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Date:   Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:21:42 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Ryan Sharpelletti <sharpelletti@...gle.com>,
        Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
        Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>,
        Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.19 22/91] tcp: only postpone PROBE_RTT if RTT is < current min_rtt estimate

From: Ryan Sharpelletti <sharpelletti@...gle.com>

[ Upstream commit 1b9e2a8c99a5c021041bfb2d512dc3ed92a94ffd ]

During loss recovery, retransmitted packets are forced to use TCP
timestamps to calculate the RTT samples, which have a millisecond
granularity. BBR is designed using a microsecond granularity. As a
result, multiple RTT samples could be truncated to the same RTT value
during loss recovery. This is problematic, as BBR will not enter
PROBE_RTT if the RTT sample is <= the current min_rtt sample, meaning
that if there are persistent losses, PROBE_RTT will constantly be
pushed off and potentially never re-entered. This patch makes sure
that BBR enters PROBE_RTT by checking if RTT sample is < the current
min_rtt sample, rather than <=.

The Netflix transport/TCP team discovered this bug in the Linux TCP
BBR code during lab tests.

Fixes: 0f8782ea1497 ("tcp_bbr: add BBR congestion control")
Signed-off-by: Ryan Sharpelletti <sharpelletti@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201116174412.1433277-1-sharpelletti.kdev@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_bbr.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_bbr.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_bbr.c
@@ -917,7 +917,7 @@ static void bbr_update_min_rtt(struct so
 	filter_expired = after(tcp_jiffies32,
 			       bbr->min_rtt_stamp + bbr_min_rtt_win_sec * HZ);
 	if (rs->rtt_us >= 0 &&
-	    (rs->rtt_us <= bbr->min_rtt_us ||
+	    (rs->rtt_us < bbr->min_rtt_us ||
 	     (filter_expired && !rs->is_ack_delayed))) {
 		bbr->min_rtt_us = rs->rtt_us;
 		bbr->min_rtt_stamp = tcp_jiffies32;


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