This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tcp: invalidate rate samples during SACK reneging to the 4.14-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-invalidate-rate-samples-during-sack-reneging.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 Sun Dec 31 11:12:48 CET 2017 From: Yousuk Seung <ysseung@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 13:41:34 -0800 Subject: tcp: invalidate rate samples during SACK reneging From: Yousuk Seung <ysseung@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit d4761754b4fb2ef8d9a1e9d121c4bec84e1fe292 ] Mark tcp_sock during a SACK reneging event and invalidate rate samples while marked. Such rate samples may overestimate bw by including packets that were SACKed before reneging. < ack 6001 win 10000 sack 7001:38001 < ack 7001 win 0 sack 8001:38001 // Reneg detected > seq 7001:8001 // RTO, SACK cleared. < ack 38001 win 10000 In above example the rate sample taken after the last ack will count 7001-38001 as delivered while the actual delivery rate likely could be much lower i.e. 7001-8001. This patch adds a new field tcp_sock.sack_reneg and marks it when we declare SACK reneging and entering TCP_CA_Loss, and unmarks it after the last rate sample was taken before moving back to TCP_CA_Open. This patch also invalidates rate samples taken while tcp_sock.is_sack_reneg is set. Fixes: b9f64820fb22 ("tcp: track data delivery rate for a TCP connection") Signed-off-by: Yousuk Seung <ysseung@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Priyaranjan Jha <priyarjha@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/tcp.h | 3 ++- include/net/tcp.h | 2 +- net/ipv4/tcp.c | 1 + net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 10 ++++++++-- net/ipv4/tcp_rate.c | 10 +++++++--- 5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/tcp.h +++ b/include/linux/tcp.h @@ -214,7 +214,8 @@ struct tcp_sock { u8 chrono_type:2, /* current chronograph type */ rate_app_limited:1, /* rate_{delivered,interval_us} limited? */ fastopen_connect:1, /* FASTOPEN_CONNECT sockopt */ - unused:4; + is_sack_reneg:1, /* in recovery from loss with SACK reneg? */ + unused:3; u8 nonagle : 4,/* Disable Nagle algorithm? */ thin_lto : 1,/* Use linear timeouts for thin streams */ unused1 : 1, --- a/include/net/tcp.h +++ b/include/net/tcp.h @@ -1085,7 +1085,7 @@ void tcp_rate_skb_sent(struct sock *sk, void tcp_rate_skb_delivered(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, struct rate_sample *rs); void tcp_rate_gen(struct sock *sk, u32 delivered, u32 lost, - struct rate_sample *rs); + bool is_sack_reneg, struct rate_sample *rs); void tcp_rate_check_app_limited(struct sock *sk); /* These functions determine how the current flow behaves in respect of SACK --- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c @@ -2356,6 +2356,7 @@ int tcp_disconnect(struct sock *sk, int tp->snd_cwnd_cnt = 0; tp->window_clamp = 0; tcp_set_ca_state(sk, TCP_CA_Open); + tp->is_sack_reneg = 0; tcp_clear_retrans(tp); inet_csk_delack_init(sk); /* Initialize rcv_mss to TCP_MIN_MSS to avoid division by 0 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c @@ -1975,6 +1975,8 @@ void tcp_enter_loss(struct sock *sk) NET_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPSACKRENEGING); tp->sacked_out = 0; tp->fackets_out = 0; + /* Mark SACK reneging until we recover from this loss event. */ + tp->is_sack_reneg = 1; } tcp_clear_all_retrans_hints(tp); @@ -2428,6 +2430,7 @@ static bool tcp_try_undo_recovery(struct return true; } tcp_set_ca_state(sk, TCP_CA_Open); + tp->is_sack_reneg = 0; return false; } @@ -2459,8 +2462,10 @@ static bool tcp_try_undo_loss(struct soc NET_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPSPURIOUSRTOS); inet_csk(sk)->icsk_retransmits = 0; - if (frto_undo || tcp_is_sack(tp)) + if (frto_undo || tcp_is_sack(tp)) { tcp_set_ca_state(sk, TCP_CA_Open); + tp->is_sack_reneg = 0; + } return true; } return false; @@ -3551,6 +3556,7 @@ static int tcp_ack(struct sock *sk, cons struct tcp_sacktag_state sack_state; struct rate_sample rs = { .prior_delivered = 0 }; u32 prior_snd_una = tp->snd_una; + bool is_sack_reneg = tp->is_sack_reneg; u32 ack_seq = TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq; u32 ack = TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->ack_seq; bool is_dupack = false; @@ -3666,7 +3672,7 @@ static int tcp_ack(struct sock *sk, cons delivered = tp->delivered - delivered; /* freshly ACKed or SACKed */ lost = tp->lost - lost; /* freshly marked lost */ - tcp_rate_gen(sk, delivered, lost, sack_state.rate); + tcp_rate_gen(sk, delivered, lost, is_sack_reneg, sack_state.rate); tcp_cong_control(sk, ack, delivered, flag, sack_state.rate); tcp_xmit_recovery(sk, rexmit); return 1; --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_rate.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_rate.c @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ void tcp_rate_skb_delivered(struct sock /* Update the connection delivery information and generate a rate sample. */ void tcp_rate_gen(struct sock *sk, u32 delivered, u32 lost, - struct rate_sample *rs) + bool is_sack_reneg, struct rate_sample *rs) { struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk); u32 snd_us, ack_us; @@ -124,8 +124,12 @@ void tcp_rate_gen(struct sock *sk, u32 d rs->acked_sacked = delivered; /* freshly ACKed or SACKed */ rs->losses = lost; /* freshly marked lost */ - /* Return an invalid sample if no timing information is available. */ - if (!rs->prior_mstamp) { + /* Return an invalid sample if no timing information is available or + * in recovery from loss with SACK reneging. Rate samples taken during + * a SACK reneging event may overestimate bw by including packets that + * were SACKed before the reneg. + */ + if (!rs->prior_mstamp || is_sack_reneg) { rs->delivered = -1; rs->interval_us = -1; return; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ysseung@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/tcp-invalidate-rate-samples-during-sack-reneging.patch