This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tcp: eliminate negative reordering in tcp_clean_rtx_queue
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-eliminate-negative-reordering-in-tcp_clean_rtx_queue.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 Fri Jun 2 09:29:55 JST 2017
From: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 17:05:47 -0400
Subject: tcp: eliminate negative reordering in tcp_clean_rtx_queue
From: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit bafbb9c73241760023d8981191ddd30bb1c6dbac ]
tcp_ack() can call tcp_fragment() which may dededuct the
value tp->fackets_out when MSS changes. When prior_fackets
is larger than tp->fackets_out, tcp_clean_rtx_queue() can
invoke tcp_update_reordering() with negative values. This
results in absurd tp->reodering values higher than
sysctl_tcp_max_reordering.
Note that tcp_update_reordering indeeds sets tp->reordering
to min(sysctl_tcp_max_reordering, metric), but because
the comparison is signed, a negative metric always wins.
Fixes: c7caf8d3ed7a ("[TCP]: Fix reord detection due to snd_una covered holes")
Reported-by: Rebecca Isaacs <risaacs@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@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 | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -3220,7 +3220,7 @@ static int tcp_clean_rtx_queue(struct so
int delta;
/* Non-retransmitted hole got filled? That's reordering */
- if (reord < prior_fackets)
+ if (reord < prior_fackets && reord <= tp->fackets_out)
tcp_update_reordering(sk, tp->fackets_out - reord, 0);
delta = tcp_is_fack(tp) ? pkts_acked :
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from soheil@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/tcp-eliminate-negative-reordering-in-tcp_clean_rtx_queue.patch
queue-4.4/tcp-avoid-fragmenting-peculiar-skbs-in-sack.patch