netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v5] tcp: enforce receive buffer memory limits by allowing the tcp window to shrink

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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 20:49:09 +0200
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To: Mike Freemon <mfreemon@...udflare.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...udflare.com, ncardwell@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5] tcp: enforce receive buffer memory limits by
 allowing the tcp window to shrink

On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 5:05 AM Mike Freemon <mfreemon@...udflare.com> wrote:
>
> From: "mfreemon@...udflare.com" <mfreemon@...udflare.com>
>
> Under certain circumstances, the tcp receive buffer memory limit
> set by autotuning (sk_rcvbuf) is increased due to incoming data
> packets as a result of the window not closing when it should be.
> This can result in the receive buffer growing all the way up to
> tcp_rmem[2], even for tcp sessions with a low BDP.
>
> To reproduce:  Connect a TCP session with the receiver doing
> nothing and the sender sending small packets (an infinite loop
> of socket send() with 4 bytes of payload with a sleep of 1 ms
> in between each send()).  This will cause the tcp receive buffer
> to grow all the way up to tcp_rmem[2].
>
> [1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7323#appendix-F
> [2] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7323#section-2.4
> [3] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1122#page-91
> [4] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc793
> [5] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1323
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Freemon <mfreemon@...udflare.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>