From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 3/3] tcp_cubic: fix divide by zero and endless loop on bad module params
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 19:29:43 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261001112948.322463-4-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261001112948.322463-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
beta_scale and cube_factor are computed once at module init. They need
1024 - beta to be positive and bic_scale * 10 to neither be 0 nor
overflow: beta == 1024 or bic_scale == 0 crash right there, and other
out of range values give garbage. Negative beta can also make
beta_scale 0. Reject them.
A small beta also gives a small beta_scale, and (cwnd * beta_scale) >> 3
truncates to 0 for a tiny cwnd, so the TCP friendliness loop never
ends. Make sure beta_scale is at least 8 at init, so this is always
>= 1 with cwnd >= 1 and the fast path is untouched.
This also caps alpha_cubic at 1 for beta < 512, which only affects
such unusual settings.
Fixes: df3271f3361b ("[TCP] BIC: CUBIC window growth (2.0)")
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
---
Target net-next since it is not a big problem.
---
net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c
index 119bf8cbb007c..33b383e1307fb 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c
@@ -504,12 +504,21 @@ static int __init cubictcp_register(void)
BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct bictcp) > ICSK_CA_PRIV_SIZE);
+ if (beta < 0 || beta >= BICTCP_BETA_SCALE ||
+ bic_scale <= 0 || bic_scale > INT_MAX / 10) {
+ pr_err("tcp_cubic: invalid beta %d or bic_scale %d\n",
+ beta, bic_scale);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
/* Precompute a bunch of the scaling factors that are used per-packet
* based on SRTT of 100ms
*/
beta_scale = 8*(BICTCP_BETA_SCALE+beta) / 3
/ (BICTCP_BETA_SCALE - beta);
+ /* bictcp_update() needs (cwnd * beta_scale) >> 3 to be >= 1 */
+ beta_scale = max(beta_scale, 8U);
cube_rtt_scale = (bic_scale * 10); /* 1024*c/rtt */
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-01 11:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-01 11:29 [PATCH net-next v2 0/3] tcp: fix a few divide-by-zero in congestion control modules Jiayuan Chen
2026-10-01 11:29 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/3] tcp_bic: fix divide by zero on max_increment == 0 Jiayuan Chen
2026-10-01 11:29 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] tcp_hybla: fix divide by zero on rtt0 " Jiayuan Chen
2026-10-01 11:29 ` Jiayuan Chen [this message]
2026-10-01 15:37 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/3] tcp_cubic: fix divide by zero and endless loop on bad module params Eric Dumazet
2026-10-01 11:33 ` [PATCH net-next v2 0/3] tcp: fix a few divide-by-zero in congestion control modules netdev-bot+sinfo
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