subject:"\[PATCH 4.14 04\/33\] tcp\: be more careful in tcp_fragment\(\)"

Re: [PATCH 4.14 04/33] tcp: be more careful in tcp_fragment()

2019-08-20 Thread Matthieu Baerts

Hi Eric, On 08/08/2019 21:05, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > commit b617158dc096709d8600c53b6052144d12b89fab upstream. > > Some applications set tiny SO_SNDBUF values and expect > TCP to just work. Recent patches to address CVE-2019-11478 > broke them in case of losses, since retransmits might > be

[PATCH 4.14 04/33] tcp: be more careful in tcp_fragment()

2019-08-08 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman

commit b617158dc096709d8600c53b6052144d12b89fab upstream. Some applications set tiny SO_SNDBUF values and expect TCP to just work. Recent patches to address CVE-2019-11478 broke them in case of losses, since retransmits might be prevented. We should allow these flows to make progress. This patch