netdev - Re: [PATCH][net-next] net: tcp: remove BUG_ON from tcp_v4

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Date:   Fri, 9 Nov 2018 09:12:29 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Li RongQing <lirongqing@...du.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][net-next] net: tcp: remove BUG_ON from tcp_v4_err



On 11/09/2018 01:04 AM, Li RongQing wrote:
> if skb is NULL pointer, and the following access of skb's
> skb_mstamp_ns will trigger panic, which is same as BUG_ON
> 
> Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@...du.com>
> ---
>  net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
> index a336787d75e5..5424a4077c27 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
> @@ -542,7 +542,6 @@ int tcp_v4_err(struct sk_buff *icmp_skb, u32 info)
>  		icsk->icsk_rto = inet_csk_rto_backoff(icsk, TCP_RTO_MAX);
>  
>  		skb = tcp_rtx_queue_head(sk);
> -		BUG_ON(!skb);
>  
>  		tcp_mstamp_refresh(tp);
>  		delta_us = (u32)(tp->tcp_mstamp - tcp_skb_timestamp_us(skb));
> 

SGTM, thanks.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>