[PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 21/90] tcp: Fix crash in TCP Fast Open

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Tue May 05 2015 - 16:57:48 EST


3.13.11-ckt20 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Commit 355a901e6cf1 ("tcp: make connect() mem charging friendly")
changed tcp_send_syn_data() to perform an open-coded copy of the 'syn'
skb rather than using skb_copy_expand().

The open-coded copy does not cover the skb_shared_info::gso_segs
field, so in the new skb it is left set to 0. When this commit was
backported into stable branches between 3.10.y and 3.16.7-ckty
inclusive, it triggered the BUG() in tcp_transmit_skb().

Since Linux 3.18 the GSO segment count is kept in the
tcp_skb_cb::tcp_gso_segs field and tcp_send_syn_data() does copy the
tcp_skb_cb structure to the new skb, so mainline and newer stable
branches are not affected.

Set skb_shared_info::gso_segs to the correct value of 1.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ kamal: pre-3.18-stable only; no upstream commit ]
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index b692b0b..918f2db 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -2907,6 +2907,7 @@ static int tcp_send_syn_data(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *syn)
goto fallback;
syn_data->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_PARTIAL;
memcpy(syn_data->cb, syn->cb, sizeof(syn->cb));
+ skb_shinfo(syn_data)->gso_segs = 1;
if (unlikely(memcpy_fromiovecend(skb_put(syn_data, space),
fo->data->msg_iov, 0, space))) {
kfree_skb(syn_data);
--
1.9.1

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