From: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:16:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: tcp: fix crash in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.35-rc6~15^2~1
X-Git-Url: http://bbs.cooldavid.org/git/?p=net-next-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=45e77d314585869dfe43c82679f7e08c9b35b898

tcp: fix crash in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue

It can happen that there are no packets in queue while calling
tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue(). tcp_write_queue_head() then returns
NULL and that gets deref'ed to get sacked into a local var.

There is no work to do if no packets are outstanding so we just
exit early.

This oops was introduced by 08ebd1721ab8fd (tcp: remove tp->lost_out
guard to make joining diff nicer).

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Reported-by: Lennart Schulte <lennart.schulte@nets.rwth-aachen.de>
Tested-by: Lennart Schulte <lennart.schulte@nets.rwth-aachen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index b4ed957f201..7ed9dc1042d 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -2208,6 +2208,9 @@ void tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue(struct sock *sk)
 	int mib_idx;
 	int fwd_rexmitting = 0;
 
+	if (!tp->packets_out)
+		return;
+
 	if (!tp->lost_out)
 		tp->retransmit_high = tp->snd_una;