Re: [PATCH v7 bpf-next 06/11] tcp: Migrate TCP_NEW_SYN_RECV requests at retransmitting SYN+ACKs.

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Thu Jun 10 2021 - 16:22:23 EST




On 5/21/21 8:20 PM, Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> As with the preceding patch, this patch changes reqsk_timer_handler() to
> call reuseport_migrate_sock() and inet_reqsk_clone() to migrate in-flight
> requests at retransmitting SYN+ACKs. If we can select a new listener and
> clone the request, we resume setting the SYN+ACK timer for the new req. If
> we can set the timer, we call inet_ehash_insert() to unhash the old req and
> put the new req into ehash.
>

...

> static void reqsk_migrate_reset(struct request_sock *req)
> {
> + req->saved_syn = NULL;
> + inet_rsk(req)->ireq_opt = NULL;
> #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
> - inet_rsk(req)->ipv6_opt = NULL;
> + inet_rsk(req)->pktopts = NULL;
> #endif
> }

This is fragile.

Maybe instead :

#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
inet_rsk(req)->ipv6_opt = NULL;
inet_rsk(req)->pktopts = NULL;
#else
inet_rsk(req)->ireq_opt = NULL;
#endif