netdev - [PATCHv2, 1/1] tcp: accommodate sequence number to a peer's shrunk receive window caused by precision loss in window scaling

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Date:   Fri, 17 Feb 2017 17:04:55 +0000
From:   "Cui, Cheng" <Cheng.Cui@...app.com>
To:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: [PATCHv2, 1/1] tcp: accommodate sequence number to a peer's shrunk
 receive window caused by precision loss in window scaling

Prevent sending out a left-shifted sequence number from a Linux sender in 
response to a peer's shrunk receive-window caused by losing least significant
bits in window-scaling.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Signed-off-by: Cheng Cui <Cheng.Cui@...app.com>
---
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index 1d5331a..634146c 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -85,7 +85,8 @@ static void tcp_event_new_data_sent(struct sock *sk, const struct sk_buff *skb)
 		      tcp_skb_pcount(skb));
 }
 
-/* SND.NXT, if window was not shrunk.
+/* SND.NXT, if window was not shrunk or the amount of shrunk was less than one
+ * window scaling factor due to loss of precision.
  * If window has been shrunk, what should we make? It is not clear at all.
  * Using SND.UNA we will fail to open window, SND.NXT is out of window. :-(
  * Anything in between SND.UNA...SND.UNA+SND.WND also can be already
@@ -95,7 +96,9 @@ static inline __u32 tcp_acceptable_seq(const struct sock *sk)
 {
 	const struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 
-	if (!before(tcp_wnd_end(tp), tp->snd_nxt))
+	if (!before(tcp_wnd_end(tp), tp->snd_nxt) ||
+	    (tp->rx_opt.wscale_ok &&
+	     ((tp->snd_nxt - tcp_wnd_end(tp)) < (1 << tp->rx_opt.rcv_wscale))))
 		return tp->snd_nxt;
 	else
 		return tcp_wnd_end(tp);
--
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