tcp: fix NULL ref in tail loss probe

[ Upstream commit b2b7af861122a0c0f6260155c29a1b2e594cd5b5 ]

TCP loss probe timer may fire when the retranmission queue is empty but
has a non-zero tp->packets_out counter. tcp_send_loss_probe will call
tcp_rearm_rto which triggers NULL pointer reference by fetching the
retranmission queue head in its sub-routines.

Add a more detailed warning to help catch the root cause of the inflight
accounting inconsistency.
Reported-by: NRafael Tinoco <rafael.tinoco@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: NYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

net/ipv4/tcp_output.c

@@ -2479,15 +2479,18 @@ void tcp_send_loss_probe(struct sock *sk)
 		goto rearm_timer;
 	}
 	skb = skb_rb_last(&sk->tcp_rtx_queue);
+	if (unlikely(!skb)) {
+		WARN_ONCE(tp->packets_out,
+			  "invalid inflight: %u state %u cwnd %u mss %d\n",
+			  tp->packets_out, sk->sk_state, tp->snd_cwnd, mss);
+		inet_csk(sk)->icsk_pending = 0;
+		return;
+	}
 
 	/* At most one outstanding TLP retransmission. */
 	if (tp->tlp_high_seq)
 		goto rearm_timer;
 
-	/* Retransmit last segment. */
-	if (WARN_ON(!skb))
-		goto rearm_timer;
-
 	if (skb_still_in_host_queue(sk, skb))
 		goto rearm_timer;