Hit below panic due to skb is NULL, WARN wrong skb first.
if __tcp_retransmit_skb return failure e.g. -EAGAIN, it
needn't do further action in tcp_retransmit_skb.

gdb vmlinux
Reading symbols from vmlinux...done.
(gdb) p &((struct tcp_skb_cb *) \
&(((struct sk_buff *)0)->cb[0]))->tcp_gso_segs
$1 = (u16 *) 0x30 <irq_stack_union+48>

[ 9040.917533] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 
0000000000000030
[ 9040.926279] IP: tcp_retransmit_skb+0x5c/0xc0
[ 9040.931043] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 9040.933865] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
[ 9040.972151] RIP: 0010:tcp_retransmit_skb+0x5c/0xc0
[ 9040.977496] RSP: 0018:ffff8802bec83e40 EFLAGS: 00010202
[ 9041.062527] Call Trace:
[ 9041.065250]  <IRQ>
[ 9041.067489]  tcp_retransmit_timer+0x481/0x820
[ 9041.077697]  tcp_write_timer_handler+0xe9/0x230
[ 9041.082751]  tcp_write_timer+0x75/0x80
[ 9041.086932]  call_timer_fn+0x29/0x150
[ 9041.091018]  run_timer_softirq+0x411/0x460
[ 9041.105017]  __do_softirq+0x115/0x311
[ 9041.109103]  irq_exit+0xb0/0xc0
[ 9041.112605]  smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x67/0x140

Signed-off-by: Liu Changcheng <changcheng....@intel.com>

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index 383cac0..545b9b3 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -2920,7 +2920,10 @@ int __tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff 
*skb, int segs)
 int tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, int segs)
 {
        struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
-       int err = __tcp_retransmit_skb(sk, skb, segs);
+       int err = 0;
+
+       WARN_ONCE(!skb, "sk_buff is NULL\n");
+       err = __tcp_retransmit_skb(sk, skb, segs);
 
        if (err == 0) {
 #if FASTRETRANS_DEBUG > 0
@@ -2935,6 +2938,8 @@ int tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff 
*skb, int segs)
                if (!tp->retrans_stamp)
                        tp->retrans_stamp = tcp_skb_timestamp(skb);
 
+       } else {
+               return err;
        }
 
        if (tp->undo_retrans < 0)
-- 
2.7.4

Reply via email to