netdev - [PATCH] ipv4: properly update pmtu

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Message-ID: <1345618109.5158.599.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:48:29 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>,
	Sylvain Munaut <s.munaut@...tever-company.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ipv4: properly update pmtu

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Sylvain Munault reported following info :

 - TCP connection get "stuck" with data in send queue when doing
   "large" transfers ( like typing 'ps ax' on a ssh connection )
 - Only happens on path where the PMTU is lower than the MTU of
   the interface
 - Is not present right after boot, it only appears 10-20min after
   boot or so. (and that's inside the _same_ TCP connection, it works
   fine at first and then in the same ssh session, it'll get stuck)
 - Definitely seems related to fragments somehow since I see a router
   sending ICMP message saying fragmentation is needed.
 - Exact same setup works fine with kernel 3.5.1

Problem happens when the 10 minutes (ip_rt_mtu_expires) expiration
period is over.

ip_rt_update_pmtu() calls dst_set_expires() to rearm a new expiration,
but dst_set_expires() does nothing because dst.expires is already set.

It seems we want to set the expires field to a new value, regardless
of prior one.

With help from Julian Anastasov.

Reported-by: Sylvain Munaut <s.munaut@...tever-company.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
CC: Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
---
 net/ipv4/route.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c
index e4ba974..8d6d320 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
@@ -956,7 +956,7 @@ static void ip_rt_update_pmtu(struct dst_entry *dst, struct sock *sk,
 		dst->obsolete = DST_OBSOLETE_KILL;
 	} else {
 		rt->rt_pmtu = mtu;
-		dst_set_expires(&rt->dst, ip_rt_mtu_expires);
+		rt->dst.expires = max(1UL, jiffies + ip_rt_mtu_expires);
 	}
 }
 


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