Patch "tcp: fix zero cwnd in tcp_cwnd_reduction" has been added to the 4.3-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    tcp: fix zero cwnd in tcp_cwnd_reduction

to the 4.3-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     tcp-fix-zero-cwnd-in-tcp_cwnd_reduction.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.3 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Tue Jan 26 21:35:03 PST 2016
From: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 12:42:38 -0800
Subject: tcp: fix zero cwnd in tcp_cwnd_reduction

From: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>

[ Upstream commit 8b8a321ff72c785ed5e8b4cf6eda20b35d427390 ]

Patch 3759824da87b ("tcp: PRR uses CRB mode by default and SS mode
conditionally") introduced a bug that cwnd may become 0 when both
inflight and sndcnt are 0 (cwnd = inflight + sndcnt). This may lead
to a div-by-zero if the connection starts another cwnd reduction
phase by setting tp->prior_cwnd to the current cwnd (0) in
tcp_init_cwnd_reduction().

To prevent this we skip PRR operation when nothing is acked or
sacked. Then cwnd must be positive in all cases as long as ssthresh
is positive:

1) The proportional reduction mode
   inflight > ssthresh > 0

2) The reduction bound mode
  a) inflight == ssthresh > 0

  b) inflight < ssthresh
     sndcnt > 0 since newly_acked_sacked > 0 and inflight < ssthresh

Therefore in all cases inflight and sndcnt can not both be 0.
We check invalid tp->prior_cwnd to avoid potential div0 bugs.

In reality this bug is triggered only with a sequence of less common
events.  For example, the connection is terminating an ECN-triggered
cwnd reduction with an inflight 0, then it receives reordered/old
ACKs or DSACKs from prior transmission (which acks nothing). Or the
connection is in fast recovery stage that marks everything lost,
but fails to retransmit due to local issues, then receives data
packets from other end which acks nothing.

Fixes: 3759824da87b ("tcp: PRR uses CRB mode by default and SS mode conditionally")
Reported-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -2525,6 +2525,9 @@ static void tcp_cwnd_reduction(struct so
 	int newly_acked_sacked = prior_unsacked -
 				 (tp->packets_out - tp->sacked_out);
 
+	if (newly_acked_sacked <= 0 || WARN_ON_ONCE(!tp->prior_cwnd))
+		return;
+
 	tp->prr_delivered += newly_acked_sacked;
 	if (delta < 0) {
 		u64 dividend = (u64)tp->snd_ssthresh * tp->prr_delivered +


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ycheng@google.com are

queue-4.3/tcp-fix-zero-cwnd-in-tcp_cwnd_reduction.patch
queue-4.3/tcp_yeah-don-t-set-ssthresh-below-2.patch