Subject: [PATCH 13/15] tcp: fix NULL ref in tail loss probe

From: Yuchung Cheng <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 14:38:38 -0800

[ Upstream commit b2b7af861122a0c0f6260155c29a1b2e594cd5b5 ]

TCP loss probe timer may fire when the retranmission queue is empty but
has a non-zero tp->packets_out counter. tcp_send_loss_probe will call
tcp_rearm_rto which triggers NULL pointer reference by fetching the
retranmission queue head in its sub-routines.

Add a more detailed warning to help catch the root cause of the inflight
accounting inconsistency.

Reported-by: Rafael Tinoco <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email-masked]>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index 12cd64382768..1b31b0a1c7fa 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -2476,14 +2476,18 @@ void tcp_send_loss_probe(struct sock *sk)
 		skb = tcp_write_queue_tail(sk);
 	}
 
+	if (unlikely(!skb)) {
+		WARN_ONCE(tp->packets_out,
+			  "invalid inflight: %u state %u cwnd %u mss %d\n",
+			  tp->packets_out, sk->sk_state, tp->snd_cwnd, mss);
+		inet_csk(sk)->icsk_pending = 0;
+		return;
+	}
+
 	/* At most one outstanding TLP retransmission. */
 	if (tp->tlp_high_seq)
 		goto rearm_timer;
 
-	/* Retransmit last segment. */
-	if (WARN_ON(!skb))
-		goto rearm_timer;
-
 	if (skb_still_in_host_queue(sk, skb))
 		goto rearm_timer;
 
-- 
2.19.2