linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 08/51] tcp: fix NULL ref in tail loss probe

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Message-Id: <20181214115714.053486486@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Fri, 14 Dec 2018 13:00:10 +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, Rafael Tinoco <rafael.tinoco@...aro.org>,
        Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 08/51] tcp: fix NULL ref in tail loss probe

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

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

From: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>

[ Upstream commit b2b7af861122a0c0f6260155c29a1b2e594cd5b5 ]

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@...aro.org>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c |   12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -2346,14 +2346,18 @@ void tcp_send_loss_probe(struct sock *sk
 		skb = tcp_write_queue_tail(sk);
 	}
 
+	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;