Re: [PATCH] tcp: Do not reset the icsk_ca_initialized in tcp_init_transfer.

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On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 01:20:19PM -0400, Neal Cardwell wrote:
> )
> 
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 1:15 PM Phi Nguyen <phind.uet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 6/29/2021 12:24 AM, Neal Cardwell wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Can you also please provide a summary of the event sequence that
> > > triggers the bug? Based on your Reported-by tag, I guess this is based
> > > on the syzbot reproducer:
> > >
> > >   https://groups.google.com/g/syzkaller-bugs/c/VbHoSsBz0hk/m/cOxOoTgPCAAJ 
> > >
> > > but perhaps you can give a summary of the event sequence that causes
> > > the bug? Is it that the call:
> > >
> > > setsockopt$inet_tcp_TCP_CONGESTION(r0, 0x6, 0xd,
> > > &(0x7f0000000000)='cdg\x00', 0x4)
> > >
> > > initializes the CC and happens before the connection is established,
> > > and then when the connection is established, the line that sets:
> > >    icsk->icsk_ca_initialized = 0;
> > > is incorrect, causing the CC to be initialized again without first
> > > calling the cleanup code that deallocates the CDG-allocated memory?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > neal
> > >
> >
> > Hi Neal,
> >
> > The gdb stack trace that lead to init_transfer_input() is as bellow, the
> > current sock state is TCP_SYN_RECV.
> 
> Thanks. That makes sense as a snapshot of time for
> tcp_init_transfer(), but I think what would be more useful would be a
> description of the sequence of events, including when the CC was
> initialized previous to that point (as noted above, was it that the
> setsockopt(TCP_CONGESTION) completed before that point?).
+1.  It needs to first explain when was the very first CC initialized.



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