This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tcp: initialize icsk_ack.lrcvtime at session start time
to the 4.10-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-initialize-icsk_ack.lrcvtime-at-session-start-time.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Mon Mar 27 18:18:08 CEST 2017
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 08:10:21 -0700
Subject: tcp: initialize icsk_ack.lrcvtime at session start time
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 15bb7745e94a665caf42bfaabf0ce062845b533b ]
icsk_ack.lrcvtime has a 0 value at socket creation time.
tcpi_last_data_recv can have bogus value if no payload is ever received.
This patch initializes icsk_ack.lrcvtime for active sessions
in tcp_finish_connect(), and for passive sessions in
tcp_create_openreq_child()
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 2 +-
net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -5571,6 +5571,7 @@ void tcp_finish_connect(struct sock *sk,
struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk);
tcp_set_state(sk, TCP_ESTABLISHED);
+ icsk->icsk_ack.lrcvtime = tcp_time_stamp;
if (skb) {
icsk->icsk_af_ops->sk_rx_dst_set(sk, skb);
@@ -5789,7 +5790,6 @@ static int tcp_rcv_synsent_state_process
* to stand against the temptation 8) --ANK
*/
inet_csk_schedule_ack(sk);
- icsk->icsk_ack.lrcvtime = tcp_time_stamp;
tcp_enter_quickack_mode(sk);
inet_csk_reset_xmit_timer(sk, ICSK_TIME_DACK,
TCP_DELACK_MAX, TCP_RTO_MAX);
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c
@@ -466,6 +466,7 @@ struct sock *tcp_create_openreq_child(co
newtp->mdev_us = jiffies_to_usecs(TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT);
minmax_reset(&newtp->rtt_min, tcp_time_stamp, ~0U);
newicsk->icsk_rto = TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT;
+ newicsk->icsk_ack.lrcvtime = tcp_time_stamp;
newtp->packets_out = 0;
newtp->retrans_out = 0;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.10/ipv4-provide-stronger-user-input-validation-in-nl_fib_input.patch
queue-4.10/net-solve-a-napi-race.patch
queue-4.10/tcp-initialize-icsk_ack.lrcvtime-at-session-start-time.patch
queue-4.10/net-properly-release-sk_frag.page.patch