[PATCH 4/4] tcp: be more careful in tcp_fragment()

Tyler Hicks tyhicks at canonical.com
Thu Aug 29 00:49:48 UTC 2019


From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>

[ Upstream commit b617158dc096709d8600c53b6052144d12b89fab ]

Some applications set tiny SO_SNDBUF values and expect
TCP to just work. Recent patches to address CVE-2019-11478
broke them in case of losses, since retransmits might
be prevented.

We should allow these flows to make progress.

This patch allows the first and last skb in retransmit queue
to be split even if memory limits are hit.

It also adds the some room due to the fact that tcp_sendmsg()
and tcp_sendpage() might overshoot sk_wmem_queued by about one full
TSO skb (64KB size). Note this allowance was already present
in stable backports for kernels < 4.15

Note for < 4.15 backports :
 tcp_rtx_queue_tail() will probably look like :

static inline struct sk_buff *tcp_rtx_queue_tail(const struct sock *sk)
{
	struct sk_buff *skb = tcp_send_head(sk);

	return skb ? tcp_write_queue_prev(sk, skb) : tcp_write_queue_tail(sk);
}

Fixes: f070ef2ac667 ("tcp: tcp_fragment() should apply sane memory limits")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Reported-by: Andrew Prout <aprout at ll.mit.edu>
Tested-by: Andrew Prout <aprout at ll.mit.edu>
Tested-by: Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon at gmail.com>
Tested-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek at suse.cz>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell at google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng at google.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Paasch <cpaasch at apple.com>
Cc: Jonathan Looney <jtl at netflix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>

CVE-2019-11478

(cherry picked from commit 5917ca48053447dac0e13c51ed7d4e2471a1cbc9 linux-stable)
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks at canonical.com>
---
 include/net/tcp.h     | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 11 ++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index 77438a8406ec..0410fd29d569 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -1526,6 +1526,23 @@ static inline void tcp_check_send_head(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb_unli
 		tcp_sk(sk)->highest_sack = NULL;
 }
 
+static inline struct sk_buff *tcp_rtx_queue_head(const struct sock *sk)
+{
+	struct sk_buff *skb = tcp_write_queue_head(sk);
+
+	if (skb == tcp_send_head(sk))
+		skb = NULL;
+
+	return skb;
+}
+
+static inline struct sk_buff *tcp_rtx_queue_tail(const struct sock *sk)
+{
+	struct sk_buff *skb = tcp_send_head(sk);
+
+	return skb ? tcp_write_queue_prev(sk, skb) : tcp_write_queue_tail(sk);
+}
+
 static inline void __tcp_add_write_queue_tail(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	__skb_queue_tail(&sk->sk_write_queue, skb);
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index 1b2a6ab5da9d..0d53506dac22 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -1153,6 +1153,7 @@ int tcp_fragment(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, u32 len,
 	struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 	struct sk_buff *buff;
 	int nsize, old_factor;
+	long limit;
 	int nlen;
 	u8 flags;
 
@@ -1163,7 +1164,15 @@ int tcp_fragment(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, u32 len,
 	if (nsize < 0)
 		nsize = 0;
 
-	if (unlikely((sk->sk_wmem_queued >> 1) > sk->sk_sndbuf + 0x20000)) {
+	/* tcp_sendmsg() can overshoot sk_wmem_queued by one full size skb.
+	 * We need some allowance to not penalize applications setting small
+	 * SO_SNDBUF values.
+	 * Also allow first and last skb in retransmit queue to be split.
+	 */
+	limit = sk->sk_sndbuf + 2 * SKB_TRUESIZE(GSO_MAX_SIZE);
+	if (unlikely((sk->sk_wmem_queued >> 1) > limit &&
+		     skb != tcp_rtx_queue_head(sk) &&
+		     skb != tcp_rtx_queue_tail(sk))) {
 		NET_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPWQUEUETOOBIG);
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
-- 
2.17.1




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