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Message-ID: <1274042939.2299.27.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Date:	Sun, 16 May 2010 22:48:59 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Bijay Singh <Bijay.Singh@...vus.com>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"<bhaskie@...il.com>" <bhaskie@...il.com>,
	"<bhutchings@...arflare.com>" <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Subject: Re: TCP-MD5 checksum failure on x86_64 SMP

Le mardi 11 mai 2010 à 22:50 +0200, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
> Le mardi 11 mai 2010 à 04:08 +0000, Bijay Singh a écrit :
> > Hi Eric,
> > 
> > I guess that makes me the enviable one. So I am keen to test out this feature completely, as long as I know what to do as a next step, directions, patches.
> > 
> > Thanks
> 
> 
> I believe third problem comes from commit 4957faad
> (TCPCT part 1g: Responder Cookie => Initiator), from William Allen
> Simpson.
> 
> When a SYN-ACK packet is built (in tcp_synack_options()),
> it specifically forbids a TIMESTAMP option to be included if SACK is
> also selected :
> 
> doing_ts &= !ireq->sack_ok;
> 
> Problem is this mask is done on a local variable. socket is still marked
> as being timestamp enabled.
> 
> 
> Later, when we build tcp options for data packets, we _include_ a
> timestamp, while our SYNACK didnt mention the option.  
> 
> So the following trafic can happen (and fails) :
> 
> 18:38:29.041966 IP 192.168.0.33.58906 > 192.168.0.56.22226: Flags [S], seq 4014064674, win 8860, options [mss 4430,sackOK,TS val 519041 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7,nop,nop,md5can't check - 9b44126367effcf3247fcbf6da76b24d], length 0
> 18:38:29.042072 IP 192.168.0.56.22226 > 192.168.0.33.58906: Flags [S.], seq 586328714, ack 4014064675, win 5792, options [nop,nop,md5can't check - badd847799ded46f39642c341cc7e92b,mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale 7], length 0
> 18:38:29.042093 IP 192.168.0.33.58906 > 192.168.0.56.22226: Flags [.], ack 1, win 70, options [nop,nop,md5can't check - 3994ef6987df02a592963fba04c5d313], length 0
> 18:38:29.043217 IP 192.168.0.33.58906 > 192.168.0.56.22226: Flags [.], seq 1:1441, ack 1, win 70, options [nop,nop,md5can't check - 8399f7ccab3a6b8c5a3027ed58bba314], length 1440
> 18:38:29.043226 IP 192.168.0.33.58906 > 192.168.0.56.22226: Flags [P.], seq 1441:2501, ack 1, win 70, options [nop,nop,md5can't check - 701ebf65b1894a6bed4cefbf7a56596a], length 1060
> 18:38:29.043374 IP 192.168.0.56.22226 > 192.168.0.33.58906: Flags [.], ack 1441, win 68, options [nop,nop,md5can't check - 1badb315ba436ab59bff5b37daa871be,nop,nop,TS val 113051377 ecr 519041], length 0
> 18:38:29.043383 IP 192.168.0.56.22226 > 192.168.0.33.58906: Flags [.], ack 2501, win 91, options [nop,nop,md5can't check - 120564dcb99f822f3b70910282a6ed9d,nop,nop,TS val 113051377 ecr 519041], length 0
> 18:38:29.043673 IP 192.168.0.56.22226 > 192.168.0.33.58906: Flags [.], seq 1:1429, ack 2501, win 91, options [nop,nop,md5can't check - fe5dfb438065373b52ba85bf800876a8,nop,nop,TS val 113051377 ecr 519041], length 1428
> 18:38:29.043681 IP 192.168.0.56.22226 > 192.168.0.33.58906: Flags [P.], seq 1429:2500, ack 2501, win 91, options [nop,nop,md5can't check - 7a910cd5ff357bf0e2c8d3489aafaa86,nop,nop,TS val 113051377 ecr 519041], length 1071
> 18:38:32.037786 IP 192.168.0.56.22226 > 192.168.0.33.58906: Flags [.], seq 1:1429, ack 2501, win 91, options [nop,nop,md5can't check - fe5dfb438065373b52ba85bf800876a8,nop,nop,TS val 113051677 ecr 519041], length 1428
> 18:38:38.037708 IP 192.168.0.56.22226 > 192.168.0.33.58906: Flags [.], seq 1:1429, ack 2501, win 91, options [nop,nop,md5can't check - fe5dfb438065373b52ba85bf800876a8,nop,nop,TS val 113052277 ecr 519041], length 1428
> 18:38:50.037524 IP 192.168.0.56.22226 > 192.168.0.33.58906: Flags [.], seq 1:1429, ack 2501, win 91, options [nop,nop,md5can't check - fe5dfb438065373b52ba85bf800876a8,nop,nop,TS val 113053477 ecr 519041], length 1428
> 
> 
> Could you try following patch ?
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
> index 5db3a2c..0be21cd 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
> @@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ static unsigned tcp_synack_options(struct sock *sk,
>  	u8 cookie_plus = (xvp != NULL && !xvp->cookie_out_never) ?
>  			 xvp->cookie_plus :
>  			 0;
> -	bool doing_ts = ireq->tstamp_ok;
> +	bool doing_ts;
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_TCP_MD5SIG
>  	*md5 = tcp_rsk(req)->af_specific->md5_lookup(sk, req);
> @@ -681,11 +681,12 @@ static unsigned tcp_synack_options(struct sock *sk,
>  		 * rather than TS in order to fit in better with old,
>  		 * buggy kernels, but that was deemed to be unnecessary.
>  		 */
> -		doing_ts &= !ireq->sack_ok;
> +		ireq->tstamp_ok &= !ireq->sack_ok;
>  	}
>  #else
>  	*md5 = NULL;
>  #endif
> +	doing_ts = ireq->tstamp_ok;
>  
>  	/* We always send an MSS option. */
>  	opts->mss = mss;
> 
> 
> 
> 

Bijay, had you tested this patch by any chance ?

Thanks


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