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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2019 10:38:08 -0700
Subject: tcp: enforce tcp_min_snd_mss in tcp_mtu_probing()
Patch-mainline: Not yet, embargo
References: bsc#1137586 CVE-2019-11479

If mtu probing is enabled tcp_mtu_probing() could very well end up
with a too small MSS.

Use the new sysctl tcp_min_snd_mss to make sure MSS search
is performed in an acceptable range.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Looney <jtl@netflix.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Cc: Bruce Curtis <brucec@netflix.com>
Acked-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ static void tcp_mtu_probing(struct inet_connection_sock *icsk, struct sock *sk)
 			mss = tcp_mtu_to_mss(sk, icsk->icsk_mtup.search_low) >> 1;
 			mss = min(net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_base_mss, mss);
 			mss = max(mss, 68 - tp->tcp_header_len);
+			mss = max(mss, net->ipv4.sysctl_tcp_min_snd_mss);
 			icsk->icsk_mtup.search_low = tcp_mss_to_mtu(sk, mss);
 			tcp_sync_mss(sk, icsk->icsk_pmtu_cookie);
 		}