5.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Neal Cardwell ncardwell@google.com
[ Upstream commit e37ab7373696e650d3b6262a5b882aadad69bb9e ]
Fix the TCP loss recovery undo logic in tcp_packet_delayed() so that it can trigger undo even if TSQ prevents a fast recovery episode from reaching tcp_retransmit_skb().
Geumhwan Yu geumhwan.yu@samsung.com recently reported that after this commit from 2019:
commit bc9f38c8328e ("tcp: avoid unconditional congestion window undo on SYN retransmit")
...and before this fix we could have buggy scenarios like the following:
+ Due to reordering, a TCP connection receives some SACKs and enters a spurious fast recovery.
+ TSQ prevents all invocations of tcp_retransmit_skb(), because many skbs are queued in lower layers of the sending machine's network stack; thus tp->retrans_stamp remains 0.
+ The connection receives a TCP timestamp ECR value echoing a timestamp before the fast recovery, indicating that the fast recovery was spurious.
+ The connection fails to undo the spurious fast recovery because tp->retrans_stamp is 0, and thus tcp_packet_delayed() returns false, due to the new logic in the 2019 commit: commit bc9f38c8328e ("tcp: avoid unconditional congestion window undo on SYN retransmit")
This fix tweaks the logic to be more similar to the tcp_packet_delayed() logic before bc9f38c8328e, except that we take care not to be fooled by the FLAG_SYN_ACKED code path zeroing out tp->retrans_stamp (the bug noted and fixed by Yuchung in bc9f38c8328e).
Note that this returns the high-level behavior of tcp_packet_delayed() to again match the comment for the function, which says: "Nothing was retransmitted or returned timestamp is less than timestamp of the first retransmission." Note that this comment is in the original 2005-04-16 Linux git commit, so this is evidently long-standing behavior.
Fixes: bc9f38c8328e ("tcp: avoid unconditional congestion window undo on SYN retransmit") Reported-by: Geumhwan Yu geumhwan.yu@samsung.com Diagnosed-by: Geumhwan Yu geumhwan.yu@samsung.com Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell ncardwell@google.com Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng ycheng@google.com Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241001200517.2756803-2-ncardwell.sw@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c index cf6221e9fda50..75e954590bdd5 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c @@ -2294,8 +2294,22 @@ static bool tcp_skb_spurious_retrans(const struct tcp_sock *tp, */ static inline bool tcp_packet_delayed(const struct tcp_sock *tp) { - return tp->retrans_stamp && - tcp_tsopt_ecr_before(tp, tp->retrans_stamp); + const struct sock *sk = (const struct sock *)tp; + + if (tp->retrans_stamp && + tcp_tsopt_ecr_before(tp, tp->retrans_stamp)) + return true; /* got echoed TS before first retransmission */ + + /* Check if nothing was retransmitted (retrans_stamp==0), which may + * happen in fast recovery due to TSQ. But we ignore zero retrans_stamp + * in TCP_SYN_SENT, since when we set FLAG_SYN_ACKED we also clear + * retrans_stamp even if we had retransmitted the SYN. + */ + if (!tp->retrans_stamp && /* no record of a retransmit/SYN? */ + sk->sk_state != TCP_SYN_SENT) /* not the FLAG_SYN_ACKED case? */ + return true; /* nothing was retransmitted */ + + return false; }
/* Undo procedures. */