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    tcp: Fix crash in TCP Fast Open · 7d157c2e
    Ben Hutchings authored
    Commit 355a901e ("tcp: make connect() mem charging friendly")
    changed tcp_send_syn_data() to perform an open-coded copy of the 'syn'
    skb rather than using skb_copy_expand().
    
    The open-coded copy does not cover the skb_shared_info::gso_segs
    field, so in the new skb it is left set to 0.  When this commit was
    backported into stable branches between 3.10.y and 3.16.7-ckty
    inclusive, it triggered the BUG() in tcp_transmit_skb().
    
    Since Linux 3.18 the GSO segment count is kept in the
    tcp_skb_cb::tcp_gso_segs field and tcp_send_syn_data() does copy the
    tcp_skb_cb structure to the new skb, so mainline and newer stable
    branches are not affected.
    
    Set skb_shared_info::gso_segs to the correct value of 1.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
    Acked-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    [ kamal: pre-3.18-stable only; no upstream commit ]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
    7d157c2e
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