[PATCH 3.2 003/106] tcp: avoid fragmenting peculiar skbs in SACK

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Sat Sep 09 2017 - 18:57:27 EST


3.2.93-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit b451e5d24ba6687c6f0e7319c727a709a1846c06 upstream.

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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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
@@ -1303,13 +1303,14 @@ 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);
if (err < 0)
return err;