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ppp: avoid loop in xmit recursion detection code
We already detect situations where a PPP channel sends packets back to its upper PPP device. While this is enough to avoid deadlocking on xmit locks, this doesn't prevent packets from looping between the channel and the unit. The problem is that ppp_start_xmit() enqueues packets in ppp->file.xq before checking for xmit recursion. Therefore, __ppp_xmit_process() might dequeue a packet from ppp->file.xq and send it on the channel which, in turn, loops it back on the unit. Then ppp_start_xmit() queues the packet back to ppp->file.xq and __ppp_xmit_process() picks it up and sends it again through the channel. Therefore, the packet will loop between __ppp_xmit_process() and ppp_start_xmit() until some other part of the xmit path drops it. For L2TP, we rapidly fill the skb's headroom and pppol2tp_xmit() drops the packet after a few iterations. But PPTP reallocates the headroom if necessary, letting the loop run and exhaust the machine resources (as reported in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199109 ). Fix this by letting __ppp_xmit_process() enqueue the skb to ppp->file.xq, so that we can check for recursion before adding it to the queue. Now ppp_xmit_process() can drop the packet when recursion is detected. __ppp_channel_push() is a bit special. It calls __ppp_xmit_process() without having any actual packet to send. This is used by ppp_output_wakeup() to re-enable transmission on the parent unit (for implementations like ppp_async.c, where the .start_xmit() function might not consume the skb, leaving it in ppp->xmit_pending and disabling transmission). Therefore, __ppp_xmit_process() needs to handle the case where skb is NULL, dequeuing as many packets as possible from ppp->file.xq. Reported-by:xu heng <xuheng333@zoho.com> Fixes: 55454a56 ("ppp: avoid dealock on recursive xmit") Signed-off-by: