[PATCH 4.19 016/211] tcp: better handle TCP_USER_TIMEOUT in SYN_SENT state

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Oct 03 2019 - 12:15:10 EST


From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit a66b10c05ee2d744189e9a2130394b070883d289 ]

Yuchung Cheng and Marek Majkowski independently reported a weird
behavior of TCP_USER_TIMEOUT option when used at connect() time.

When the TCP_USER_TIMEOUT is reached, tcp_write_timeout()
believes the flow should live, and the following condition
in tcp_clamp_rto_to_user_timeout() programs one jiffie timers :

remaining = icsk->icsk_user_timeout - elapsed;
if (remaining <= 0)
return 1; /* user timeout has passed; fire ASAP */

This silly situation ends when the max syn rtx count is reached.

This patch makes sure we honor both TCP_SYNCNT and TCP_USER_TIMEOUT,
avoiding these spurious SYN packets.

Fixes: b701a99e431d ("tcp: Add tcp_clamp_rto_to_user_timeout() helper to improve accuracy")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Marek Majkowski <marek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jon Maxwell <jmaxwell37@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=156940118307949&w=2
Acked-by: Jon Maxwell <jmaxwell37@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Marek Majkowski <marek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Marek Majkowski <marek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static int tcp_write_timeout(struct sock
struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk);
struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
struct net *net = sock_net(sk);
- bool expired, do_reset;
+ bool expired = false, do_reset;
int retry_until;

if ((1 << sk->sk_state) & (TCPF_SYN_SENT | TCPF_SYN_RECV)) {
@@ -251,9 +251,10 @@ static int tcp_write_timeout(struct sock
if (tcp_out_of_resources(sk, do_reset))
return 1;
}
+ }
+ if (!expired)
expired = retransmits_timed_out(sk, retry_until,
icsk->icsk_user_timeout);
- }
tcp_fastopen_active_detect_blackhole(sk, expired);

if (BPF_SOCK_OPS_TEST_FLAG(tp, BPF_SOCK_OPS_RTO_CB_FLAG))