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    tcp: ensure skb->dev is NULL before leaving TCP stack · b738a185
    Eric Dumazet authored
    skb->rbnode is sharing three skb fields : next, prev, dev
    
    When a packet is sent, TCP keeps the original skb (master)
    in a rtx queue, which was converted to rbtree a while back.
    
    __tcp_transmit_skb() is responsible to clone the master skb,
    and add the TCP header to the clone before sending it
    to network layer.
    
    skb_clone() already clears skb->next and skb->prev, but copies
    the master oskb->dev into the clone.
    
    We need to clear skb->dev, otherwise lower layers could interpret
    the value as a pointer to a netdev.
    
    This old bug surfaced recently when commit 28f8bfd1
    ("netfilter: Support iif matches in POSTROUTING") was merged.
    
    Before this netfilter commit, skb->dev value was ignored and
    changed before reaching dev_queue_xmit()
    
    Fixes: 75c119af ("tcp: implement rb-tree based retransmit queue")
    Fixes: 28f8bfd1 ("netfilter: Support iif matches in POSTROUTING")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarMartin Zaharinov <micron10@gmail.com>
    Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
    Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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