From: Per Hurtig <per.hurtig@xxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== [ Upstream commit bef1909ee3ed1ca39231b260a8d3b4544ecd0c8f ] Fix to a problem observed when losing a FIN segment that does not contain data. In such situations, TLP is unable to recover from *any* tail loss and instead adds at least PTO ms to the retransmission process, i.e., RTO = RTO + PTO. Signed-off-by: Per Hurtig <per.hurtig@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c index 1c753c5f9de7..4c0e55f14f2e 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c @@ -2045,9 +2045,7 @@ void tcp_send_loss_probe(struct sock *sk) if (WARN_ON(!skb || !tcp_skb_pcount(skb))) goto rearm_timer; - /* Probe with zero data doesn't trigger fast recovery. */ - if (skb->len > 0) - err = __tcp_retransmit_skb(sk, skb); + err = __tcp_retransmit_skb(sk, skb); /* Record snd_nxt for loss detection. */ if (likely(!err)) -- 2.1.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html