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tcp: do not mangle skb->cb[] in tcp_make_synack()
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Christoph Paasch sent a patch to address the following issue :

tcp_make_synack() is leaving some TCP private info in skb->cb[],
then send the packet by other means than tcp_transmit_skb()

tcp_transmit_skb() makes sure to clear skb->cb[] to not confuse
IPv4/IPV6 stacks, but we have no such cleanup for SYNACK.

tcp_make_synack() should not use tcp_init_nondata_skb() :

tcp_init_nondata_skb() really should be limited to skbs put in write/rtx
queues (the ones that are only sent via tcp_transmit_skb())

This patch fixes the issue and should even save few cpu cycles ;)

Fixes: 971f10e ("tcp: better TCP_SKB_CB layout to reduce cache line misses")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Christoph Paasch <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Paasch <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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Eric Dumazet authored and davem330 committed Nov 3, 2017
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9 changes: 2 additions & 7 deletions net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
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Expand Up @@ -3180,13 +3180,8 @@ struct sk_buff *tcp_make_synack(const struct sock *sk, struct dst_entry *dst,
th->source = htons(ireq->ir_num);
th->dest = ireq->ir_rmt_port;
skb->mark = ireq->ir_mark;
/* Setting of flags are superfluous here for callers (and ECE is
* not even correctly set)
*/
tcp_init_nondata_skb(skb, tcp_rsk(req)->snt_isn,
TCPHDR_SYN | TCPHDR_ACK);

th->seq = htonl(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq);
skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_PARTIAL;
th->seq = htonl(tcp_rsk(req)->snt_isn);
/* XXX data is queued and acked as is. No buffer/window check */
th->ack_seq = htonl(tcp_rsk(req)->rcv_nxt);

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