netdev - Re: [PATCH net] sctp: fix the issue that the cookie-ack with auth can't get processed

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Message-Id: <20180502.111655.1192203550420460498.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 02 May 2018 11:16:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     lucien.xin@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
        marcelo.leitner@...il.com, nhorman@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] sctp: fix the issue that the cookie-ack with auth
 can't get processed

From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
Date: Wed,  2 May 2018 13:45:12 +0800

> When auth is enabled for cookie-ack chunk, in sctp_inq_pop, sctp
> processes auth chunk first, then continues to the next chunk in
> this packet if chunk_end + chunk_hdr size < skb_tail_pointer().
> Otherwise, it will go to the next packet or discard this chunk.
> 
> However, it missed the fact that cookie-ack chunk's size is equal
> to chunk_hdr size, which couldn't match that check, and thus this
> chunk would not get processed.
> 
> This patch fixes it by changing the check to chunk_end + chunk_hdr
> size <= skb_tail_pointer().
> 
> Fixes: 26b87c788100 ("net: sctp: fix remote memory pressure from excessive queueing")
> Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.