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    tcp: must unclone packets before mangling them · c52e2421
    Eric Dumazet authored
    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: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
    Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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