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tcp: len check is unnecessarily devastating, change to WARN_ON

All callers are prepared for alloc failures anyway, so this error
can safely be boomeranged to the callers domain without super
bad consequences. ...At worst the connection might go into a state
where each RTO tries to (unsuccessfully) re-fragment with such
a mis-sized value and eventually dies.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ilpo Järvinen 14 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 2 1
      net/ipv4/tcp_output.c

+ 2 - 1
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c

@@ -1003,7 +1003,8 @@ int tcp_fragment(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, u32 len,
 	int nlen;
 	int nlen;
 	u8 flags;
 	u8 flags;
 
 
-	BUG_ON(len > skb->len);
+	if (WARN_ON(len > skb->len))
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 
 	nsize = skb_headlen(skb) - len;
 	nsize = skb_headlen(skb) - len;
 	if (nsize < 0)
 	if (nsize < 0)