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net: Convert skb->csum_(start|offset) integrity BUG_ON() to WARN_ON() & drop

Message ID 1360858943.6884.47.camel@edumazet-glaptop
State RFC, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Eric Dumazet Feb. 14, 2013, 4:22 p.m. UTC 
On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 10:18 +0000, Thomas Graf wrote:
> Maybe it's my general dislike of BUG_ON() in the processing
> path, especially if the bug condition can be influenced remotely.
> It looks absolutely doable to trigger the previously mentioned
> partial acking & collapsing on purpose by a malicious receiver
> even with an MTU of 1500. I believe we should avoid total DoS
> in future similar situations that we don't think of yet.

It seems not possible to avoid bugs, being a BUG_ON() or a out of bound
memory access or whatever. We must fix them eventually.

In this case, it seems we must limit payload to 

65535 - MAX_TCP_HEADER 

It would make tcp_xmit_size_goal() a bit shorter.



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diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 2c7e596..2f6c8e5 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -793,10 +793,7 @@  static unsigned int tcp_xmit_size_goal(struct sock *sk, u32 mss_now,
 	xmit_size_goal = mss_now;
 
 	if (large_allowed && sk_can_gso(sk)) {
-		xmit_size_goal = ((sk->sk_gso_max_size - 1) -
-				  inet_csk(sk)->icsk_af_ops->net_header_len -
-				  inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ext_hdr_len -
-				  tp->tcp_header_len);
+		xmit_size_goal = sk->sk_gso_max_size - 1 - MAX_TCP_HEADER;
 
 		/* TSQ : try to have two TSO segments in flight */
 		xmit_size_goal = min_t(u32, xmit_size_goal,