This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tcp: fix incorrect undo caused by DSACK of TLP retransmit
to the 6.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
tcp-fix-incorrect-undo-caused-by-dsack-of-tlp-retran.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit f15a7324f90226993462fa3abef149e1aa332d6c
Author: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 3 13:12:46 2024 -0400
tcp: fix incorrect undo caused by DSACK of TLP retransmit
[ Upstream commit 0ec986ed7bab6801faed1440e8839dcc710331ff ]
Loss recovery undo_retrans bookkeeping had a long-standing bug where a
DSACK from a spurious TLP retransmit packet could cause an erroneous
undo of a fast recovery or RTO recovery that repaired a single
really-lost packet (in a sequence range outside that of the TLP
retransmit). Basically, because the loss recovery state machine didn't
account for the fact that it sent a TLP retransmit, the DSACK for the
TLP retransmit could erroneously be implicitly be interpreted as
corresponding to the normal fast recovery or RTO recovery retransmit
that plugged a real hole, thus resulting in an improper undo.
For example, consider the following buggy scenario where there is a
real packet loss but the congestion control response is improperly
undone because of this bug:
+ send packets P1, P2, P3, P4
+ P1 is really lost
+ send TLP retransmit of P4
+ receive SACK for original P2, P3, P4
+ enter fast recovery, fast-retransmit P1, increment undo_retrans to 1
+ receive DSACK for TLP P4, decrement undo_retrans to 0, undo (bug!)
+ receive cumulative ACK for P1-P4 (fast retransmit plugged real hole)
The fix: when we initialize undo machinery in tcp_init_undo(), if
there is a TLP retransmit in flight, then increment tp->undo_retrans
so that we make sure that we receive a DSACK corresponding to the TLP
retransmit, as well as DSACKs for all later normal retransmits, before
triggering a loss recovery undo. Note that we also have to move the
line that clears tp->tlp_high_seq for RTO recovery, so that upon RTO
we remember the tp->tlp_high_seq value until tcp_init_undo() and clear
it only afterward.
Also note that the bug dates back to the original 2013 TLP
implementation, commit 6ba8a3b19e76 ("tcp: Tail loss probe (TLP)").
However, this patch will only compile and work correctly with kernels
that have tp->tlp_retrans, which was added only in v5.8 in 2020 in
commit 76be93fc0702 ("tcp: allow at most one TLP probe per flight").
So we associate this fix with that later commit.
Fixes: 76be93fc0702 ("tcp: allow at most one TLP probe per flight")
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kevin Yang <yyd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240703171246.1739561-1-ncardwell.sw@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 7b692bcb61d4a..c765d479869dc 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -2126,8 +2126,16 @@ void tcp_clear_retrans(struct tcp_sock *tp)
static inline void tcp_init_undo(struct tcp_sock *tp)
{
tp->undo_marker = tp->snd_una;
+
/* Retransmission still in flight may cause DSACKs later. */
- tp->undo_retrans = tp->retrans_out ? : -1;
+ /* First, account for regular retransmits in flight: */
+ tp->undo_retrans = tp->retrans_out;
+ /* Next, account for TLP retransmits in flight: */
+ if (tp->tlp_high_seq && tp->tlp_retrans)
+ tp->undo_retrans++;
+ /* Finally, avoid 0, because undo_retrans==0 means "can undo now": */
+ if (!tp->undo_retrans)
+ tp->undo_retrans = -1;
}
static bool tcp_is_rack(const struct sock *sk)
@@ -2206,6 +2214,7 @@ void tcp_enter_loss(struct sock *sk)
tcp_set_ca_state(sk, TCP_CA_Loss);
tp->high_seq = tp->snd_nxt;
+ tp->tlp_high_seq = 0;
tcp_ecn_queue_cwr(tp);
/* F-RTO RFC5682 sec 3.1 step 1: retransmit SND.UNA if no previous
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
index f96f68cf7961c..22d25f63858b9 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
@@ -534,8 +534,6 @@ void tcp_retransmit_timer(struct sock *sk)
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!skb))
return;
- tp->tlp_high_seq = 0;
-
if (!tp->snd_wnd && !sock_flag(sk, SOCK_DEAD) &&
!((1 << sk->sk_state) & (TCPF_SYN_SENT | TCPF_SYN_RECV))) {
/* Receiver dastardly shrinks window. Our retransmits
