Patch "tcp: consider recv buf for the initial window scale" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    tcp: consider recv buf for the initial window scale

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     tcp-consider-recv-buf-for-the-initial-window-scale.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Sun Aug 14 20:39:28 CEST 2016
From: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 09:34:02 -0400
Subject: tcp: consider recv buf for the initial window scale
Status: RO
Content-Length: 1613
Lines: 40

From: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>

[ Upstream commit f626300a3e776ccc9671b0dd94698fb3aa315966 ]

tcp_select_initial_window() intends to advertise a window
scaling for the maximum possible window size. To do so,
it considers the maximum of net.ipv4.tcp_rmem[2] and
net.core.rmem_max as the only possible upper-bounds.
However, users with CAP_NET_ADMIN can use SO_RCVBUFFORCE
to set the socket's receive buffer size to values
larger than net.ipv4.tcp_rmem[2] and net.core.rmem_max.
Thus, SO_RCVBUFFORCE is effectively ignored by
tcp_select_initial_window().

To fix this, consider the maximum of net.ipv4.tcp_rmem[2],
net.core.rmem_max and socket's initial buffer space.

Fixes: b0573dea1fb3 ("[NET]: Introduce SO_{SND,RCV}BUFFORCE socket options")
Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Suggested-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -242,7 +242,8 @@ void tcp_select_initial_window(int __spa
 		/* Set window scaling on max possible window
 		 * See RFC1323 for an explanation of the limit to 14
 		 */
-		space = max_t(u32, sysctl_tcp_rmem[2], sysctl_rmem_max);
+		space = max_t(u32, space, sysctl_tcp_rmem[2]);
+		space = max_t(u32, space, sysctl_rmem_max);
 		space = min_t(u32, space, *window_clamp);
 		while (space > 65535 && (*rcv_wscale) < 14) {
 			space >>= 1;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from soheil@google.com are

queue-3.14/tcp-consider-recv-buf-for-the-initial-window-scale.patch