dccp: Special case of the MPS for client-PARTOPEN with DataAcks

To increase robustness, it is necessary to resend Confirm feature-negotiation
options, even though the RFC does not mandate it. But feature negotiation
options can take (much) more room than the options on common DataAck packets.

Instead of reducing the MPS always for a case which only applies to the three
messages send during initial handshake, this patch devises a special case:

   if the payload length of the DataAck in PARTOPEN is too large, an Ack is sent
   to carry the options, and the feature-negotiation list is then flushed.

   This means that the server gets two Acks for one Response. If both Acks get
   lost, it is probably better to restart the connection anyway and devising yet
   another special-case does not seem worth the extra complexity.

The patch (over-)estimates the expected overhead to be 32*4 bytes -- commonly
seen values were 20-90 bytes for initial feature-negotiation options.

It uses sizeof(u32) to mean "aligned units of 4 bytes". For consistency,
another use of sizeof is modified.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>

diff --git a/net/dccp/dccp.h b/net/dccp/dccp.h
index 0a07b2e..c7370de 100644 (file)
--- a/net/dccp/dccp.h
+++ b/net/dccp/dccp.h
@@ -63,11 +63,14 @@ extern void dccp_time_wait(struct sock *sk, int state, int timeo);
  *    - DCCP-Reset    with ACK Subheader and 4 bytes of Reset Code fields
  *  Hence a safe upper bound for the maximum option length is 1020-28 = 992
  */
-#define MAX_DCCP_SPECIFIC_HEADER (255 * sizeof(int))
+#define MAX_DCCP_SPECIFIC_HEADER (255 * sizeof(uint32_t))
 #define DCCP_MAX_PACKET_HDR 28
 #define DCCP_MAX_OPT_LEN (MAX_DCCP_SPECIFIC_HEADER - DCCP_MAX_PACKET_HDR)
 #define MAX_DCCP_HEADER (MAX_DCCP_SPECIFIC_HEADER + MAX_HEADER)
 
+/* Upper bound for initial feature-negotiation overhead (padded to 32 bits) */
+#define DCCP_FEATNEG_OVERHEAD   (32 * sizeof(uint32_t))
+
 #define DCCP_TIMEWAIT_LEN (60 * HZ) /* how long to wait to destroy TIME-WAIT
                                     * state, about 60 seconds */
 

diff --git a/net/dccp/output.c b/net/dccp/output.c
index 0aab919..9888f61 100644 (file)
--- a/net/dccp/output.c
+++ b/net/dccp/output.c
@@ -276,7 +276,20 @@ void dccp_write_xmit(struct sock *sk, int block)
                        const int len = skb->len;
 
                        if (sk->sk_state == DCCP_PARTOPEN) {
-                               /* See 8.1.5.  Handshake Completion */
+                               const u32 cur_mps = dp->dccps_mss_cache - DCCP_FEATNEG_OVERHEAD;
+                               /*
+                                * See 8.1.5 - Handshake Completion.
+                                *
+                                * For robustness we resend Confirm options until the client has
+                                * entered OPEN. During the initial feature negotiation, the MPS
+                                * is smaller than usual, reduced by the Change/Confirm options.
+                                */
+                               if (!list_empty(&dp->dccps_featneg) && len > cur_mps) {
+                                       DCCP_WARN("Payload too large (%d) for featneg.\n", len);
+                                       dccp_send_ack(sk);
+                                       dccp_feat_list_purge(&dp->dccps_featneg);
+                               }
+
                                inet_csk_schedule_ack(sk);
                                inet_csk_reset_xmit_timer(sk, ICSK_TIME_DACK,
                                                  inet_csk(sk)->icsk_rto,