netdev - [PATCH net 2/2] tcp: tcp_v4_err() should be more careful

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Date:   Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:36:21 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
        Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
        soukjin bae <soukjin.bae@...sung.com>
Subject: [PATCH net 2/2] tcp: tcp_v4_err() should be more careful

ICMP handlers are not very often stressed, we should
make them more resilient to bugs that might surface in
the future.

If there is no packet in retransmit queue, we should
avoid a NULL deref.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Reported-by: soukjin bae <soukjin.bae@...sung.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
index efc6fef692ffdca4dcdd3f4b87a837656dd66c8c..ec3cea9d68288244d8e03b655d06f91640c36ee7 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
@@ -536,12 +536,15 @@ int tcp_v4_err(struct sk_buff *icmp_skb, u32 info)
 		if (sock_owned_by_user(sk))
 			break;
 
+		skb = tcp_rtx_queue_head(sk);
+		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!skb))
+			break;
+
 		icsk->icsk_backoff--;
 		icsk->icsk_rto = tp->srtt_us ? __tcp_set_rto(tp) :
 					       TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT;
 		icsk->icsk_rto = inet_csk_rto_backoff(icsk, TCP_RTO_MAX);
 
-		skb = tcp_rtx_queue_head(sk);
 
 		tcp_mstamp_refresh(tp);
 		delta_us = (u32)(tp->tcp_mstamp - tcp_skb_timestamp_us(skb));
-- 
2.21.0.rc0.258.g878e2cd30e-goog