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TCP: fix a bug that triggers large number of TCP RST by mistake
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This patch fixes a bug that causes TCP RST packets to be generated
on otherwise correctly behaved applications, e.g., no unread data
on close,..., etc. To trigger the bug, at least two conditions must
be met:

1. The FIN flag is set on the last data packet, i.e., it's not on a
separate, FIN only packet.
2. The size of the last data chunk on the receive side matches
exactly with the size of buffer posted by the receiver, and the
receiver closes the socket without any further read attempt.

This bug was first noticed on our netperf based testbed for our IW10
proposal to IETF where a large number of RST packets were observed.
netperf's read side code meets the condition 2 above 100%.

Before the fix, tcp_data_queue() will queue the last skb that meets
condition 1 to sk_receive_queue even though it has fully copied out
(skb_copy_datagram_iovec()) the data. Then if condition 2 is also met,
tcp_recvmsg() often returns all the copied out data successfully
without actually consuming the skb, due to a check
"if ((chunk = len - tp->ucopy.len) != 0) {"
and
"len -= chunk;"
after tcp_prequeue_process() that causes "len" to become 0 and an
early exit from the big while loop.

I don't see any reason not to free the skb whose data have been fully
consumed in tcp_data_queue(), regardless of the FIN flag.  We won't
get there if MSG_PEEK is on. Am I missing some arcane cases related
to urgent data?

Signed-off-by: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
(cherry picked from commit 724ff00296c2e27b7a9d2cc9cd2a9233726c840e)
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hkchu authored and Peter Donka committed Aug 19, 2012
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Expand Up @@ -4326,7 +4326,7 @@ static void tcp_data_queue(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
if (!skb_copy_datagram_iovec(skb, 0, tp->ucopy.iov, chunk)) {
tp->ucopy.len -= chunk;
tp->copied_seq += chunk;
eaten = (chunk == skb->len && !th->fin);
eaten = (chunk == skb->len);
tcp_rcv_space_adjust(sk);
}
local_bh_disable();
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