From c52e2421f7368fd36cbe330d2cf41b10452e39a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 11:54:30 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] tcp: must unclone packets before mangling them TCP stack should make sure it owns skbs before mangling them. We had various crashes using bnx2x, and it turned out gso_size was cleared right before bnx2x driver was populating TC descriptor of the _previous_ packet send. TCP stack can sometime retransmit packets that are still in Qdisc. Of course we could make bnx2x driver more robust (using ACCESS_ONCE(shinfo->gso_size) for example), but the bug is TCP stack. We have identified two points where skb_unclone() was needed. This patch adds a WARN_ON_ONCE() to warn us if we missed another fix of this kind. Kudos to Neal for finding the root cause of this bug. Its visible using small MSS. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Cc: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-format-patch failed