tcp: limit payload size of sacked skbs
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Mon, 17 Jun 2019 17:03:51 +0000 (10:03 -0700)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 19 Jun 2019 22:16:58 +0000 (23:16 +0100)
commit7d79c8c8c42378e87e88ec15738b27d0aff68b87
treeb4dfbe9d519033eb0659adda57daab173faabbbd
parentc077256110c04fe75c0ab98c073f7adf3a102ef3
tcp: limit payload size of sacked skbs

Jonathan Looney reported that TCP can trigger the following crash
in tcp_shifted_skb() :

BUG_ON(tcp_skb_pcount(skb) < pcount);

This can happen if the remote peer has advertized the smallest
MSS that linux TCP accepts : 48

An skb can hold 17 fragments, and each fragment can hold 32KB
on x86, or 64KB on PowerPC.

This means that the 16bit witdh of TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tcp_gso_segs
can overflow.

Note that tcp_sendmsg() builds skbs with less than 64KB
of payload, so this problem needs SACK to be enabled.
SACK blocks allow TCP to coalesce multiple skbs in the retransmit
queue, thus filling the 17 fragments to maximal capacity.

CVE-2019-11477 -- u16 overflow of TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tcp_gso_segs

Fixes: 832d11c5cd07 ("tcp: Try to restore large SKBs while SACK processing")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Jonathan Looney <jtl@netflix.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Bruce Curtis <brucec@netflix.com>
Cc: Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@gmail.com>
Gbp-Pq: Topic bugfix/all
Gbp-Pq: Name tcp-limit-payload-size-of-sacked-skbs.patch
include/linux/tcp.h
include/net/tcp.h
net/ipv4/tcp.c
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c