net: Allow driver to limit number of GSO segments per skb

[ Upstream commit 30b678d844af3305cda5953467005cebb5d7b687 ]

A peer (or local user) may cause TCP to use a nominal MSS of as little
as 88 (actual MSS of 76 with timestamps).  Given that we have a
sufficiently prodigious local sender and the peer ACKs quickly enough,
it is nevertheless possible to grow the window for such a connection
to the point that we will try to send just under 64K at once.  This
results in a single skb that expands to 861 segments.

In some drivers with TSO support, such an skb will require hundreds of
DMA descriptors; a substantial fraction of a TX ring or even more than
a full ring.  The TX queue selected for the skb may stall and trigger
the TX watchdog repeatedly (since the problem skb will be retried
after the TX reset).  This particularly affects sfc, for which the
issue is designated as CVE-2012-3412.

Therefore:
1. Add the field net_device::gso_max_segs holding the device-specific
   limit.
2. In netif_skb_features(), if the number of segments is too high then
   mask out GSO features to force fall back to software GSO.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index d94cb14315196f7a35e64651bdd9465aba1c477e..2ac58b68d5d46109c90f3e299e77d2dad67a3dad 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1301,6 +1301,8 @@ struct net_device {
        /* for setting kernel sock attribute on TCP connection setup */
 #define GSO_MAX_SIZE           65536
        unsigned int            gso_max_size;
+#define GSO_MAX_SEGS           65535
+       u16                     gso_max_segs;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DCB
        /* Data Center Bridging netlink ops */

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index a000840850b20b7b2d4b18461c19d4f03b4c913e..d653a356b55b38a696e5e9afe6938f23dd3be54d 100644 (file)
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2119,6 +2119,9 @@ netdev_features_t netif_skb_features(struct sk_buff *skb)
        __be16 protocol = skb->protocol;
        netdev_features_t features = skb->dev->features;
 
+       if (skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_segs > skb->dev->gso_max_segs)
+               features &= ~NETIF_F_GSO_MASK;
+
        if (protocol == htons(ETH_P_8021Q)) {
                struct vlan_ethhdr *veh = (struct vlan_ethhdr *)skb->data;
                protocol = veh->h_vlan_encapsulated_proto;
@@ -5911,6 +5914,7 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mqs(int sizeof_priv, const char *name,
        dev_net_set(dev, &init_net);
 
        dev->gso_max_size = GSO_MAX_SIZE;
+       dev->gso_max_segs = GSO_MAX_SEGS;
 
        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->napi_list);
        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->unreg_list);