest_sack
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/tcp_output.c')
-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 ae60dd3faed0..823003eef3a2 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -2062,6 +2062,7 @@ 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) {
@@ -2665,7 +2666,7 @@ static bool tcp_collapse_retrans(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
else if (!skb_shift(skb, next_skb, next_skb_size))
return false;
}
- tcp_highest_sack_combine(sk, next_skb, skb);
+ tcp_highest_sack_replace(sk, next_skb, skb);
tcp_unlink_write_queue(next_skb, sk);