linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 041/118] sctp: do not retransmit upon FragNeeded if PMTU discovery is disabled

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Message-Id: <20180115123417.975367661@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 15 Jan 2018 13:34:28 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 041/118] sctp: do not retransmit upon FragNeeded if PMTU discovery is disabled

4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>


[ Upstream commit cc35c3d1edf7a8373a1a5daa80a912dec96a9cd5 ]

Currently, if PMTU discovery is disabled on a given transport, but the
configured value is higher than the actual PMTU, it is likely that we
will get some icmp Frag Needed. The issue is, if PMTU discovery is
disabled, we won't update the information and will issue a
retransmission immediately, which may very well trigger another ICMP,
and another retransmission, leading to a loop.

The fix is to simply not trigger immediate retransmissions if PMTU
discovery is disabled on the given transport.

Changes from v2:
- updated stale comment, noticed by Xin Long

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 net/sctp/input.c |   24 ++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/net/sctp/input.c
+++ b/net/sctp/input.c
@@ -399,20 +399,20 @@ void sctp_icmp_frag_needed(struct sock *
 		return;
 	}
 
-	if (t->param_flags & SPP_PMTUD_ENABLE) {
-		/* Update transports view of the MTU */
-		sctp_transport_update_pmtu(t, pmtu);
+	if (!(t->param_flags & SPP_PMTUD_ENABLE))
+		/* We can't allow retransmitting in such case, as the
+		 * retransmission would be sized just as before, and thus we
+		 * would get another icmp, and retransmit again.
+		 */
+		return;
 
-		/* Update association pmtu. */
-		sctp_assoc_sync_pmtu(asoc);
-	}
+	/* Update transports view of the MTU */
+	sctp_transport_update_pmtu(t, pmtu);
+
+	/* Update association pmtu. */
+	sctp_assoc_sync_pmtu(asoc);
 
-	/* Retransmit with the new pmtu setting.
-	 * Normally, if PMTU discovery is disabled, an ICMP Fragmentation
-	 * Needed will never be sent, but if a message was sent before
-	 * PMTU discovery was disabled that was larger than the PMTU, it
-	 * would not be fragmented, so it must be re-transmitted fragmented.
-	 */
+	/* Retransmit with the new pmtu setting. */
 	sctp_retransmit(&asoc->outqueue, t, SCTP_RTXR_PMTUD);
 }