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authorYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>2018-12-05 14:38:38 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-12-05 16:34:40 -0800
commitb2b7af861122a0c0f6260155c29a1b2e594cd5b5 (patch)
treee50108978bd22380b6d831725c8998bdd2a797d7 /net
parent41727549de3e7281feb174d568c6e46823db8684 (diff)
downloadlinux-b2b7af861122a0c0f6260155c29a1b2e594cd5b5.tar.bz2
tcp: fix NULL ref in tail loss probe
TCP loss probe timer may fire when the retranmission queue is empty but has a non-zero tp->packets_out counter. tcp_send_loss_probe will call tcp_rearm_rto which triggers NULL pointer reference by fetching the retranmission queue head in its sub-routines. Add a more detailed warning to help catch the root cause of the inflight accounting inconsistency. Reported-by: Rafael Tinoco <rafael.tinoco@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp_output.c11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index 318690234758..5aa600900695 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -2497,15 +2497,18 @@ void tcp_send_loss_probe(struct sock *sk)
goto rearm_timer;
}
skb = skb_rb_last(&sk->tcp_rtx_queue);
+ if (unlikely(!skb)) {
+ WARN_ONCE(tp->packets_out,
+ "invalid inflight: %u state %u cwnd %u mss %d\n",
+ tp->packets_out, sk->sk_state, tp->snd_cwnd, mss);
+ inet_csk(sk)->icsk_pending = 0;
+ return;
+ }
/* At most one outstanding TLP retransmission. */
if (tp->tlp_high_seq)
goto rearm_timer;
- /* Retransmit last segment. */
- if (WARN_ON(!skb))
- goto rearm_timer;
-
if (skb_still_in_host_queue(sk, skb))
goto rearm_timer;