[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "tcp: Fix crash in TCP Fast Open" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    tcp: Fix crash in TCP Fast Open

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt10.

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

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 53411a80e3449952336582f8689c458b63f85455 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 19:00:32 +0100
Subject: tcp: Fix crash in TCP Fast Open

Commit 355a901e6cf1 ("tcp: make connect() mem charging friendly")
changed tcp_send_syn_data() to perform an open-coded copy of the 'syn'
skb rather than using skb_copy_expand().

The open-coded copy does not cover the skb_shared_info::gso_segs
field, so in the new skb it is left set to 0.  When this commit was
backported into stable branches between 3.10.y and 3.16.7-ckty
inclusive, it triggered the BUG() in tcp_transmit_skb().

Since Linux 3.18 the GSO segment count is kept in the
tcp_skb_cb::tcp_gso_segs field and tcp_send_syn_data() does copy the
tcp_skb_cb structure to the new skb, so mainline and newer stable
branches are not affected.

Set skb_shared_info::gso_segs to the correct value of 1.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index d5457e40f5be..1ea0a07ab0b5 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -2992,6 +2992,7 @@ static int tcp_send_syn_data(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *syn)
 		goto fallback;
 	syn_data->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_PARTIAL;
 	memcpy(syn_data->cb, syn->cb, sizeof(syn->cb));
+	skb_shinfo(syn_data)->gso_segs = 1;
 	if (unlikely(memcpy_fromiovecend(skb_put(syn_data, space),
 					 fo->data->msg_iov, 0, space))) {
 		kfree_skb(syn_data);