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tcp: do not mangle skb->cb[] in tcp_make_synack()
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Thu, 2 Nov 2017 19:30:25 +0000 (12:30 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 07:30:03 +0000 (08:30 +0100)
commit475b9905b0c09ee64d45aa4bbcfd89f3546fc9cc
treeb6efe36b123e124b9cfcef66963296b9cd21e282
parentb4b4a3b633cbaaba16b1a21a2e3d3c0fead187da
tcp: do not mangle skb->cb[] in tcp_make_synack()

[ Upstream commit 3b11775033dc87c3d161996c54507b15ba26414a ]

Christoph Paasch sent a patch to address the following issue :

tcp_make_synack() is leaving some TCP private info in skb->cb[],
then send the packet by other means than tcp_transmit_skb()

tcp_transmit_skb() makes sure to clear skb->cb[] to not confuse
IPv4/IPV6 stacks, but we have no such cleanup for SYNACK.

tcp_make_synack() should not use tcp_init_nondata_skb() :

tcp_init_nondata_skb() really should be limited to skbs put in write/rtx
queues (the ones that are only sent via tcp_transmit_skb())

This patch fixes the issue and should even save few cpu cycles ;)

Fixes: 971f10eca186 ("tcp: better TCP_SKB_CB layout to reduce cache line misses")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@apple.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@apple.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c