netdev - [PATCH v3 net 2/5] tcp: prevent bogus FRTO undos with non-SACK flows

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Message-Id: <1520936711-16784-3-git-send-email-ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Date:   Tue, 13 Mar 2018 12:25:08 +0200
From:   Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
        Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 net 2/5] tcp: prevent bogus FRTO undos with non-SACK flows

If SACK is not enabled and the first cumulative ACK after the RTO
retransmission covers more than the retransmitted skb, a spurious
FRTO undo will trigger (assuming FRTO is enabled for that RTO).
The reason is that any non-retransmitted segment acknowledged will
set FLAG_ORIG_SACK_ACKED in tcp_clean_rtx_queue even if there is
no indication that it would have been delivered for real (the
scoreboard is not kept with TCPCB_SACKED_ACKED bits in the non-SACK
case so the check for that bit won't help like it does with SACK).
Having FLAG_ORIG_SACK_ACKED set results in the spurious FRTO undo
in tcp_process_loss.

We need to use more strict condition for non-SACK case and check
that none of the cumulatively ACKed segments were retransmitted
to prove that progress is due to original transmissions. Only then
keep FLAG_ORIG_SACK_ACKED set, allowing FRTO undo to proceed in
non-SACK case.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 4a26c09..c60745c 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -3166,6 +3166,15 @@ static int tcp_clean_rtx_queue(struct sock *sk, u32 prior_fack,
 				pkts_acked = rexmit_acked + newdata_acked;

 			tcp_remove_reno_sacks(sk, pkts_acked);
+
+			/* If any of the cumulatively ACKed segments was
+			 * retransmitted, non-SACK case cannot confirm that
+			 * progress was due to original transmission due to
+			 * lack of TCPCB_SACKED_ACKED bits even if some of
+			 * the packets may have been never retransmitted.
+			 */
+			if (flag & FLAG_RETRANS_DATA_ACKED)
+				flag &= ~FLAG_ORIG_SACK_ACKED;
 		} else {
 			int delta;

-- 
2.7.4