[PATCH net 2/3] rxrpc: Fix ACK generation from the connection event processor

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Wed Nov 29 07:33:57 PST 2017


Repeat terminal ACKs and now terminal ACKs are now generated from the
connection event processor rather from call handling as this allows us to
discard client call structures as soon as possible and free up the channel
for a follow on call.

However, in ACKs so generated, the additional information trailer is
malformed because the padding that's meant to be in the middle isn't
included in what's transmitted.

Fix it so that the 3 bytes of padding are included in the transmission.

Further, the trailer is misaligned because of the padding, so assigment to
the u16 and u32 fields inside it might cause problems on some arches, so
fix this by breaking the padding and the trailer out of the packed struct.

(This also deals with potential compiler weirdies where some of the nested
structs are packed and some aren't).

The symptoms can be seen in wireshark as terminal DUPLICATE or IDLE ACK
packets in which the Max MTU, Interface MTU and rwind fields have weird
values and the Max Packets field is apparently missing.

Reported-by: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman at auristor.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
---

 net/rxrpc/conn_event.c |   50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/rxrpc/conn_event.c b/net/rxrpc/conn_event.c
index 9e9a8db1bc9c..4ca11be6be3c 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/conn_event.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/conn_event.c
@@ -30,22 +30,18 @@ static void rxrpc_conn_retransmit_call(struct rxrpc_connection *conn,
 	struct rxrpc_skb_priv *sp = skb ? rxrpc_skb(skb) : NULL;
 	struct rxrpc_channel *chan;
 	struct msghdr msg;
-	struct kvec iov;
+	struct kvec iov[3];
 	struct {
 		struct rxrpc_wire_header whdr;
 		union {
-			struct {
-				__be32 code;
-			} abort;
-			struct {
-				struct rxrpc_ackpacket ack;
-				u8 padding[3];
-				struct rxrpc_ackinfo info;
-			};
+			__be32 abort_code;
+			struct rxrpc_ackpacket ack;
 		};
 	} __attribute__((packed)) pkt;
+	struct rxrpc_ackinfo ack_info;
 	size_t len;
-	u32 serial, mtu, call_id;
+	int ioc;
+	u32 serial, mtu, call_id, padding;
 
 	_enter("%d", conn->debug_id);
 
@@ -66,6 +62,13 @@ static void rxrpc_conn_retransmit_call(struct rxrpc_connection *conn,
 	msg.msg_controllen = 0;
 	msg.msg_flags	= 0;
 
+	iov[0].iov_base	= &pkt;
+	iov[0].iov_len	= sizeof(pkt.whdr);
+	iov[1].iov_base	= &padding;
+	iov[1].iov_len	= 3;
+	iov[2].iov_base	= &ack_info;
+	iov[2].iov_len	= sizeof(ack_info);
+
 	pkt.whdr.epoch		= htonl(conn->proto.epoch);
 	pkt.whdr.cid		= htonl(conn->proto.cid);
 	pkt.whdr.callNumber	= htonl(call_id);
@@ -80,8 +83,10 @@ static void rxrpc_conn_retransmit_call(struct rxrpc_connection *conn,
 	len = sizeof(pkt.whdr);
 	switch (chan->last_type) {
 	case RXRPC_PACKET_TYPE_ABORT:
-		pkt.abort.code	= htonl(chan->last_abort);
-		len += sizeof(pkt.abort);
+		pkt.abort_code	= htonl(chan->last_abort);
+		iov[0].iov_len += sizeof(pkt.abort_code);
+		len += sizeof(pkt.abort_code);
+		ioc = 1;
 		break;
 
 	case RXRPC_PACKET_TYPE_ACK:
@@ -94,13 +99,19 @@ static void rxrpc_conn_retransmit_call(struct rxrpc_connection *conn,
 		pkt.ack.serial		= htonl(skb ? sp->hdr.serial : 0);
 		pkt.ack.reason		= skb ? RXRPC_ACK_DUPLICATE : RXRPC_ACK_IDLE;
 		pkt.ack.nAcks		= 0;
-		pkt.info.rxMTU		= htonl(rxrpc_rx_mtu);
-		pkt.info.maxMTU		= htonl(mtu);
-		pkt.info.rwind		= htonl(rxrpc_rx_window_size);
-		pkt.info.jumbo_max	= htonl(rxrpc_rx_jumbo_max);
+		ack_info.rxMTU		= htonl(rxrpc_rx_mtu);
+		ack_info.maxMTU		= htonl(mtu);
+		ack_info.rwind		= htonl(rxrpc_rx_window_size);
+		ack_info.jumbo_max	= htonl(rxrpc_rx_jumbo_max);
 		pkt.whdr.flags		|= RXRPC_SLOW_START_OK;
-		len += sizeof(pkt.ack) + sizeof(pkt.info);
+		padding			= 0;
+		iov[0].iov_len += sizeof(pkt.ack);
+		len += sizeof(pkt.ack) + 3 + sizeof(ack_info);
+		ioc = 3;
 		break;
+
+	default:
+		return;
 	}
 
 	/* Resync with __rxrpc_disconnect_call() and check that the last call
@@ -110,9 +121,6 @@ static void rxrpc_conn_retransmit_call(struct rxrpc_connection *conn,
 	if (READ_ONCE(chan->last_call) != call_id)
 		return;
 
-	iov.iov_base	= &pkt;
-	iov.iov_len	= len;
-
 	serial = atomic_inc_return(&conn->serial);
 	pkt.whdr.serial = htonl(serial);
 
@@ -127,7 +135,7 @@ static void rxrpc_conn_retransmit_call(struct rxrpc_connection *conn,
 		break;
 	}
 
-	kernel_sendmsg(conn->params.local->socket, &msg, &iov, 1, len);
+	kernel_sendmsg(conn->params.local->socket, &msg, iov, ioc, len);
 	_leave("");
 	return;
 }




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