This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled skbuff: only inherit relevant tx_flags 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: skbuff-only-inherit-relevant-tx_flags.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 Apr 10 10:31:53 CEST 2018 From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 11:35:03 -0400 Subject: skbuff: only inherit relevant tx_flags From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit fff88030b3ff930ca7a3d74acfee0472f33887ea ] When inheriting tx_flags from one skbuff to another, always apply a mask to avoid overwriting unrelated other bits in the field. The two SKBTX_SHARED_FRAG cases clears all other bits. In practice, tx_flags are zero at this point now. But this is fragile. Timestamp flags are set, for instance, if in tcp_gso_segment, after this clear in skb_segment. The SKBTX_ANY_TSTAMP mask in __skb_tstamp_tx ensures that new skbs do not accidentally inherit flags such as SKBTX_SHARED_FRAG. Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/core/skbuff.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/net/core/skbuff.c +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c @@ -2551,7 +2551,8 @@ void skb_split(struct sk_buff *skb, stru { int pos = skb_headlen(skb); - skb_shinfo(skb1)->tx_flags = skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags & SKBTX_SHARED_FRAG; + skb_shinfo(skb1)->tx_flags |= skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags & + SKBTX_SHARED_FRAG; if (len < pos) /* Split line is inside header. */ skb_split_inside_header(skb, skb1, len, pos); else /* Second chunk has no header, nothing to copy. */ @@ -3115,8 +3116,8 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_segment(struct sk_bu skb_copy_from_linear_data_offset(head_skb, offset, skb_put(nskb, hsize), hsize); - skb_shinfo(nskb)->tx_flags = skb_shinfo(head_skb)->tx_flags & - SKBTX_SHARED_FRAG; + skb_shinfo(nskb)->tx_flags |= skb_shinfo(head_skb)->tx_flags & + SKBTX_SHARED_FRAG; while (pos < offset + len) { if (i >= nfrags) { @@ -3734,7 +3735,8 @@ void __skb_tstamp_tx(struct sk_buff *ori return; if (tsonly) { - skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags = skb_shinfo(orig_skb)->tx_flags; + skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags |= skb_shinfo(orig_skb)->tx_flags & + SKBTX_ANY_TSTAMP; skb_shinfo(skb)->tskey = skb_shinfo(orig_skb)->tskey; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from willemb@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/skbuff-only-inherit-relevant-tx_flags.patch