Ben Hutchings wrote: > 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. [...] > [ Upstream commit 4fa48bf3c75069d636fc8830743c929a062e80dc ] > > commit f07d960df3 (tcp: avoid frag allocation for small frames) > breaked assumption in tcp stack that skb is either linear (skb->data_len > == 0), or fully fragged (skb->data_len == skb->len) > > tcp_trim_head() made this assumption, we must fix it.
Is this needed in the context of 3.2.y (which does not include f07d960df3)? Curious, Jonathan > Thanks to Vijay for providing a very detailed explanation. > > Reported-by: Vijay Subramanian <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> > --- > net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 13 ++++++++----- > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c > index 097e0c7..7413437 100644 > --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c > +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c > @@ -1093,6 +1093,13 @@ static void __pskb_trim_head(struct sk_buff *skb, int > len) > { > int i, k, eat; > > + eat = min_t(int, len, skb_headlen(skb)); > + if (eat) { > + __skb_pull(skb, eat); > + len -= eat; > + if (!len) > + return; > + } > eat = len; > k = 0; > for (i = 0; i < skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags; i++) { > @@ -1124,11 +1131,7 @@ int tcp_trim_head(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff > *skb, u32 len) > if (skb_cloned(skb) && pskb_expand_head(skb, 0, 0, GFP_ATOMIC)) > return -ENOMEM; > > - /* If len == headlen, we avoid __skb_pull to preserve alignment. */ > - if (unlikely(len < skb_headlen(skb))) > - __skb_pull(skb, len); > - else > - __pskb_trim_head(skb, len - skb_headlen(skb)); > + __pskb_trim_head(skb, len); > > TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq += len; > skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_PARTIAL; > -- > 1.7.10 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
