5.15-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Inbal Schussheim commit f81e6c3fb06327bc49cdd6e559845293ba06a704 upstream. Exclude old ACKs before SND.UNA from the tcp fast path as well as ACKs after SND.NXT. Such ACKs will fall through to the slow path, where tcp_ack() performs the appropriate validation and challenge ACK handling according to RFC5961 and Commit 3d501dd326fb1c7 ("tcp: do not accept ACK of bytes we never sent"). This prevents old ACKs from being accepted or modifying connection state as part of the fast path before appropriate ACK validation is applied. In particular, this prevents payload carried by a segment with an excessively old ACK from advancing RCV.NXT before the ACK is rejected. Fixes: 31770e34e43d ("tcp: Revert "tcp: remove header prediction"") Reported-by: Amit Klein Reported-by: Tamir Shahar Reported-by: Inbal Schussheim Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Inbal Schussheim Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260914090408.1435080-2-inbal.lipshtat@mail.huji.ac.il Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c @@ -5891,6 +5891,7 @@ discard: * or pure receivers (this means either the sequence number or the ack * value must stay constant) * - Unexpected TCP option. + * - ACK sequence number is outside [SND.UNA, SND.NXT]. * * When these conditions are not satisfied it drops into a standard * receive procedure patterned after RFC793 to handle all cases. @@ -5938,7 +5939,7 @@ void tcp_rcv_established(struct sock *sk if ((tcp_flag_word(th) & TCP_HP_BITS) == tp->pred_flags && TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq == tp->rcv_nxt && - !after(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->ack_seq, tp->snd_nxt)) { + between(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->ack_seq, tp->snd_una, tp->snd_nxt)) { int tcp_header_len = tp->tcp_header_len; /* Timestamp header prediction: tcp_header_len