[PATCH 3.10 03/54] tcp: must unclone packets before mangling them

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-01T22:37:58Z

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

[ Upstream commit c52e2421f7368fd36cbe330d2cf41b10452e39a9 ]

TCP stack should make sure it owns skbs before mangling them.

We had various crashes using bnx2x, and it turned out gso_size
was cleared right before bnx2x driver was populating TC descriptor
of the _previous_ packet send. TCP stack can sometime retransmit
packets that are still in Qdisc.

Of course we could make bnx2x driver more robust (using
ACCESS_ONCE(shinfo->gso_size) for example), but the bug is TCP stack.

We have identified two points where skb_unclone() was needed.

This patch adds a WARN_ON_ONCE() to warn us if we missed another
fix of this kind.

Kudos to Neal for finding the root cause of this bug. Its visible
using small MSS.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@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 | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -976,6 +976,9 @@ static void tcp_queue_skb(struct sock *s
static void tcp_set_skb_tso_segs(const struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
unsigned int mss_now)
{
+ /* Make sure we own this skb before messing gso_size/gso_segs */
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(skb_cloned(skb));
+
if (skb->len <= mss_now || !sk_can_gso(sk) ||
skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_NONE) {
/* Avoid the costly divide in the normal
@@ -1057,9 +1060,7 @@ int tcp_fragment(struct sock *sk, struct
if (nsize < 0)
nsize = 0;

- if (skb_cloned(skb) &&
- skb_is_nonlinear(skb) &&
- pskb_expand_head(skb, 0, 0, GFP_ATOMIC))
+ if (skb_unclone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC))
return -ENOMEM;

/* Get a new skb... force flag on. */
@@ -2334,6 +2335,8 @@ int __tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk
int oldpcount = tcp_skb_pcount(skb);

if (unlikely(oldpcount > 1)) {
+ if (skb_unclone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC))
+ return -ENOMEM;
tcp_init_tso_segs(sk, skb, cur_mss);
tcp_adjust_pcount(sk, skb, oldpcount - tcp_skb_pcount(skb));
}