netdev - Re: [4.9.13] use after free in ipv4

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Date:   Mon, 06 Mar 2017 08:20:03 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Daniel J Blueman <daniel@...ra.org>
Cc:     Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [4.9.13] use after free in ipv4_mtu

On Mon, 2017-03-06 at 05:45 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-03-06 at 14:33 +0800, Daniel J Blueman wrote:

> > I do change the network queueing discipline and related at runtime [1]
> > which may be triggering this, though I did think I saw the KASAN
> > report only after resuming from suspend. rf(un)kill and other tweaking
> > may have been involved too.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> >   Dan
> > 
> > [1] /etc/sysctl.d/90-tcp.conf
> > 
> > net.core.default_qdisc = fq_codel
> > net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control = bbr
> > net.ipv4.tcp_slow_start_after_idle = 0
> > net.ipv4.tcp_ecn = 1

BTW, fq_codel is not suitable for BBR.

Only fq contains the needed pacing for BBR.