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List:       linux-stable-commits
Subject:    Patch "tcp: remove improper preemption check in tcp_xmit_probe_skb()" has been added to the 4.2-stab
From:       <gregkh () linuxfoundation ! org>
Date:       2015-11-17 22:42:08
Message-ID: 144780012818102 () kroah ! com
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    tcp: remove improper preemption check in tcp_xmit_probe_skb()

to the 4.2-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     tcp-remove-improper-preemption-check-in-tcp_xmit_probe_skb.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


From foo@baz Tue Nov 17 14:34:38 PST 2015
From: Renato Westphal <renatowestphal@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 18:51:34 -0200
Subject: tcp: remove improper preemption check in tcp_xmit_probe_skb()

From: Renato Westphal <renatowestphal@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit e2e8009ff72ad2a795b67785f3238af152146368 ]

Commit e520af48c7e5a introduced the following bug when setting the
TCP_REPAIR sockoption:

[ 2860.657036] BUG: using __this_cpu_add() in preemptible [00000000] code: daemon/12164
[ 2860.657045] caller is __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x13/0x20
[ 2860.657049] CPU: 1 PID: 12164 Comm: daemon Not tainted 4.2.3 #1
[ 2860.657051] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R210 II/0JP7TR, BIOS 2.0.5 03/13/2012
[ 2860.657054]  ffffffff81c7f071 ffff880231e9fdf8 ffffffff8185d765 0000000000000002
[ 2860.657058]  0000000000000001 ffff880231e9fe28 ffffffff8146ed91 ffff880231e9fe18
[ 2860.657062]  ffffffff81cd1a5d ffff88023534f200 ffff8800b9811000 ffff880231e9fe38
[ 2860.657065] Call Trace:
[ 2860.657072]  [<ffffffff8185d765>] dump_stack+0x4f/0x7b
[ 2860.657075]  [<ffffffff8146ed91>] check_preemption_disabled+0xe1/0xf0
[ 2860.657078]  [<ffffffff8146edd3>] __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x13/0x20
[ 2860.657082]  [<ffffffff817e0bc7>] tcp_xmit_probe_skb+0xc7/0x100
[ 2860.657085]  [<ffffffff817e1e2d>] tcp_send_window_probe+0x2d/0x30
[ 2860.657089]  [<ffffffff817d1d8c>] do_tcp_setsockopt.isra.29+0x74c/0x830
[ 2860.657093]  [<ffffffff817d1e9c>] tcp_setsockopt+0x2c/0x30
[ 2860.657097]  [<ffffffff81767b74>] sock_common_setsockopt+0x14/0x20
[ 2860.657100]  [<ffffffff817669e1>] SyS_setsockopt+0x71/0xc0
[ 2860.657104]  [<ffffffff81865172>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x16/0x75

Since tcp_xmit_probe_skb() can be called from process context, use
NET_INC_STATS() instead of NET_INC_STATS_BH().

Fixes: e520af48c7e5 ("tcp: add TCPWinProbe and TCPKeepAlive SNMP counters")
Signed-off-by: Renato Westphal <renatow@taghos.com.br>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -3406,7 +3406,7 @@ static int tcp_xmit_probe_skb(struct soc
 	 */
 	tcp_init_nondata_skb(skb, tp->snd_una - !urgent, TCPHDR_ACK);
 	skb_mstamp_get(&skb->skb_mstamp);
-	NET_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk), mib);
+	NET_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), mib);
 	return tcp_transmit_skb(sk, skb, 0, GFP_ATOMIC);
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from renatowestphal@gmail.com are

queue-4.2/tcp-remove-improper-preemption-check-in-tcp_xmit_probe_skb.patch
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