netdev - Re: [PATCH net 2/4] tcp: tcp_fragment() should apply sane memory limits

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Date:   Mon, 17 Jun 2019 19:28:01 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@...il.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jonathan Looney <jtl@...flix.com>,
        Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
        Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@...onical.com>,
        Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
        Bruce Curtis <brucec@...flix.com>,
        Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@...il.com>,
        Dustin Marquess <dmarquess@...le.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/4] tcp: tcp_fragment() should apply sane memory
 limits



On 6/17/19 5:18 PM, Christoph Paasch wrote:
> 
> Hi Eric, I now have a packetdrill test that started failing (see
> below). Admittedly, a bit weird test with the SO_SNDBUF forced so low.
> 
> Nevertheless, previously this test would pass, now it stalls after the
> write() because tcp_fragment() returns -ENOMEM. Your commit-message
> mentions that this could trigger when one sets SO_SNDBUF low. But,
> here we have a complete stall of the connection and we never recover.
> 
> I don't know if we care about this, but there it is :-)

I guess it is WAI :)

Honestly I am not sure we want to add code just to allow these degenerated use cases.

Upstream kernels could check if rtx queue is empty or not, but this check will be not trivial to backport


Can you test :

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index 00c01a01b547ec67c971dc25a74c9258563cf871..06576540133806222f43d4a9532c5a929a2965b0 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -1296,7 +1296,8 @@ int tcp_fragment(struct sock *sk, enum tcp_queue tcp_queue,
        if (nsize < 0)
                nsize = 0;
 
-       if (unlikely((sk->sk_wmem_queued >> 1) > sk->sk_sndbuf)) {
+       if (unlikely((sk->sk_wmem_queued >> 1) > sk->sk_sndbuf &&
+                    !tcp_rtx_queue_empty(sk))) {
                NET_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPWQUEUETOOBIG);
                return -ENOMEM;
        }