Ben Hutchings 7f8742aecd net: Allow driver to limit number of GSO segments per skb ... [ Upstream commit 30b678d844 ] 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 <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>		2012-10-02 09:47:04 -07:00
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acpi	ACPI: Store SRAT table revision	2012-01-25 17:24:57 -08:00
asm-generic	mm: pmd_read_atomic: fix 32bit PAE pmd walk vs pmd_populate SMP race condition	2012-06-10 00:32:57 +09:00
crypto
drm	drm/radeon/kms: add new BTC PCI ids	2012-06-10 00:33:04 +09:00
keys
linux	net: Allow driver to limit number of GSO segments per skb	2012-10-02 09:47:04 -07:00
math-emu
media	[media] tuner-core/v4l2-subdev: document that the type field has to be filled in	2011-07-07 15:04:23 -03:00
mtd
net	bonding: Fix corrupted queue_mapping	2012-07-16 08:47:37 -07:00
pcmcia	pcmcia: Make declaration and uses of struct pcmcia_device_id const	2011-05-06 07:46:15 +02:00
rdma	Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband	2011-05-26 12:13:57 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi	[SCSI] libsas: Add option for SATA soft reset	2011-05-26 22:49:33 -05:00
sound	ALSA: sb16 - Fix build errors on MIPS and others with 13bit ioctl size	2011-06-30 15:33:57 +02:00
target	target: Set additional sense length field in sense data	2012-01-25 17:25:00 -08:00
trace	random: add tracepoints for easier debugging and verification	2012-08-15 12:04:13 -07:00
video	OMAPDSS: HDMI: PHY burnout fix	2012-03-12 10:32:59 -07:00
xen	xen/xenbus: Reject replies with payload > XENSTORE_PAYLOAD_MAX.	2012-01-25 17:24:41 -08:00
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