From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>
To: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>,
"Jamal Hadi Salim" <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
"Jiri Pirko" <jiri@resnulli.us>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Zhiling Zou <zhilinz@nebusec.ai>, Ren Wei <enjou1224z@gmail.com>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
cake@lists.bufferbloat.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Cake] [PATCH net] net/sched: sch_cake: drop WARN_ON(1) for malformed packets in ACK filter
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:14:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260729191417.45665-1-toke@toke.dk> (raw)
The sch_cake ACK filter parses packets to find the TCP header and filter
duplicated ACKs if the flow is backlogged. The parsing code contains a
WARN_ON(1) which can be triggered by a malformed IP header in certain
cases. Depending on the system configuration, this leads either to
either spamming dmesg with warnings, or a panic if panic_on_warn is set.
The code already correctly skips the offending packet in the branch that
triggers the warning, so the WARN_ON itself doesn't really serve any
purpose. So just drop it altogether to avoid the inconvenient side
effects.
Fixes: 8b7138814f29 ("sch_cake: Add optional ACK filter")
Reported-by: Zhiling Zou <zhilinz@nebusec.ai>
Reported-by: Ren Wei <enjou1224z@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
---
net/sched/sch_cake.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/sched/sch_cake.c b/net/sched/sch_cake.c
index f64be54ead49..f25f60978631 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_cake.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_cake.c
@@ -1287,7 +1287,6 @@ static struct sk_buff *cake_ack_filter(struct cake_sched_data *q,
seglen = ipv6_payload_len(skb, ipv6h_check);
} else {
- WARN_ON(1); /* shouldn't happen */
continue;
}
--
2.55.0
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2026-07-29 19:14 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2026-08-04 1:50 ` [Cake] Re: [PATCH net] net/sched: sch_cake: drop WARN_ON(1) for malformed packets in ACK filter patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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