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