[PATCH 2/3] af_rxrpc: Prevent RxRPC peers from ABORT-storming one another [ver #3]

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Thu Mar 6 18:18:49 EST 2014


From: Tim Smith <tim at electronghost.co.uk>

When an ABORT is sent, aborting a connection, the sender quite reasonably
forgets about the connection.  If another frame is received, another ABORT
will be sent.  When the receiver gets it, it no longer applies to an extant
connection, so an ABORT is sent, and so on...

Prevent this by never sending a rejection for an ABORT packet.

Signed-off-by: Tim Smith <tim at electronghost.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
---

 net/rxrpc/ar-input.c |   12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/rxrpc/ar-input.c b/net/rxrpc/ar-input.c
index 529572f18d1f..eb7e16276cc1 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/ar-input.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/ar-input.c
@@ -606,8 +606,10 @@ dead_call:
 	}
 
 	_debug("dead call");
-	skb->priority = RX_CALL_DEAD;
-	rxrpc_reject_packet(conn->trans->local, skb);
+	if (sp->hdr.type != RXRPC_PACKET_TYPE_ABORT) {
+		skb->priority = RX_CALL_DEAD;
+		rxrpc_reject_packet(conn->trans->local, skb);
+	}
 	goto done;
 
 	/* resend last packet of a completed call
@@ -790,8 +792,10 @@ cant_route_call:
 		skb->priority = RX_CALL_DEAD;
 	}
 
-	_debug("reject");
-	rxrpc_reject_packet(local, skb);
+	if (sp->hdr.type != RXRPC_PACKET_TYPE_ABORT) {
+		_debug("reject type %d",sp->hdr.type);
+		rxrpc_reject_packet(local, skb);
+	}
 	rxrpc_put_local(local);
 	_leave(" [no call]");
 	return;




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