This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tcp: fix wrong checksum calculation on MTU probing
to the 4.4-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-wrong-checksum-calculation-on-mtu-probing.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 Thu Nov 10 16:42:45 CET 2016
From: Douglas Caetano dos Santos <douglascs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 15:52:04 -0300
Subject: tcp: fix wrong checksum calculation on MTU probing
From: Douglas Caetano dos Santos <douglascs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 2fe664f1fcf7c4da6891f95708a7a56d3c024354 ]
With TCP MTU probing enabled and offload TX checksumming disabled,
tcp_mtu_probe() calculated the wrong checksum when a fragment being copied
into the probe's SKB had an odd length. This was caused by the direct use
of skb_copy_and_csum_bits() to calculate the checksum, as it pads the
fragment being copied, if needed. When this fragment was not the last, a
subsequent call used the previous checksum without considering this
padding.
The effect was a stale connection in one way, as even retransmissions
wouldn't solve the problem, because the checksum was never recalculated for
the full SKB length.
Signed-off-by: Douglas Caetano dos Santos <douglascs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 12 +++++++-----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -1950,12 +1950,14 @@ static int tcp_mtu_probe(struct sock *sk
len = 0;
tcp_for_write_queue_from_safe(skb, next, sk) {
copy = min_t(int, skb->len, probe_size - len);
- if (nskb->ip_summed)
+ if (nskb->ip_summed) {
skb_copy_bits(skb, 0, skb_put(nskb, copy), copy);
- else
- nskb->csum = skb_copy_and_csum_bits(skb, 0,
- skb_put(nskb, copy),
- copy, nskb->csum);
+ } else {
+ __wsum csum = skb_copy_and_csum_bits(skb, 0,
+ skb_put(nskb, copy),
+ copy, 0);
+ nskb->csum = csum_block_add(nskb->csum, csum, len);
+ }
if (skb->len <= copy) {
/* We've eaten all the data from this skb.
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from douglascs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/tcp-fix-wrong-checksum-calculation-on-mtu-probing.patch
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