From 50bceae9bd3569d56744882f3012734d48a1d413 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Graf Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:57:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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 and the team at LLNL for helping out with the investigation and testing. Reported-by: Jim Foraker Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c index b44cf81d8178..509912a5ff98 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c @@ -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) : -- 2.20.1