netdev - Re: NAT stops forwarding ACKs after PMTU discovery

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Date:	Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:03:12 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>
Cc:	Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@...ooh.org>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NAT stops forwarding ACKs after PMTU discovery

On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 17:00 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> Code like this seems very suspect to me :
> 
> before(sack, receiver->td_end + 1)
> 

My suggestion would be to try :

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c
index 2f80107..1862902 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c
@@ -656,12 +656,12 @@ static bool tcp_in_window(const struct nf_conn *ct,
 	pr_debug("tcp_in_window: I=%i II=%i III=%i IV=%i\n",
 		 before(seq, sender->td_maxend + 1),
 		 (in_recv_win ? 1 : 0),
-		 before(sack, receiver->td_end + 1),
+		 before(sack, receiver->td_end + MAXACKWINDOW(sender) + 1),
 		 after(sack, receiver->td_end - MAXACKWINDOW(sender) - 1));
 
 	if (before(seq, sender->td_maxend + 1) &&
 	    in_recv_win &&
-	    before(sack, receiver->td_end + 1) &&
+	    before(sack, receiver->td_end + MAXACKWINDOW(sender) + 1) &&
 	    after(sack, receiver->td_end - MAXACKWINDOW(sender) - 1)) {
 		/*
 		 * Take into account window scaling (RFC 1323).


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