netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: tcp_fragment() should not assume rtx skbs

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Date:   Thu, 2 Nov 2017 21:16:44 -0400
From:   Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
        Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Priyaranjan Jha <priyarjha@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: tcp_fragment() should not assume rtx skbs

On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 9:10 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>
> While stress testing MTU probing, we had crashes in list_del() that we root-caused
> to the fact that tcp_fragment() is unconditionally inserting the freshly allocated
> skb into tsorted_sent_queue list.
>
> But this list is supposed to contain skbs that were sent.
> This was mostly harmless until MTU probing was enabled.
>
> Fortunately we can use the tcp_queue enum added later (but in same linux version)
> for rtx-rb-tree to fix the bug.
>
> Fixes: e2080072ed2d ("tcp: new list for sent but unacked skbs for RACK recovery")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>

Thanks, Eric!

neal