[PATCH] tcp: fix retransmit of partially acked frames

Eric Dumazet
2012-04-18T20:14:23Z

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

Alexander Beregalov reported skb_over_panic errors and provided stack
trace.

I occurs commit a21d45726aca (tcp: avoid order-1 allocations on wifi and
tx path) added a regression, when a retransmit is done after a partial
ACK.

tcp_retransmit_skb() tries to aggregate several frames if the first one
has enough available room to hold the following ones payload. This is
controlled by /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_retrans_collapse tunable (default :
enabled)

Problem is we must make sure _pskb_trim_head() doesnt fool
skb_availroom() when pulling some bytes from skb (this pull is done when
receiver ACK part of the frame).

Reported-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Cc: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
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 376b2cf..7ac6423 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -1096,6 +1096,7 @@ static void __pskb_trim_head(struct sk_buff *skb, int len)
eat = min_t(int, len, skb_headlen(skb));
if (eat) {
__skb_pull(skb, eat);
+ skb->avail_size -= eat;
len -= eat;
if (!len)
return;