From 3d2af9cce3133b3bc596a9d065c6f9d93419ccfb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neal Cardwell Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 17:08:21 +0000 Subject: tcp: fix indefinite deferral of RTO with SACK reneging This commit fixes a bug that can cause a TCP data sender to repeatedly defer RTOs when encountering SACK reneging. The bug is that when we're in fast recovery in a scenario with SACK reneging, every time we get an ACK we call tcp_check_sack_reneging() and it can note the apparent SACK reneging and rearm the RTO timer for srtt/2 into the future. In some SACK reneging scenarios that can happen repeatedly until the receive window fills up, at which point the sender can't send any more, the ACKs stop arriving, and the RTO fires at srtt/2 after the last ACK. But that can take far too long (O(10 secs)), since the connection is stuck in fast recovery with a low cwnd that cannot grow beyond ssthresh, even if more bandwidth is available. This fix changes the logic in tcp_check_sack_reneging() to only rearm the RTO timer if data is cumulatively ACKed, indicating forward progress. This avoids this kind of nearly infinite loop of RTO timer re-arming. In addition, this meets the goals of tcp_check_sack_reneging() in handling Windows TCP behavior that looks temporarily like SACK reneging but is not really. Many thanks to Jakub Kicinski and Neil Spring, who reported this issue and provided critical packet traces that enabled root-causing this issue. Also, many thanks to Jakub Kicinski for testing this fix. Fixes: 5ae344c949e7 ("tcp: reduce spurious retransmits due to transient SACK reneging") Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski Reported-by: Neil Spring Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Yuchung Cheng Tested-by: Jakub Kicinski Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221021170821.1093930-1-ncardwell.kernel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/ipv4/tcp_input.c') diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c index bc2ea12221f9..0640453fce54 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c @@ -2192,7 +2192,8 @@ void tcp_enter_loss(struct sock *sk) */ static bool tcp_check_sack_reneging(struct sock *sk, int flag) { - if (flag & FLAG_SACK_RENEGING) { + if (flag & FLAG_SACK_RENEGING && + flag & FLAG_SND_UNA_ADVANCED) { struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk); unsigned long delay = max(usecs_to_jiffies(tp->srtt_us >> 4), msecs_to_jiffies(10)); -- cgit