From: Denis Kirjanov <kda@linux-powerpc.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:51:06 +0300
Subject: tcp: don't ignore ECN CWR on pure ACK
Git-commit: 2570284060b48f3f79d8f1a2698792f36c385e9a
Patch-mainline: 5.8-rc3
References: networking-stable-20_06_28
there is a problem with the CWR flag set in an incoming ACK segment
and it leads to the situation when the ECE flag is latched forever
the following packetdrill script shows what happens:
// Stack receives incoming segments with CE set
+0.1 <[ect0] . 11001:12001(1000) ack 1001 win 65535
+0.0 <[ce] . 12001:13001(1000) ack 1001 win 65535
+0.0 <[ect0] P. 13001:14001(1000) ack 1001 win 65535
// Stack repsonds with ECN ECHO
+0.0 >[noecn] . 1001:1001(0) ack 12001
+0.0 >[noecn] E. 1001:1001(0) ack 13001
+0.0 >[noecn] E. 1001:1001(0) ack 14001
// Write a packet
+0.1 write(3, ..., 1000) = 1000
+0.0 >[ect0] PE. 1001:2001(1000) ack 14001
// Pure ACK received
+0.01 <[noecn] W. 14001:14001(0) ack 2001 win 65535
// Since CWR was sent, this packet should NOT have ECE set
+0.1 write(3, ..., 1000) = 1000
+0.0 >[ect0] P. 2001:3001(1000) ack 14001
// but Linux will still keep ECE latched here, with packetdrill
// flagging a missing ECE flag, expecting
// >[ect0] PE. 2001:3001(1000) ack 14001
// in the script
In the situation above we will continue to send ECN ECHO packets
and trigger the peer to reduce the congestion window. To avoid that
we can check CWR on pure ACKs received.
v3:
- Add a sequence check to avoid sending an ACK to an ACK
v2:
- Adjusted the comment
- move CWR check before checking for unacknowledged packets
Signed-off-by: Denis Kirjanov <denis.kirjanov@suse.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
---
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 14 +++++++++++---
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -260,7 +260,8 @@ static void tcp_ecn_accept_cwr(struct so
* cwnd may be very low (even just 1 packet), so we should ACK
* immediately.
*/
- inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ack.pending |= ICSK_ACK_NOW;
+ if (TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq != TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq)
+ inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ack.pending |= ICSK_ACK_NOW;
}
}
@@ -3682,6 +3683,15 @@ static int tcp_ack(struct sock *sk, cons
tcp_in_ack_event(sk, ack_ev_flags);
}
+ /* This is a deviation from RFC3168 since it states that:
+ * "When the TCP data sender is ready to set the CWR bit after reducing
+ * the congestion window, it SHOULD set the CWR bit only on the first
+ * new data packet that it transmits."
+ * We accept CWR on pure ACKs to be more robust
+ * with widely-deployed TCP implementations that do this.
+ */
+ tcp_ecn_accept_cwr(sk, skb);
+
/* We passed data and got it acked, remove any soft error
* log. Something worked...
*/
@@ -4779,8 +4789,6 @@ static void tcp_data_queue(struct sock *
skb_dst_drop(skb);
__skb_pull(skb, tcp_hdr(skb)->doff * 4);
- tcp_ecn_accept_cwr(sk, skb);
-
tp->rx_opt.dsack = 0;
/* Queue data for delivery to the user.