From 7f8742aecd30470b4ae8f9bb6bd0b9b6abb93c9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Hutchings Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:57:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/linux/netdevice.h | 2 ++ net/core/dev.c | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index c6d6d486d314..c0372151ce22 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -1329,6 +1329,8 @@ 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 8235b81a7db3..065b3425df11 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -2050,6 +2050,9 @@ u32 netif_skb_features(struct sk_buff *skb) __be16 protocol = skb->protocol; u32 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; @@ -5870,6 +5873,7 @@ 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->ethtool_ntuple_list.list); dev->ethtool_ntuple_list.count = 0; -- 2.39.5