This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tcp: fix "old stuff" D-SACK causing SACK to be treated as D-SACK to the 4.19-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-old-stuff-d-sack-causing-sack-to-be-treated-as-d-sack.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Sat 11 Jan 2020 09:14:34 AM CET From: Pengcheng Yang <yangpc@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 17:54:41 +0800 Subject: tcp: fix "old stuff" D-SACK causing SACK to be treated as D-SACK From: Pengcheng Yang <yangpc@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit c9655008e7845bcfdaac10a1ed8554ec167aea88 ] When we receive a D-SACK, where the sequence number satisfies: undo_marker <= start_seq < end_seq <= prior_snd_una we consider this is a valid D-SACK and tcp_is_sackblock_valid() returns true, then this D-SACK is discarded as "old stuff", but the variable first_sack_index is not marked as negative in tcp_sacktag_write_queue(). If this D-SACK also carries a SACK that needs to be processed (for example, the previous SACK segment was lost), this SACK will be treated as a D-SACK in the following processing of tcp_sacktag_write_queue(), which will eventually lead to incorrect updates of undo_retrans and reordering. Fixes: fd6dad616d4f ("[TCP]: Earlier SACK block verification & simplify access to them") Signed-off-by: Pengcheng Yang <yangpc@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c @@ -1716,8 +1716,11 @@ tcp_sacktag_write_queue(struct sock *sk, } /* Ignore very old stuff early */ - if (!after(sp[used_sacks].end_seq, prior_snd_una)) + if (!after(sp[used_sacks].end_seq, prior_snd_una)) { + if (i == 0) + first_sack_index = -1; continue; + } used_sacks++; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yangpc@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.19/tcp-fix-old-stuff-d-sack-causing-sack-to-be-treated-as-d-sack.patch