tcp: fix bogus RTT on special retransmission

RTT may be bogus with tall loss probe (TLP) when a packet
is retransmitted and latter (s)acked without TCPCB_SACKED_RETRANS flag.

For example, TLP calls __tcp_retransmit_skb() instead of
tcp_retransmit_skb(). The skb timestamps are updated but the sacked
flag is not marked with TCPCB_SACKED_RETRANS. As a result we'll
get bogus RTT in tcp_clean_rtx_queue() or in tcp_sacktag_one() on
spurious retransmission.

The fix is to apply the sticky flag TCP_EVER_RETRANS to enforce Karn's
check on RTT sampling. However this will disable F-RTO if timeout occurs
after TLP, by resetting undo_marker in tcp_enter_loss(). We relax this
check to only if any pending retransmists are still in-flight.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Yuchung Cheng
2014-02-28 16:42:26 -08:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent de39d7a4f3
commit c84a57113f
2 changed files with 10 additions and 4 deletions

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@@ -2337,6 +2337,7 @@ int __tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk);
unsigned int cur_mss;
int err;
/* Inconslusive MTU probe */
if (icsk->icsk_mtup.probe_size) {
@@ -2400,11 +2401,15 @@ int __tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
skb_headroom(skb) >= 0xFFFF)) {
struct sk_buff *nskb = __pskb_copy(skb, MAX_TCP_HEADER,
GFP_ATOMIC);
return nskb ? tcp_transmit_skb(sk, nskb, 0, GFP_ATOMIC) :
-ENOBUFS;
err = nskb ? tcp_transmit_skb(sk, nskb, 0, GFP_ATOMIC) :
-ENOBUFS;
} else {
return tcp_transmit_skb(sk, skb, 1, GFP_ATOMIC);
err = tcp_transmit_skb(sk, skb, 1, GFP_ATOMIC);
}
if (likely(!err))
TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->sacked |= TCPCB_EVER_RETRANS;
return err;
}
int tcp_retransmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)