[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "gro: Only verify TCP checksums for candidates" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    gro: Only verify TCP checksums for candidates

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From be12cbb8d79f575057ab477780d5801b9ffce63e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:31:29 +0800
Subject: gro: Only verify TCP checksums for candidates

commit cc5c00bbb44c5d68b883aa5cb9d01514a2525d94 upstream.

In some cases we may receive IP packets that are longer than
their stated lengths.  Such packets are never merged in GRO.
However, we may end up computing their checksums incorrectly
and end up allowing packets with a bogus checksum enter our
stack with the checksum status set as verified.

Since such packets are rare and not performance-critical, this
patch simply skips the checksum verification for them.

Reported-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck at intel.com>

Thanks,
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c   | 5 +++++
 net/ipv6/tcpv6_offload.c | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c
index 533c58a..44c8678 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c
@@ -274,6 +274,10 @@ static struct sk_buff **tcp4_gro_receive(struct sk_buff **head, struct sk_buff *
 	__wsum wsum;
 	__sum16 sum;

+	/* Don't bother verifying checksum if we're going to flush anyway. */
+	if (NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->flush)
+		goto skip_csum;
+
 	switch (skb->ip_summed) {
 	case CHECKSUM_COMPLETE:
 		if (!tcp_v4_check(skb_gro_len(skb), iph->saddr, iph->daddr,
@@ -299,6 +303,7 @@ flush:
 		break;
 	}

+skip_csum:
 	return tcp_gro_receive(head, skb);
 }

diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcpv6_offload.c b/net/ipv6/tcpv6_offload.c
index 2ec6bf6..78081d8 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/tcpv6_offload.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/tcpv6_offload.c
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ static struct sk_buff **tcp6_gro_receive(struct sk_buff **head,
 	__wsum wsum;
 	__sum16 sum;

+	/* Don't bother verifying checksum if we're going to flush anyway. */
+	if (NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->flush)
+		goto skip_csum;
+
 	switch (skb->ip_summed) {
 	case CHECKSUM_COMPLETE:
 		if (!tcp_v6_check(skb_gro_len(skb), &iph->saddr, &iph->daddr,
@@ -65,6 +69,7 @@ flush:
 		break;
 	}

+skip_csum:
 	return tcp_gro_receive(head, skb);
 }

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