Commit 50bceae9 authored Apr 11, 2013 by Thomas Graf Committed by David S. Miller Apr 11, 2013

tcp: Reallocate headroom if it would overflow csum_start



If a TCP retransmission gets partially ACKed and collapsed multiple
times it is possible for the headroom to grow beyond 64K which will
overflow the 16bit skb->csum_start which is based on the start of
the headroom. It has been observed rarely in the wild with IPoIB due
to the 64K MTU.

Verify if the acking and collapsing resulted in a headroom exceeding
what csum_start can cover and reallocate the headroom if so.

A big thank you to Jim Foraker <foraker1@llnl.gov> and the team at
LLNL for helping out with the investigation and testing.

Reported-by: Jim Foraker <foraker1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 7078b984

net/ipv4/tcp_output.c

+6 −2

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		@@ -2388,8 +2388,12 @@ int __tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock sk, struct sk_buff skb)
		*/
		TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->when = tcp_time_stamp;

		/* make sure skb->data is aligned on arches that require it */
		if (unlikely(NET_IP_ALIGN && ((unsigned long)skb->data & 3))) {
		/* make sure skb->data is aligned on arches that require it
		* and check if ack-trimming & collapsing extended the headroom
		* beyond what csum_start can cover.
		*/
		if (unlikely((NET_IP_ALIGN && ((unsigned long)skb->data & 3)) \|\|
		skb_headroom(skb) >= 0xFFFF)) {
		struct sk_buff *nskb = __pskb_copy(skb, MAX_TCP_HEADER,
		GFP_ATOMIC);
		return nskb ? tcp_transmit_skb(sk, nskb, 0, GFP_ATOMIC) :

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