[PATCH 3.8 13/91] net-tcp: fix panic in tcp_fastopen_cache_set()

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Thu Jan 2 17:03:48 UTC 2014


3.8.13.15 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>

[ Upstream commit dccf76ca6b626c0c4a4e09bb221adee3270ab0ef ]

We had some reports of crashes using TCP fastopen, and Dave Jones
gave a nice stack trace pointing to the error.

Issue is that tcp_get_metrics() should not be called with a NULL dst

Fixes: 1fe4c481ba637 ("net-tcp: Fast Open client - cookie cache")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng at google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng at google.com>
Tested-by: Dave Jones <davej at fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c
index f696d7c..f190419 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c
@@ -662,10 +662,13 @@ void tcp_fastopen_cache_get(struct sock *sk, u16 *mss,
 void tcp_fastopen_cache_set(struct sock *sk, u16 mss,
 			    struct tcp_fastopen_cookie *cookie, bool syn_lost)
 {
+	struct dst_entry *dst = __sk_dst_get(sk);
 	struct tcp_metrics_block *tm;
 
+	if (!dst)
+		return;
 	rcu_read_lock();
-	tm = tcp_get_metrics(sk, __sk_dst_get(sk), true);
+	tm = tcp_get_metrics(sk, dst, true);
 	if (tm) {
 		struct tcp_fastopen_metrics *tfom = &tm->tcpm_fastopen;
 
-- 
1.8.3.2





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