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Subject[PATCH] Do not use TSO/GSO when there is urgent data
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This patch fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12014

Since most (if not all) implementations of TSO and even the in-kernel
software GSO do not update the urgent pointer when splitting a large
segment, it is necessary to turn off TSO/GSO for all outgoing traffic
with the URG pointer set.

Looking at tcp_current_mss (and the preceding comment) I even think
this was the original intention. However, this approach is insufficient,
because TSO/GSO is turned off only for newly created frames, not for
frames which were already pending at the arrival of a message with
MSG_OOB set. These frames were created when TSO/GSO was enabled,
so they may be large, and they will have the urgent pointer set
in tcp_transmit_skb().

With this patch, such large packets will be fragmented again before
going to the transmit routine.

As a side note, at least the following NICs are known to screw up
the urgent pointer in the TCP header when doing TSO:

Intel 82566MM (PCI ID 8086:1049)
Intel 82566DC (PCI ID 8086:104b)
Intel 82541GI (PCI ID 8086:1076)
Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 (PCI ID 14e4:164c)

Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
CC: Jan Sembera <jsembera@suse.cz>
CC: Ilpo Jarvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>

--
tcp_output.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -722,7 +722,8 @@ static void tcp_queue_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff
*skb)
static void tcp_set_skb_tso_segs(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
unsigned int mss_now)
{
- if (skb->len <= mss_now || !sk_can_gso(sk)) {
+ if (skb->len <= mss_now || !sk_can_gso(sk) ||
+ tcp_urg_mode(tcp_sk(sk))) {
/* Avoid the costly divide in the normal
* non-TSO case.
*/
@@ -1163,7 +1164,9 @@ static int tcp_init_tso_segs(struct sock *sk, struct
sk_buff *skb,
{
int tso_segs = tcp_skb_pcount(skb);

- if (!tso_segs || (tso_segs > 1 && tcp_skb_mss(skb) != mss_now)) {
+ if (!tso_segs ||
+ (tso_segs > 1 && (tcp_skb_mss(skb) != mss_now ||
+ tcp_urg_mode(tcp_sk(sk))))) {
tcp_set_skb_tso_segs(sk, skb, mss_now);
tso_segs = tcp_skb_pcount(skb);
}

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