From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net 1/2] tcp: fix corruption of urgent data on multi-segment retransmit
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:11:26 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260826141145.67823-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> (raw)
On the normal xmit path, while in urgent mode we refuse to build a
multi-segment TSO packet, so every segment gets its own urg_ptr:
/* tcp_write_xmit() */
limit = mss_now;
if (tso_segs > 1 && !tcp_urg_mode(tp))
limit = tcp_mss_split_point(...);
The retransmit path has no such guard. __tcp_retransmit_skb() builds a
segs > 1 skb and hands it to the GSO layer, which only advances th->seq
per segment and copies urg_ptr verbatim:
/* __tcp_retransmit_skb() */
len = cur_mss * segs; /* segs > 1, no urg_mode check */
...
/* tcp_gso_segment(): bumps seq only, urg_ptr is copied */
urg_ptr is an offset from the segment's own seq, so a copied value points
at a different place on each segment. The receiver rebuilds the absolute
urgent seq as seg.seq + urg_ptr, so it walks a moving urgent point instead
of the one OOB byte:
seg1 seq 1 urg_ptr 5001 -> urgent @ 5001 (ok)
seg2 seq 1001 urg_ptr 5001 -> urgent @ 6001 (wrong, +MSS)
seg3 seq 2001 urg_ptr 5001 -> urgent @ 7001 (wrong, +2*MSS)
The real OOB byte is never pointed at, so the receiver stops splicing it
out and delivers it as normal in-band data, corrupting the stream.
Guard the retransmit length like the xmit path: keep segs = 1 while in
urgent mode.
Fixes: 10d3be569243 ("tcp-tso: do not split TSO packets at retransmit time")
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
---
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index fcaa04e65189..86e255794027 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -3603,7 +3603,7 @@ int __tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, int segs)
avail_wnd = cur_mss;
}
- len = cur_mss * segs;
+ len = cur_mss * (tcp_urg_mode(tp) ? 1 : segs);
if (len > avail_wnd) {
len = rounddown(avail_wnd, cur_mss);
if (!len)
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-26 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-26 14:11 Jiayuan Chen [this message]
2026-08-26 14:11 ` [PATCH net 2/2] selftests/net: packetdrill: add tcp_urg_ptr_retransmit Jiayuan Chen
2026-08-26 15:52 ` Eric Dumazet
2026-08-26 15:20 ` [PATCH net 1/2] tcp: fix corruption of urgent data on multi-segment retransmit Eric Dumazet
2026-08-27 20:00 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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