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authorYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>2014-05-30 15:25:59 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-06-02 16:50:49 -0700
commit0cfa5c07d6d1d7f8e710fc671c5ba1ce85e09fa4 (patch)
treea64c77549f5863019d69eb08d25b557ba6a6f5b1 /net/ipv4
parent2d7a85f4b06e9c27ff629f07a524c48074f07f81 (diff)
tcp: fix cwnd undo on DSACK in F-RTO
This bug is discovered by an recent F-RTO issue on tcpm list https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tcpm/current/msg08794.html The bug is that currently F-RTO does not use DSACK to undo cwnd in certain cases: upon receiving an ACK after the RTO retransmission in F-RTO, and the ACK has DSACK indicating the retransmission is spurious, the sender only calls tcp_try_undo_loss() if some never retransmisted data is sacked (FLAG_ORIG_DATA_SACKED). The correct behavior is to unconditionally call tcp_try_undo_loss so the DSACK information is used properly to undo the cwnd reduction. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp_input.c11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index d6b46eb2f94..3a26b3b23f1 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -2684,13 +2684,12 @@ static void tcp_process_loss(struct sock *sk, int flag, bool is_dupack)
bool recovered = !before(tp->snd_una, tp->high_seq);
if (tp->frto) { /* F-RTO RFC5682 sec 3.1 (sack enhanced version). */
- if (flag & FLAG_ORIG_SACK_ACKED) {
- /* Step 3.b. A timeout is spurious if not all data are
- * lost, i.e., never-retransmitted data are (s)acked.
- */
- tcp_try_undo_loss(sk, true);
+ /* Step 3.b. A timeout is spurious if not all data are
+ * lost, i.e., never-retransmitted data are (s)acked.
+ */
+ if (tcp_try_undo_loss(sk, flag & FLAG_ORIG_SACK_ACKED))
return;
- }
+
if (after(tp->snd_nxt, tp->high_seq) &&
(flag & FLAG_DATA_SACKED || is_dupack)) {
tp->frto = 0; /* Loss was real: 2nd part of step 3.a */