linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.19 303/321] tcp: exit if nothing to retransmit on RTO timeout

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Message-Id: <20191203223442.911850160@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue,  3 Dec 2019 23:36:09 +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, Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
        Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 4.19 303/321] tcp: exit if nothing to retransmit on RTO timeout

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

commit 88f8598d0a302a08380eadefd09b9f5cb1c4c428 upstream.

Previously TCP only warns if its RTO timer fires and the
retransmission queue is empty, but it'll cause null pointer
reference later on. It's better to avoid such catastrophic failure
and simply exit with a warning.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c |    6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
@@ -443,10 +443,8 @@ void tcp_retransmit_timer(struct sock *s
 		 */
 		return;
 	}
-	if (!tp->packets_out)
-		goto out;
-
-	WARN_ON(tcp_rtx_queue_empty(sk));
+	if (!tp->packets_out || WARN_ON_ONCE(tcp_rtx_queue_empty(sk)))
+		return;

 	tp->tlp_high_seq = 0;