Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix tcp header size miscalculation when window scale is unused

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From: Adam Langley
Date: Sunday, August 24, 2008 - 10:40 am

From: Philip Love <love_phil@emc.com>

tcp: fix tcp header size miscalculation when window scale is unused

The size of the TCP header is miscalculated when the window scale ends up being
0. Additionally, this can be induced by sending a SYN to a passive open port
with a window scale option with value 0.

Signed-off-by: Philip Love <love_phil@emc.com>
Signed-off-by: Adam Langley <agl@imperialviolet.org>

---

 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index a00532d..71eea00 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -468,7 +468,8 @@ static unsigned tcp_syn_options(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	}
 	if (likely(sysctl_tcp_window_scaling)) {
 		opts->ws = tp->rx_opt.rcv_wscale;
-		size += TCPOLEN_WSCALE_ALIGNED;
+		if (likely(opts->ws))
+			size += TCPOLEN_WSCALE_ALIGNED;
 	}
 	if (likely(sysctl_tcp_sack)) {
 		opts->options |= OPTION_SACK_ADVERTISE;
@@ -509,7 +510,8 @@ static unsigned tcp_synack_options(struct sock *sk,
 
 	if (likely(ireq->wscale_ok)) {
 		opts->ws = ireq->rcv_wscale;
-		size += TCPOLEN_WSCALE_ALIGNED;
+		if (likely(opts->ws))
+			size += TCPOLEN_WSCALE_ALIGNED;
 	}
 	if (likely(doing_ts)) {
 		opts->options |= OPTION_TS;
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