netdev - [PATCH net-next 2/2] tcp: do not increment BeyondWindow MIB for old seq

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Message-ID: <33f764b857dd28273784da12a3bac8dac039fbcb.1752859383.git.pabeni@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 19:25:13 +0200
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
	Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
	Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 2/2] tcp: do not increment BeyondWindow MIB for old seq

The mentioned MIB is currently incremented even when a packet
with an old sequence number (i.e. a zero window probe) is received,
which is IMHO misleading.

Explicitly restrict such MIB increment at the relevant events.

Fixes: 6c758062c64d ("tcp: add LINUX_MIB_BEYOND_WINDOW")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index c98de02a3c57..b708287df9b7 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -5911,7 +5911,11 @@ static bool tcp_validate_incoming(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 		if (!th->rst) {
 			if (th->syn)
 				goto syn_challenge;
-			NET_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_BEYOND_WINDOW);
+
+			if (reason == SKB_DROP_REASON_TCP_INVALID_SEQUENCE ||
+			    reason == SKB_DROP_REASON_TCP_INVALID_END_SEQUENCE)
+				NET_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk),
+					      LINUX_MIB_BEYOND_WINDOW);
 			if (!tcp_oow_rate_limited(sock_net(sk), skb,
 						  LINUX_MIB_TCPACKSKIPPEDSEQ,
 						  &tp->last_oow_ack_time))
-- 
2.50.0