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Date:	Sat, 22 Sep 2012 23:03:47 -0400
From:	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
	Jerry Chu <hkchu@...gle.com>,
	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] tcp: TCP Fast Open Server - record retransmits after 3WHS

When recording the number of SYNACK retransmits for servers using TCP
Fast Open, fix the code to ensure that we copy over the retransmit
count from the request_sock after we receive the ACK that completes
the 3-way handshake.

The story here is similar to that of SYNACK RTT
measurements. Previously we were always doing this in
tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock(). However, for TCP Fast Open connections
tcp_v4_conn_req_fastopen() calls tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock() at the time we
receive the SYN. So for TFO we must copy the final SYNACK retransmit
count in tcp_rcv_state_process().

Note that copying over the SYNACK retransmit count will give us the
correct count since, as is mentioned in a comment in
tcp_retransmit_timer(), before we receive an ACK for our SYN-ACK a TFO
passive connection does not retransmit anything else (e.g., data or
FIN segments).

Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 36e069a1..e037697 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -5985,6 +5985,8 @@ int tcp_rcv_state_process(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 				 */
 				if (req) {
 					tcp_synack_rtt_meas(sk, req);
+					tp->total_retrans = req->retrans;
+
 					reqsk_fastopen_remove(sk, req, false);
 				} else {
 					/* Make sure socket is routed, for
-- 
1.7.7.3

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