From: bestswngs@gmail.com
To: edumazet@google.com, ncardwell@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kuniyu@google.com, davem@davemloft.net, horms@kernel.org,
xmei5@asu.edu, co+71b6509cb791e531@bugs.sh,
Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] tcp: ignore locked zero CWND route metric
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2026 23:32:25 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261003153224.2683219-2-bestswngs@gmail.com> (raw)
From: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
A locked RTAX_CWND route metric of zero is copied into the TCP metrics
cache and then into snd_cwnd_clamp. This sets the initial cwnd to zero.
With a cached SSTHRESH metric, a later Reno ACK can reach a divide by
zero in tcp_cong_avoid_ai(). A user with CAP_NET_ADMIN in a user-created
network namespace can trigger the oops.
Ignore a zero cached CWND metric when applying the locked clamp, leaving
the socket's initialized nonzero clamp in place.
Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
RIP: 0010:tcp_cong_avoid_ai (net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c:482)
Call Trace:
tcp_ack (net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:4440)
tcp_rcv_established (net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:6678)
tcp_v4_do_rcv (net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:1854)
tcp_v4_rcv (net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:2248)
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
Fixes: 51c5d0c4b169 ("tcp: Maintain dynamic metrics in local cache.")
Reported-by: <co+71b6509cb791e531@bugs.sh>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
---
net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c
index dc0c081fc1f3..ff41804ad086 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c
@@ -484,8 +484,11 @@ void tcp_init_metrics(struct sock *sk)
goto reset;
}
- if (tcp_metric_locked(tm, TCP_METRIC_CWND))
- tp->snd_cwnd_clamp = tcp_metric_get(tm, TCP_METRIC_CWND);
+ if (tcp_metric_locked(tm, TCP_METRIC_CWND)) {
+ val = tcp_metric_get(tm, TCP_METRIC_CWND);
+ if (val)
+ tp->snd_cwnd_clamp = val;
+ }
val = READ_ONCE(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_no_ssthresh_metrics_save) ?
0 : tcp_metric_get(tm, TCP_METRIC_SSTHRESH);
--
2.55.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-10-03 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-03 15:32 bestswngs [this message]
2026-10-03 16:10 ` [PATCH net] tcp: ignore locked zero CWND route metric Eric Dumazet
2026-10-03 17:09 ` Eric Dumazet
2026-10-04 16:51 ` Weiming Shi
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