netdev - [PATCH net] tcp: adjust rto_base in retransmits_timed

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Message-Id: <20190930224444.77901-1-edumazet@google.com>
Date:   Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:44:44 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
        Marek Majkowski <marek@...udflare.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] tcp: adjust rto_base in retransmits_timed_out()

The cited commit exposed an old retransmits_timed_out() bug
which assumed it could call tcp_model_timeout() with
TCP_RTO_MIN as rto_base for all states.

But flows in SYN_SENT or SYN_RECV state uses a different
RTO base (1 sec instead of 200 ms, unless BPF choses
another value)

This caused a reduction of SYN retransmits from 6 to 4 with
the default /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syn_retries value.

Fixes: a41e8a88b06e ("tcp: better handle TCP_USER_TIMEOUT in SYN_SENT state")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Cc: Marek Majkowski <marek@...udflare.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
index 40de2d2364a1eca14c259d77ebed361d17829eb9..05be564414e9b4aad64321e381fc0afa10980190 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
@@ -198,8 +198,13 @@ static bool retransmits_timed_out(struct sock *sk,
 		return false;
 
 	start_ts = tcp_sk(sk)->retrans_stamp;
-	if (likely(timeout == 0))
-		timeout = tcp_model_timeout(sk, boundary, TCP_RTO_MIN);
+	if (likely(timeout == 0)) {
+		unsigned int rto_base = TCP_RTO_MIN;
+
+		if ((1 << sk->sk_state) & (TCPF_SYN_SENT | TCPF_SYN_RECV))
+			rto_base = tcp_timeout_init(sk);
+		timeout = tcp_model_timeout(sk, boundary, rto_base);
+	}
 
 	return (s32)(tcp_time_stamp(tcp_sk(sk)) - start_ts - timeout) >= 0;
 }
-- 
2.23.0.444.g18eeb5a265-goog