From: Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 08:02:54 -0800
> From: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
>
> Neal reported crashes with this stack trace :
>
> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8c57231b>] tcp_v4_send_ack+0x41/0x20f
> ...
> CR2: 0000000000000018 CR3: 000000044005c000 CR4: 00000000001427e0
> ...
> [<ffffffff8c57258e>] tcp_v4_reqsk_send_ack+0xa5/0xb4
> [<ffffffff8c1a7caa>] tcp_check_req+0x2ea/0x3e0
> [<ffffffff8c19e420>] tcp_rcv_state_process+0x850/0x2500
> [<ffffffff8c1a6d21>] tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x141/0x330
> [<ffffffff8c56cdb2>] sk_backlog_rcv+0x21/0x30
> [<ffffffff8c098bbd>] tcp_recvmsg+0x75d/0xf90
> [<ffffffff8c0a8700>] inet_recvmsg+0x80/0xa0
> [<ffffffff8c17623e>] sock_aio_read+0xee/0x110
> [<ffffffff8c066fcf>] do_sync_read+0x6f/0xa0
> [<ffffffff8c0673a1>] SyS_read+0x1e1/0x290
> [<ffffffff8c5ca262>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>
> The problem here is the skb we provide to tcp_v4_send_ack() had to
> be parked in the backlog of a new TCP fastopen child because this child
> was owned by the user at the time an out of window packet arrived.
>
> Before queuing a packet, TCP has to set skb->dev to NULL as the device
> could disappear before packet is removed from the queue.
>
> Fix this issue by using the net pointer provided by the socket (being a
> timewait or a request socket).
>
> IPv6 is immune to the bug : tcp_v6_send_response() already gets the net
> pointer from the socket if provided.
>
> Fixes: 168a8f58059a ("tcp: TCP Fast Open Server - main code path")
> Reported-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardw...@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
