From 598856407d4e20ebb4de01a91a93d89325924d43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Damian Lukowski Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:04:08 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] tcp: fix ICMP-RTO war Make sure, that TCP has a nonzero RTT estimation after three-way handshake. Currently, a listening TCP has a value of 0 for srtt, rttvar and rto right after the three-way handshake is completed with TCP timestamps disabled. This will lead to corrupt RTO recalculation and retransmission flood when RTO is recalculated on backoff reversion as introduced in "Revert RTO on ICMP destination unreachable" (f1ecd5d9e7366609d640ff4040304ea197fbc618). This behaviour can be provoked by connecting to a server which "responds first" (like SMTP) and rejecting every packet after the handshake with dest-unreachable, which will lead to softirq load on the server (up to 30% per socket in some tests). Thanks to Ilpo Jarvinen for providing debug patches and to Denys Fedoryshchenko for reporting and testing. Changes since v3: Removed bad characters in patchfile. Reported-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko Signed-off-by: Damian Lukowski Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c index 28e0296..3fddc69 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c @@ -5783,11 +5783,9 @@ int tcp_rcv_state_process(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, /* tcp_ack considers this ACK as duplicate * and does not calculate rtt. - * Fix it at least with timestamps. + * Force it here. */ - if (tp->rx_opt.saw_tstamp && - tp->rx_opt.rcv_tsecr && !tp->srtt) - tcp_ack_saw_tstamp(sk, 0); + tcp_ack_update_rtt(sk, 0, 0); if (tp->rx_opt.tstamp_ok) tp->advmss -= TCPOLEN_TSTAMP_ALIGNED; -- 1.8.2.3