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Neal Cardwell 397c1faf8f tcp: fix tcp_packet_delayed() for tcp_is_non_sack_preventing_reopen() behavior 
[ Upstream commit d0fa59897e ]

After the following commit from 2024:

commit e37ab73736 ("tcp: fix to allow timestamp undo if no retransmits were sent")

...there was buggy behavior where TCP connections without SACK support
could easily see erroneous undo events at the end of fast recovery or
RTO recovery episodes. The erroneous undo events could cause those
connections to suffer repeated loss recovery episodes and high
retransmit rates.

The problem was an interaction between the non-SACK behavior on these
connections and the undo logic. The problem is that, for non-SACK
connections at the end of a loss recovery episode, if snd_una ==
high_seq, then tcp_is_non_sack_preventing_reopen() holds steady in
CA_Recovery or CA_Loss, but clears tp->retrans_stamp to 0. Then upon
the next ACK the "tcp: fix to allow timestamp undo if no retransmits
were sent" logic saw the tp->retrans_stamp at 0 and erroneously
concluded that no data was retransmitted, and erroneously performed an
undo of the cwnd reduction, restoring cwnd immediately to the value it
had before loss recovery.  This caused an immediate burst of traffic
and build-up of queues and likely another immediate loss recovery
episode.

This commit fixes tcp_packet_delayed() to ignore zero retrans_stamp
values for non-SACK connections when snd_una is at or above high_seq,
because tcp_is_non_sack_preventing_reopen() clears retrans_stamp in
this case, so it's not a valid signal that we can undo.

Note that the commit named in the Fixes footer restored long-present
behavior from roughly 2005-2019, so apparently this bug was present
for a while during that era, and this was simply not caught.

Fixes: e37ab73736 ("tcp: fix to allow timestamp undo if no retransmits were sent")
Reported-by: Eric Wheeler <netdev@lists.ewheeler.net>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/64ea9333-e7f9-0df-b0f2-8d566143acab@ewheeler.net/
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Co-developed-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2025-06-27 11:11:43 +01:00
arch x86/tools: Drop duplicate unlikely() definition in insn_decoder_test.c 2025-06-27 11:11:41 +01:00
block block: Clear BIO_EMULATES_ZONE_APPEND flag on BIO completion 2025-06-27 11:11:19 +01:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: api - Redo lookup on EEXIST 2025-06-19 15:31:30 +02:00
Documentation kbuild: rust: add rustc-min-version support function 2025-06-27 11:11:40 +01:00
drivers atm: atmtcp: Free invalid length skb in atmtcp_c_send(). 2025-06-27 11:11:43 +01:00
fs ksmbd: add free_transport ops in ksmbd connection 2025-06-27 11:11:42 +01:00
include ipv6: replace ipcm6_init calls with ipcm6_init_sk 2025-06-27 11:11:41 +01:00
init rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's unnecessary_transmutes lint 2025-05-18 08:24:51 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/sqpoll: don't put task_struct on tctx setup failure 2025-06-27 11:11:42 +01:00
ipc ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU 2025-06-27 11:11:22 +01:00
kernel workqueue: Initialize wq_isolated_cpumask in workqueue_init_early() 2025-06-27 11:11:42 +01:00
lib pldmfw: Select CRC32 when PLDMFW is selected 2025-06-27 11:11:42 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm mm/hugetlb: unshare page tables during VMA split, not before 2025-06-27 11:11:40 +01:00
net tcp: fix tcp_packet_delayed() for tcp_is_non_sack_preventing_reopen() behavior 2025-06-27 11:11:43 +01:00
rust rust: compile libcore with edition 2024 for 1.87+ 2025-06-27 11:11:40 +01:00
samples samples/bpf: Fix compilation failure for samples/bpf on LoongArch Fedora 2025-05-29 11:02:01 +02:00
scripts rust: compile libcore with edition 2024 for 1.87+ 2025-06-27 11:11:40 +01:00
security selinux: fix selinux_xfrm_alloc_user() to set correct ctx_len 2025-06-27 11:11:38 +01:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirk for Asus GU605C 2025-06-27 11:11:40 +01:00
tools bpf: Fix L4 csum update on IPv6 in CHECKSUM_COMPLETE 2025-06-27 11:11:40 +01:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-03-13 13:02:18 +01:00
virt KVM: Add member to struct kvm_gfn_range to indicate private/shared 2025-05-22 14:29:36 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-18 08:24:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore rust: introduce .clippy.toml 2025-03-13 13:01:42 +01:00
.mailmap mailmap: add entry for Thorsten Blum 2024-11-07 14:14:59 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove self from DSA entry 2024-11-03 12:52:38 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update Alexey Makhalov's email address 2025-05-22 14:29:46 +02:00
Makefile Linux 6.12.34 2025-06-19 15:32:38 +02:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.