tcp: fix to allow timestamp undo if no retransmits were sent
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>