Calling send on a connected SCTP socket results in kernel panic if spp_pathmtu was configured manually before an association is established and it was not reconfigured to another value once the association is established.
Steps to reproduce: 1. Set up a listening SCTP server socket. 2. Set up an SCTP client socket. 3. Configure client socket using setsockopt SCTP_PEER_ADDR_PARAMS with spp_pathmtu set to a legal value (e.g. 1000) and SPP_PMTUD_DISABLE set in spp_flags. 4. Connect client to server. 5. Send message from client to server. At this point oom-killer is invoked, which will eventually lead to: [ 5.197262] Out of memory and no killable processes... [ 5.198107] Kernel panic - not syncing: System is deadlocked on memory Commit 2f5e3c9df693 ("sctp: introduce sctp_assoc_update_frag_point") introduces sctp_assoc_update_frag_point, but this function is not called in this case, causing frag_point to be zero: void sctp_assoc_set_pmtu(struct sctp_association *asoc, __u32 pmtu) { - if (asoc->pathmtu != pmtu) + if (asoc->pathmtu != pmtu) { asoc->pathmtu = pmtu; + sctp_assoc_update_frag_point(asoc); + } In this scenario, on association establishment, asoc->pathmtu is already 1000 and pmtu will be as well. Before this commit the frag_point was being correctly set in the scenario described. Moving the call outside the if block fixes the issue. I will be providing a separate patch to lksctp-tools with a simple test reproducing this problem ("func_tests: frag_point should never be zero"). I have also taken the liberty to introduce a sanity check in chunk.c to set the frag_point to a non-negative value in order to avoid chunking endlessly (which is the reason for the eventual panic). Fixes: 2f5e3c9df693 ("sctp: introduce sctp_assoc_update_frag_point") Signed-off-by: Jakub Audykowicz <jakub.audykow...@gmail.com> --- include/net/sctp/constants.h | 3 +++ net/sctp/associola.c | 13 +++++++------ net/sctp/chunk.c | 6 ++++++ 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/net/sctp/constants.h b/include/net/sctp/constants.h index 8dadc74c22e7..90316fab6f04 100644 --- a/include/net/sctp/constants.h +++ b/include/net/sctp/constants.h @@ -293,6 +293,9 @@ enum { SCTP_MAX_GABS = 16 }; */ #define SCTP_DEFAULT_MINSEGMENT 512 /* MTU size ... if no mtu disc */ +/* An association's fragmentation point should never be non-positive */ +#define SCTP_FRAG_POINT_MIN 1 + #define SCTP_SECRET_SIZE 32 /* Number of octets in a 256 bits. */ #define SCTP_SIGNATURE_SIZE 20 /* size of a SLA-1 signature */ diff --git a/net/sctp/associola.c b/net/sctp/associola.c index 6a28b96e779e..44d71a1af62e 100644 --- a/net/sctp/associola.c +++ b/net/sctp/associola.c @@ -1431,13 +1431,14 @@ void sctp_assoc_update_frag_point(struct sctp_association *asoc) void sctp_assoc_set_pmtu(struct sctp_association *asoc, __u32 pmtu) { - if (asoc->pathmtu != pmtu) { - asoc->pathmtu = pmtu; - sctp_assoc_update_frag_point(asoc); - } + pr_debug("%s: before asoc:%p, pmtu:%d, frag_point:%d\n", + __func__, asoc, asoc->pathmtu, asoc->frag_point); + + asoc->pathmtu = pmtu; + sctp_assoc_update_frag_point(asoc); - pr_debug("%s: asoc:%p, pmtu:%d, frag_point:%d\n", __func__, asoc, - asoc->pathmtu, asoc->frag_point); + pr_debug("%s: after asoc:%p, pmtu:%d, frag_point:%d\n", + __func__, asoc, asoc->pathmtu, asoc->frag_point); } /* Update the association's pmtu and frag_point by going through all the diff --git a/net/sctp/chunk.c b/net/sctp/chunk.c index ce8087846f05..9f0e64ddbd9c 100644 --- a/net/sctp/chunk.c +++ b/net/sctp/chunk.c @@ -190,6 +190,12 @@ struct sctp_datamsg *sctp_datamsg_from_user(struct sctp_association *asoc, /* This is the biggest possible DATA chunk that can fit into * the packet */ + if (asoc->frag_point < SCTP_FRAG_POINT_MIN) { + pr_warn("%s: asoc:%p->frag_point is less than allowed (%d<%d)", + __func__, asoc, asoc->frag_point, SCTP_FRAG_POINT_MIN); + pr_warn("forcing minimum value to avoid chunking endlessly"); + asoc->frag_point = SCTP_FRAG_POINT_MIN; + } max_data = asoc->frag_point; /* If the the peer requested that we authenticate DATA chunks -- 2.17.1