From: Octavian Purdila <tavip@google.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
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>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>,
Wei Wang <weiwan@google.com>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Octavian Purdila <tavip@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH net 0/2] tcp: clamp return value of tcp_wmem_schedule() to non-negative
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:37:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261015073736.2944215-1-tavip@google.com> (raw)
This series fixes a bug in tcp_wmem_schedule() where a negative
sk->sk_forward_alloc under TCP memory pressure causes tcp_wmem_schedule()
to return a negative copy length when sk->sk_wmem_queued already reaches
or exceeds sysctl_tcp_wmem[0].
sk->sk_forward_alloc can transiently become negative when tcp_collapse()
re-packs partially read or high payload-to-truesize SKBs in the receive
queue and charges newly allocated SKBs via sk_mem_charge() before
freeing the original SKBs. When a subsequent send hits memory pressure
in sk_wmem_schedule() with sk->sk_wmem_queued >= sysctl_tcp_wmem[0],
tcp_wmem_schedule() returns min(copy, sk->sk_forward_alloc) < 0.
Callers such as tcp_sendmsg_locked() then pass that negative copy length
to skb_copy_to_page_nocache() -> copy_from_iter_full() ->
check_copy_size(), triggering WARN_ON_ONCE(bytes > INT_MAX) and
returning -EFAULT instead of waiting for memory or returning -EAGAIN.
Patch 1 clamps the return value of tcp_wmem_schedule() to [0, copy] so
a negative sk->sk_forward_alloc is treated as 0 available bytes.
Patch 2 adds a packetdrill selftest that reproduces the negative
sk->sk_forward_alloc condition via tcp_collapse() under memory pressure
and verifies that a non-blocking write fails with EAGAIN rather than
EFAULT.
Octavian Purdila (2):
tcp: clamp return value of tcp_wmem_schedule() to non-negative
selftests: net: packetdrill: add test for negative sk_forward_alloc in
tcp_wmem_schedule()
net/ipv4/tcp.c | 2 +-
.../testing/selftests/net/packetdrill/config | 1 +
.../tcp_wmem_schedule_negative_fwd_alloc.pkt | 116 ++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 118 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/net/packetdrill/tcp_wmem_schedule_negative_fwd_alloc.pkt
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2.56.0.176.g3575e65682-goog
next reply other threads:[~2026-10-15 7:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-15 7:37 Octavian Purdila [this message]
2026-10-15 7:37 ` [PATCH net 1/2] tcp: clamp return value of tcp_wmem_schedule() to non-negative Octavian Purdila
2026-10-15 7:37 ` [PATCH net 2/2] selftests: net: packetdrill: add test for negative sk_forward_alloc in tcp_wmem_schedule() Octavian Purdila
2026-10-15 7:43 ` [PATCH net 0/2] tcp: clamp return value of tcp_wmem_schedule() to non-negative netdev-bot+sinfo
2026-10-15 7:56 ` Octavian Purdila
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