[PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 154/156] tcp: fix tcp fin memory accounting

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Apr 7 22:51:31 UTC 2015


3.13.11-ckt19 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Josh Hunt <johunt at akamai.com>

[ Upstream commit d22e1537181188e5dc8cbc51451832625035bdc2 ]

tcp_send_fin() does not account for the memory it allocates properly, so
sk_forward_alloc can be negative in cases where we've sent a FIN:

ss example output (ss -amn | grep -B1 f4294):
tcp    FIN-WAIT-1 0      1            192.168.0.1:45520         192.0.2.1:8080
	skmem:(r0,rb87380,t0,tb87380,f4294966016,w1280,o0,bl0)
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index 3bff62d..9d6a840 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -2591,15 +2591,11 @@ void tcp_send_fin(struct sock *sk)
 	} else {
 		/* Socket is locked, keep trying until memory is available. */
 		for (;;) {
-			skb = alloc_skb_fclone(MAX_TCP_HEADER,
-					       sk->sk_allocation);
+			skb = sk_stream_alloc_skb(sk, 0, sk->sk_allocation);
 			if (skb)
 				break;
 			yield();
 		}
-
-		/* Reserve space for headers and prepare control bits. */
-		skb_reserve(skb, MAX_TCP_HEADER);
 		/* FIN eats a sequence byte, write_seq advanced by tcp_queue_skb(). */
 		tcp_init_nondata_skb(skb, tp->write_seq,
 				     TCPHDR_ACK | TCPHDR_FIN);
-- 
1.9.1





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