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Message-ID: <CANn89iJNa+UqZrONT0tTgN+MjnFZJQQ8zuH=nG+3XRRMjK9TfA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 16:37:59 +0200
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To: "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@...nel.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>, Jerry Chu <hkchu@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
mptcp@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 1/2] tcp: process the 3rd ACK with sk_socket for TFO/MPTCP
On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 12:34 PM Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)
<matttbe@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> The 'Fixes' commit recently changed the behaviour of TCP by skipping the
> processing of the 3rd ACK when a sk->sk_socket is set. The goal was to
> skip tcp_ack_snd_check() in tcp_rcv_state_process() not to send an
> unnecessary ACK in case of simultaneous connect(). Unfortunately, that
> had an impact on TFO and MPTCP.
>
> I started to look at the impact on MPTCP, because the MPTCP CI found
> some issues with the MPTCP Packetdrill tests [1]. Then Paolo suggested
> me to look at the impact on TFO with "plain" TCP.
>
> For MPTCP, when receiving the 3rd ACK of a request adding a new path
> (MP_JOIN), sk->sk_socket will be set, and point to the MPTCP sock that
> has been created when the MPTCP connection got established before with
> the first path. The newly added 'goto' will then skip the processing of
> the segment text (step 7) and not go through tcp_data_queue() where the
> MPTCP options are validated, and some actions are triggered, e.g.
> sending the MPJ 4th ACK [2] as demonstrated by the new errors when
> running a packetdrill test [3] establishing a second subflow.
>
> This doesn't fully break MPTCP, mainly the 4th MPJ ACK that will be
> delayed. Still, we don't want to have this behaviour as it delays the
> switch to the fully established mode, and invalid MPTCP options in this
> 3rd ACK will not be caught any more. This modification also affects the
> MPTCP + TFO feature as well, and being the reason why the selftests
> started to be unstable the last few days [4].
>
> For TFO, the existing 'basic-cookie-not-reqd' test [5] was no longer
> passing: if the 3rd ACK contains data, and the connection is accept()ed
> before receiving them, these data would no longer be processed, and thus
> not ACKed.
>
> One last thing about MPTCP, in case of simultaneous connect(), a
> fallback to TCP will be done, which seems fine:
>
> `../common/defaults.sh`
>
> 0 socket(..., SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_NONBLOCK, IPPROTO_MPTCP) = 3
> +0 connect(3, ..., ...) = -1 EINPROGRESS (Operation now in progress)
>
> +0 > S 0:0(0) <mss 1460, sackOK, TS val 100 ecr 0, nop, wscale 8, mpcapable v1 flags[flag_h] nokey>
> +0 < S 0:0(0) win 1000 <mss 1460, sackOK, TS val 407 ecr 0, nop, wscale 8, mpcapable v1 flags[flag_h] nokey>
> +0 > S. 0:0(0) ack 1 <mss 1460, sackOK, TS val 330 ecr 0, nop, wscale 8, mpcapable v1 flags[flag_h] nokey>
> +0 < S. 0:0(0) ack 1 win 65535 <mss 1460, sackOK, TS val 700 ecr 100, nop, wscale 8, mpcapable v1 flags[flag_h] key[skey=2]>
>
> +0 write(3, ..., 100) = 100
> +0 > . 1:1(0) ack 1 <nop, nop, TS val 845707014 ecr 700, nop, nop, sack 0:1>
> +0 > P. 1:101(100) ack 1 <nop, nop, TS val 845958933 ecr 700>
>
> Simultaneous SYN-data crossing is also not supported by TFO, see [6].
>
> Link: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/actions/runs/9936227696 [1]
> Link: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8684#fig_tokens [2]
> Link: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/packetdrill/blob/mptcp-net-next/gtests/net/mptcp/syscalls/accept.pkt#L28 [3]
> Link: https://netdev.bots.linux.dev/contest.html?executor=vmksft-mptcp-dbg&test=mptcp-connect-sh [4]
> Link: https://github.com/google/packetdrill/blob/master/gtests/net/tcp/fastopen/server/basic-cookie-not-reqd.pkt#L21 [5]
> Link: https://github.com/google/packetdrill/blob/master/gtests/net/tcp/fastopen/client/simultaneous-fast-open.pkt [6]
> Fixes: 23e89e8ee7be ("tcp: Don't drop SYN+ACK for simultaneous connect().")
> Suggested-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
> Suggested-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>
> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@...nel.org>
> ---
> Notes:
> - We could also drop this 'goto consume', and send the unnecessary ACK
> in this simultaneous connect case, which doesn't seem to be a "real"
> case, more something for fuzzers. But that's not what the RFC 9293
> recommends to do.
> - v2:
> - Check if the SYN bit is set instead of looking for TFO and MPTCP
> specific attributes, as suggested by Kuniyuki.
> - Updated the comment above
> - Please note that the v2 has been sent mainly to satisfy the CI (to
> be able to catch new bugs with MPTCP), and because the suggestion
> from Kuniyuki looks better. It has not been sent to urge TCP
> maintainers to review it quicker than it should, please take your
> time and enjoy netdev.conf :)
> ---
> net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
> index ff9ab3d01ced..bfe1bc69dc3e 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
> @@ -6820,7 +6820,12 @@ tcp_rcv_state_process(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
> if (sk->sk_shutdown & SEND_SHUTDOWN)
> tcp_shutdown(sk, SEND_SHUTDOWN);
>
> - if (sk->sk_socket)
> + /* For crossed SYN cases, not to send an unnecessary ACK.
> + * Note that sk->sk_socket can be assigned in other cases, e.g.
> + * with TFO (if accept()'ed before the 3rd ACK) and MPTCP (MPJ:
> + * sk_socket is the parent MPTCP sock).
> + */
> + if (sk->sk_socket && th->syn)
> goto consume;
I think we should simply remove this part completely, because we
should send an ack anyway.
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index ff9ab3d01ced89570903d3a9f649a637c5e07a90..91357d4713182078debd746a224046cba80ea3ce
100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -6820,8 +6820,6 @@ tcp_rcv_state_process(struct sock *sk, struct
sk_buff *skb)
if (sk->sk_shutdown & SEND_SHUTDOWN)
tcp_shutdown(sk, SEND_SHUTDOWN);
- if (sk->sk_socket)
- goto consume;
break;
case TCP_FIN_WAIT1: {
I have a failing packetdrill test after Kuniyuki patch :
//
// Test the simultaneous open scenario that both end sends
// SYN/data. Although we don't support that the connection should
// still be established.
//
`../../common/defaults.sh
../../common/set_sysctls.py /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps=0`
// Cache warmup: send a Fast Open cookie request
0 socket(..., SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP) = 3
+0 fcntl(3, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
+0 sendto(3, ..., 0, MSG_FASTOPEN, ..., ...) = -1 EINPROGRESS
(Operation is now in progress)
+0 > S 0:0(0) <mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale 8,FO,nop,nop>
+.01 < S. 123:123(0) ack 1 win 14600 <mss
1460,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale 6,FO abcd1234,nop,nop>
+0 > . 1:1(0) ack 1
+.01 close(3) = 0
+0 > F. 1:1(0) ack 1
+.01 < F. 1:1(0) ack 2 win 92
+0 > . 2:2(0) ack 2
//
// Test: simulatenous fast open
//
+.01 socket(..., SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP) = 4
+0 fcntl(4, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
+0 sendto(4, ..., 1000, MSG_FASTOPEN, ..., ...) = 1000
+0 > S 0:1000(1000) <mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale 8,FO
abcd1234,nop,nop>
// Simul. SYN-data crossing: we don't support that yet so ack only remote ISN
+.005 < S 1234:1734(500) win 14600 <mss 1040,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale
6,FO 87654321,nop,nop>
+0 > S. 0:0(0) ack 1235 <mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale 8>
// SYN data is never retried.
+.045 < S. 1234:1234(0) ack 1001 win 14600 <mss
940,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale 6,FO 12345678,nop,nop>
+0 > . 1001:1001(0) ack 1
// The other end retries
+.1 < P. 1:501(500) ack 1000 win 257
+0 > . 1001:1001(0) ack 501
+0 read(4, ..., 4096) = 500
+0 close(4) = 0
+0 > F. 1001:1001(0) ack 501
+.05 < F. 501:501(0) ack 1002 win 257
+0 > . 1002:1002(0) ack 502
`/tmp/sysctl_restore_${PPID}.sh`
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