This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tcp: do not mangle skb->cb[] in tcp_make_synack() 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-do-not-mangle-skb-cb-in-tcp_make_synack.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 Tue Nov 21 15:28:16 CET 2017 From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 12:30:25 -0700 Subject: tcp: do not mangle skb->cb[] in tcp_make_synack() From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 3b11775033dc87c3d161996c54507b15ba26414a ] Christoph Paasch sent a patch to address the following issue : tcp_make_synack() is leaving some TCP private info in skb->cb[], then send the packet by other means than tcp_transmit_skb() tcp_transmit_skb() makes sure to clear skb->cb[] to not confuse IPv4/IPV6 stacks, but we have no such cleanup for SYNACK. tcp_make_synack() should not use tcp_init_nondata_skb() : tcp_init_nondata_skb() really should be limited to skbs put in write/rtx queues (the ones that are only sent via tcp_transmit_skb()) This patch fixes the issue and should even save few cpu cycles ;) Fixes: 971f10eca186 ("tcp: better TCP_SKB_CB layout to reduce cache line misses") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 9 ++------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c @@ -3018,13 +3018,8 @@ struct sk_buff *tcp_make_synack(const st tcp_ecn_make_synack(req, th); th->source = htons(ireq->ir_num); th->dest = ireq->ir_rmt_port; - /* Setting of flags are superfluous here for callers (and ECE is - * not even correctly set) - */ - tcp_init_nondata_skb(skb, tcp_rsk(req)->snt_isn, - TCPHDR_SYN | TCPHDR_ACK); - - th->seq = htonl(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq); + skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_PARTIAL; + th->seq = htonl(tcp_rsk(req)->snt_isn); /* XXX data is queued and acked as is. No buffer/window check */ th->ack_seq = htonl(tcp_rsk(req)->rcv_nxt); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/tcp-do-not-mangle-skb-cb-in-tcp_make_synack.patch