This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tcp: Do not apply TSO segment limit to non-TSO packets to the 3.10-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-apply-tso-segment-limit-to-non-tso-packets.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 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 Jan 17 18:13:47 PST 2015 From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 00:39:23 +1100 Subject: tcp: Do not apply TSO segment limit to non-TSO packets From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 843925f33fcc293d80acf2c5c8a78adf3344d49b ] Thomas Jarosch reported IPsec TCP stalls when a PMTU event occurs. In fact the problem was completely unrelated to IPsec. The bug is also reproducible if you just disable TSO/GSO. The problem is that when the MSS goes down, existing queued packet on the TX queue that have not been transmitted yet all look like TSO packets and get treated as such. This then triggers a bug where tcp_mss_split_point tells us to generate a zero-sized packet on the TX queue. Once that happens we're screwed because the zero-sized packet can never be removed by ACKs. Fixes: 1485348d242 ("tcp: Apply device TSO segment limit earlier") Reported-by: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cheers, Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c @@ -1862,7 +1862,7 @@ static bool tcp_write_xmit(struct sock * if (unlikely(!tcp_snd_wnd_test(tp, skb, mss_now))) break; - if (tso_segs == 1) { + if (tso_segs == 1 || !sk->sk_gso_max_segs) { if (unlikely(!tcp_nagle_test(tp, skb, mss_now, (tcp_skb_is_last(sk, skb) ? nonagle : TCP_NAGLE_PUSH)))) @@ -1899,7 +1899,7 @@ static bool tcp_write_xmit(struct sock * } limit = mss_now; - if (tso_segs > 1 && !tcp_urg_mode(tp)) + if (tso_segs > 1 && sk->sk_gso_max_segs && !tcp_urg_mode(tp)) limit = tcp_mss_split_point(sk, skb, mss_now, min_t(unsigned int, cwnd_quota, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/tcp-do-not-apply-tso-segment-limit-to-non-tso-packets.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html