Currently sk_rethink_txhash() re-rolls the socket's txhash on RTO, PLB,
and spurious-retransmission events, but the cached route is reused and
the new hash is not propagated into the ECMP path selection logic. Two
changes are needed to make rehash select a different local ECMP path:
1. Add __sk_dst_reset() alongside sk_rethink_txhash() in
tcp_write_timeout(), tcp_rcv_spurious_retrans(), and
tcp_plb_check_rehash() so the cached dst is invalidated and the
next transmit triggers a fresh route lookup.
2. Set fl6->mp_hash from sk_txhash (or tcp_rsk(req)->txhash for
SYN/ACK retransmits and syncookies) in tcp_v6_connect(),
inet6_sk_rebuild_header(), inet6_csk_route_req(),
inet6_csk_route_socket(), tcp_v6_send_response(), and
cookie_v6_check() so fib6_select_path() picks a path based on the
new hash.
The mp_hash override only applies to fib_multipath_hash_policy 0 (the
default L3 policy). Its hash includes the flow label, but that is 0 by
default -- np->flow_label is unset, and auto_flowlabels only computes
the on-wire label later, per packet -- so flows to the same peer share
one local path. Keying the hash on sk_txhash makes the local path
per-connection and lets a rehash re-select it. Policies 1-3 are left
unchanged.
The mp_hash assignment is factored into a small helper,
ip6_ecmp_set_mp_hash(), shared by inet6_csk_route_req(),
inet6_csk_route_socket(), tcp_v6_connect(), inet6_sk_rebuild_header(),
tcp_v6_send_response(), and cookie_v6_check(). It applies
(txhash >> 1) ?: 1 for policy 0 (the >> 1 keeps mp_hash in the 31-bit
range; ?: 1 keeps it non-zero, since 0 would fall back to
rt6_multipath_hash()). inet6_csk_route_socket() calls it only for
sk_protocol == IPPROTO_TCP so that non-TCP callers (e.g., L2TP via
inet6_csk_xmit) fall through to rt6_multipath_hash() and retain their
existing flow-key-based ECMP behavior.
tcp_v6_send_response() also sets mp_hash from the response txhash so
that a control packet (a RST from the full socket, or an ACK from a
time-wait socket) selects the same local ECMP nexthop as the
connection's txhash rather than falling back to the flow hash. The
time-wait socket's tw_txhash is copied from sk_txhash when the
connection enters TIME_WAIT, so it reflects any rehash that occurred.
Setting mp_hash explicitly is necessary because the default ECMP hash
derives from fl6->flowlabel via np->flow_label, which is not updated
from sk_txhash (REPFLOW is off by default). ip6_make_flowlabel()
cannot help either, as it runs after the route lookup.
As a consequence, for policy 0 the local ECMP path of an IPv6 TCP
flow follows sk_txhash even when fl6->flowlabel is non-zero, e.g. a
reflected (REPFLOW) or explicitly set (IPV6_FLOWLABEL_MGR) flow
label. This is intentional: only local path selection changes, so
rehash can recover from a failed path; the on-wire flow label is
unchanged.
sk_set_txhash() is moved before ip6_dst_lookup_flow() in
tcp_v6_connect() so the initial ECMP path is selected by the same
txhash that subsequent route rebuilds will use. This avoids
unintended path changes when the cached dst is naturally invalidated
(e.g., by PMTU discovery or route changes).
The rehash sites (tcp_write_timeout(), tcp_plb_check_rehash(), and
tcp_rcv_spurious_retrans()) call __sk_rethink_txhash_reset_dst(),
which re-rolls the txhash and, when it changed, drops the cached dst
so the next transmit re-runs route selection. The dst reset is
guarded by sk->sk_family == AF_INET6 since IPv4 ECMP does not
currently use sk_txhash for path selection. For IPv4-mapped IPv6
sockets this produces a redundant dst reset on a cold path
(RTO/PLB); the subsequent IPv4 route lookup returns the same result.
The helper is deliberately separate from sk_rethink_txhash() itself:
dst_negative_advice() calls sk_rethink_txhash() before its own dst op,
so resetting the dst inside sk_rethink_txhash() would skip that op
(e.g. rt6_remove_exception_rt()).
For syncookies, cookie_init_sequence() computes the cookie value
before route_req() and sets txhash so the SYN-ACK selects the same
ECMP path that cookie_v6_check() will use when the full socket is
created. cookie_tcp_reqsk_init() derives txhash from the cookie so
the full socket's ECMP path matches the SYN-ACK. Both the SYN-ACK
assignment in tcp_conn_request() and the full-socket assignment in
cookie_tcp_reqsk_init() set txhash from the cookie for IPv4 and IPv6
alike. On IPv6 this drives ECMP path selection; on IPv4, which does
not use sk_txhash for ECMP, it only affects TX-queue selection. That
selection scales the hash by its high bits (reciprocal_scale()), which
are uniform in the keyed secure_tcp_syn_cookie() output -- the MSS index
only perturbs the low bits -- so the queue distribution matches
net_tx_rndhash().
cookie_init_sequence() is split from the former version that also
called tcp_synq_overflow() and incremented SYNCOOKIESSENT; those
side effects are now in cookie_record_sent(), called after
route_req() succeeds so they are not bumped when route_req() fails.
cookie_record_sent() is guarded by CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES to
match the guard on tcp_synq_overflow(). route_req() receives 0 as
tw_isn for the syncookie path so that tcp_v6_init_req() still saves
ireq->pktopts for REPFLOW flowlabel reflection and IPv6 cmsg
options. The ecn_ok clear for syncookies without timestamps stays
after tcp_ecn_create_request() so it takes precedence.
Signed-off-by: Neil Spring <ntspring@meta.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260615042158.1600746-2-ntspring@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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