This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled udp: fix behavior of wrong checksums to the 3.14-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: udp-fix-behavior-of-wrong-checksums.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 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 Jun 13 09:49:06 PDT 2015 From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 09:16:53 -0700 Subject: udp: fix behavior of wrong checksums From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit beb39db59d14990e401e235faf66a6b9b31240b0 ] We have two problems in UDP stack related to bogus checksums : 1) We return -EAGAIN to application even if receive queue is not empty. This breaks applications using edge trigger epoll() 2) Under UDP flood, we can loop forever without yielding to other processes, potentially hanging the host, especially on non SMP. This patch is an attempt to make things better. We might in the future add extra support for rt applications wanting to better control time spent doing a recv() in a hostile environment. For example we could validate checksums before queuing packets in socket receive queue. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/udp.c | 6 ++---- net/ipv6/udp.c | 6 ++---- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv4/udp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/udp.c @@ -1317,10 +1317,8 @@ csum_copy_err: } unlock_sock_fast(sk, slow); - if (noblock) - return -EAGAIN; - - /* starting over for a new packet */ + /* starting over for a new packet, but check if we need to yield */ + cond_resched(); msg->msg_flags &= ~MSG_TRUNC; goto try_again; } --- a/net/ipv6/udp.c +++ b/net/ipv6/udp.c @@ -515,10 +515,8 @@ csum_copy_err: } unlock_sock_fast(sk, slow); - if (noblock) - return -EAGAIN; - - /* starting over for a new packet */ + /* starting over for a new packet, but check if we need to yield */ + cond_resched(); msg->msg_flags &= ~MSG_TRUNC; goto try_again; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/net_sched-invoke-attach-after-setting-dev-qdisc.patch queue-3.14/udp-fix-behavior-of-wrong-checksums.patch queue-3.14/tcp-ipv6-fix-flow-label-setting-in-time_wait-state.patch queue-3.14/ipv4-avoid-crashing-in-ip_error.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