This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    tcp: must unclone packets before mangling them

to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     tcp-must-unclone-packets-before-mangling-them.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 35536f38006d0995e3c14246c7b56f01e8f9f047 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 11:54:30 -0700
Subject: tcp: must unclone packets before mangling them

From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit c52e2421f7368fd36cbe330d2cf41b10452e39a9 ]

TCP stack should make sure it owns skbs before mangling them.

We had various crashes using bnx2x, and it turned out gso_size
was cleared right before bnx2x driver was populating TC descriptor
of the _previous_ packet send. TCP stack can sometime retransmit
packets that are still in Qdisc.

Of course we could make bnx2x driver more robust (using
ACCESS_ONCE(shinfo->gso_size) for example), but the bug is TCP stack.

We have identified two points where skb_unclone() was needed.

This patch adds a WARN_ON_ONCE() to warn us if we missed another
fix of this kind.

Kudos to Neal for finding the root cause of this bug. Its visible
using small MSS.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <[email protected]>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c |    9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -976,6 +976,9 @@ static void tcp_queue_skb(struct sock *s
 static void tcp_set_skb_tso_segs(const struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
                                 unsigned int mss_now)
 {
+       /* Make sure we own this skb before messing gso_size/gso_segs */
+       WARN_ON_ONCE(skb_cloned(skb));
+
        if (skb->len <= mss_now || !sk_can_gso(sk) ||
            skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_NONE) {
                /* Avoid the costly divide in the normal
@@ -1057,9 +1060,7 @@ int tcp_fragment(struct sock *sk, struct
        if (nsize < 0)
                nsize = 0;
 
-       if (skb_cloned(skb) &&
-           skb_is_nonlinear(skb) &&
-           pskb_expand_head(skb, 0, 0, GFP_ATOMIC))
+       if (skb_unclone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC))
                return -ENOMEM;
 
        /* Get a new skb... force flag on. */
@@ -2334,6 +2335,8 @@ int __tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk
                int oldpcount = tcp_skb_pcount(skb);
 
                if (unlikely(oldpcount > 1)) {
+                       if (skb_unclone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC))
+                               return -ENOMEM;
                        tcp_init_tso_segs(sk, skb, cur_mss);
                        tcp_adjust_pcount(sk, skb, oldpcount - 
tcp_skb_pcount(skb));
                }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.10/tcp-tsq-can-use-a-dynamic-limit.patch
queue-3.10/ipv4-fix-ineffective-source-address-selection.patch
queue-3.10/net-unix-inherit-sock_pass-cred-sec-flags-from-socket-to-fix-race.patch
queue-3.10/net-do-not-call-sock_put-on-timewait-sockets.patch
queue-3.10/tcp-must-unclone-packets-before-mangling-them.patch
queue-3.10/l2tp-must-disable-bh-before-calling-l2tp_xmit_skb.patch
queue-3.10/tcp-do-not-forget-fin-in-tcp_shifted_skb.patch
queue-3.10/bnx2x-record-rx-queue-for-lro-packets.patch
queue-3.10/tcp-tso-packets-automatic-sizing.patch
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