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Commit ac9e70b1 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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tcp: fix potential memory corruption

Imagine initial value of max_skb_frags is 17, and last
skb in write queue has 15 frags.

Then max_skb_frags is lowered to 14 or smaller value.

tcp_sendmsg() will then be allowed to add additional page frags
and eventually go past MAX_SKB_FRAGS, overflowing struct
skb_shared_info.

Fixes: 5f74f82e

 ("net:Add sysctl_max_skb_frags")
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Hans Westgaard Ry <hans.westgaard.ry@oracle.com>
Cc: Håkon Bugge <haakon.bugge@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 9512925a
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