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| author | Neal Cardwell | 2024-06-26 22:42:27 -0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller | 2024-06-28 10:28:14 +0100 |
| commit | a6458ab7fd4f427d4f6f54380453ad255b7fde83 (patch) | |
| tree | e07c2fa76d079b96ef7212aa218cf0d5d50db00b /net/ipv4 | |
| parent | d3dcb084c70727be4a2f61bd94796e66147cfa35 (diff) | |
UPSTREAM: tcp: fix DSACK undo in fast recovery to call tcp_try_to_open()
In some production workloads we noticed that connections could
sometimes close extremely prematurely with ETIMEDOUT after
transmitting only 1 TLP and RTO retransmission (when we would normally
expect roughly tcp_retries2 = TCP_RETR2 = 15 RTOs before a connection
closes with ETIMEDOUT).
From tracing we determined that these workloads can suffer from a
scenario where in fast recovery, after some retransmits, a DSACK undo
can happen at a point where the scoreboard is totally clear (we have
retrans_out == sacked_out == lost_out == 0). In such cases, calling
tcp_try_keep_open() means that we do not execute any code path that
clears tp->retrans_stamp to 0. That means that tp->retrans_stamp can
remain erroneously set to the start time of the undone fast recovery,
even after the fast recovery is undone. If minutes or hours elapse,
and then a TLP/RTO/RTO sequence occurs, then the start_ts value in
retransmits_timed_out() (which is from tp->retrans_stamp) will be
erroneously ancient (left over from the fast recovery undone via
DSACKs). Thus this ancient tp->retrans_stamp value can cause the
connection to die very prematurely with ETIMEDOUT via
tcp_write_err().
The fix: we change DSACK undo in fast recovery (TCP_CA_Recovery) to
call tcp_try_to_open() instead of tcp_try_keep_open(). This ensures
that if no retransmits are in flight at the time of DSACK undo in fast
recovery then we properly zero retrans_stamp. Note that calling
tcp_try_to_open() is more consistent with other loss recovery
behavior, since normal fast recovery (CA_Recovery) and RTO recovery
(CA_Loss) both normally end when tp->snd_una meets or exceeds
tp->high_seq and then in tcp_fastretrans_alert() the "default" switch
case executes tcp_try_to_open(). Also note that by inspection this
change to call tcp_try_to_open() implies at least one other nice bug
fix, where now an ECE-marked DSACK that causes an undo will properly
invoke tcp_enter_cwr() rather than ignoring the ECE mark.
Fixes: c7d9d6a185a7 ("tcp: undo on DSACK during recovery")
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c index 2e39cb881e20..e67cbeeeb95b 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c @@ -3077,7 +3077,7 @@ static void tcp_fastretrans_alert(struct sock *sk, const u32 prior_snd_una, return; if (tcp_try_undo_dsack(sk)) - tcp_try_keep_open(sk); + tcp_try_to_open(sk, flag); tcp_identify_packet_loss(sk, ack_flag); if (icsk->icsk_ca_state != TCP_CA_Recovery) { |