[34-longterm 138/209] tcp: Increase TCP_MAXSEG socket option minimum.

From: Paul Gortmaker
Date: Thu Apr 14 2011 - 14:18:32 EST


From: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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| This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release. |
| If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.|
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commit 7a1abd08d52fdeddb3e9a5a33f2f15cc6a5674d2 upstream

As noted by Steve Chen, since commit
f5fff5dc8a7a3f395b0525c02ba92c95d42b7390 ("tcp: advertise MSS
requested by user") we can end up with a situation where
tcp_select_initial_window() does a divide by a zero (or
even negative) mss value.

The problem is that sometimes we effectively subtract
TCPOLEN_TSTAMP_ALIGNED and/or TCPOLEN_MD5SIG_ALIGNED from the mss.

Fix this by increasing the minimum from 8 to 64.

Reported-by: Steve Chen <schen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/tcp.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 68cd299..5ad716b 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -2234,7 +2234,7 @@ static int do_tcp_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level,
/* Values greater than interface MTU won't take effect. However
* at the point when this call is done we typically don't yet
* know which interface is going to be used */
- if (val < 8 || val > MAX_TCP_WINDOW) {
+ if (val < 64 || val > MAX_TCP_WINDOW) {
err = -EINVAL;
break;
}
--
1.7.4.4

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