Patch "tcp: avoid fragmenting peculiar skbs in SACK" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    tcp: avoid fragmenting peculiar skbs in SACK

to the 4.9-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-avoid-fragmenting-peculiar-skbs-in-sack.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Wed May 31 09:13:34 JST 2017
From: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 17:01:27 -0700
Subject: tcp: avoid fragmenting peculiar skbs in SACK

From: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>


[ Upstream commit b451e5d24ba6687c6f0e7319c727a709a1846c06 ]

This patch fixes a bug in splitting an SKB during SACK
processing. Specifically if an skb contains multiple
packets and is only partially sacked in the higher sequences,
tcp_match_sack_to_skb() splits the skb and marks the second fragment
as SACKed.

The current code further attempts rounding up the first fragment
to MSS boundaries. But it misses a boundary condition when the
rounded-up fragment size (pkt_len) is exactly skb size.  Spliting
such an skb is pointless and causses a kernel warning and aborts
the SACK processing. This patch universally checks such over-split
before calling tcp_fragment to prevent these unnecessary warnings.

Fixes: adb92db857ee ("tcp: Make SACK code to split only at mss boundaries")
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@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 |    9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -1177,13 +1177,14 @@ static int tcp_match_skb_to_sack(struct
 		 */
 		if (pkt_len > mss) {
 			unsigned int new_len = (pkt_len / mss) * mss;
-			if (!in_sack && new_len < pkt_len) {
+			if (!in_sack && new_len < pkt_len)
 				new_len += mss;
-				if (new_len >= skb->len)
-					return 0;
-			}
 			pkt_len = new_len;
 		}
+
+		if (pkt_len >= skb->len && !in_sack)
+			return 0;
+
 		err = tcp_fragment(sk, skb, pkt_len, mss, GFP_ATOMIC);
 		if (err < 0)
 			return err;


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

queue-4.9/tcp-eliminate-negative-reordering-in-tcp_clean_rtx_queue.patch
queue-4.9/tcp-avoid-fragmenting-peculiar-skbs-in-sack.patch