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<entry>
<title>tcp: add max_quickacks param to tcp_incr_quickack and tcp_enter_quickack_mode</title>
<updated>2018-08-03T05:50:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-21T22:08:56+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9a9c9b51e54618861420093ae6e9b50a961914c5 ]

We want to add finer control of the number of ACK packets sent after
ECN events.

This patch is not changing current behavior, it only enables following
change.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh &lt;soheil@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: do not delay ACK in DCTCP upon CE status change</title>
<updated>2018-07-28T05:55:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuchung Cheng</name>
<email>ycheng@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-18T20:56:36+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a0496ef2c23b3b180902dd185d0d63ccbc624cf8 ]

Per DCTCP RFC8257 (Section 3.2) the ACK reflecting the CE status change
has to be sent immediately so the sender can respond quickly:

""" When receiving packets, the CE codepoint MUST be processed as follows:

   1.  If the CE codepoint is set and DCTCP.CE is false, set DCTCP.CE to
       true and send an immediate ACK.

   2.  If the CE codepoint is not set and DCTCP.CE is true, set DCTCP.CE
       to false and send an immediate ACK.
"""

Previously DCTCP implementation may continue to delay the ACK. This
patch fixes that to implement the RFC by forcing an immediate ACK.

Tested with this packetdrill script provided by Larry Brakmo

0.000 socket(..., SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP) = 3
0.000 setsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0
0.000 setsockopt(3, SOL_TCP, TCP_CONGESTION, "dctcp", 5) = 0
0.000 bind(3, ..., ...) = 0
0.000 listen(3, 1) = 0

0.100 &lt; [ect0] SEW 0:0(0) win 32792 &lt;mss 1000,sackOK,nop,nop,nop,wscale 7&gt;
0.100 &gt; SE. 0:0(0) ack 1 &lt;mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale 8&gt;
0.110 &lt; [ect0] . 1:1(0) ack 1 win 257
0.200 accept(3, ..., ...) = 4
   +0 setsockopt(4, SOL_SOCKET, SO_DEBUG, [1], 4) = 0

0.200 &lt; [ect0] . 1:1001(1000) ack 1 win 257
0.200 &gt; [ect01] . 1:1(0) ack 1001

0.200 write(4, ..., 1) = 1
0.200 &gt; [ect01] P. 1:2(1) ack 1001

0.200 &lt; [ect0] . 1001:2001(1000) ack 2 win 257
+0.005 &lt; [ce] . 2001:3001(1000) ack 2 win 257

+0.000 &gt; [ect01] . 2:2(0) ack 2001
// Previously the ACK below would be delayed by 40ms
+0.000 &gt; [ect01] E. 2:2(0) ack 3001

+0.500 &lt; F. 9501:9501(0) ack 4 win 257

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: do not cancel delay-AcK on DCTCP special ACK</title>
<updated>2018-07-28T05:55:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuchung Cheng</name>
<email>ycheng@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-18T20:56:35+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 27cde44a259c380a3c09066fc4b42de7dde9b1ad ]

Currently when a DCTCP receiver delays an ACK and receive a
data packet with a different CE mark from the previous one's, it
sends two immediate ACKs acking previous and latest sequences
respectly (for ECN accounting).

Previously sending the first ACK may mark off the delayed ACK timer
(tcp_event_ack_sent). This may subsequently prevent sending the
second ACK to acknowledge the latest sequence (tcp_ack_snd_check).
The culprit is that tcp_send_ack() assumes it always acknowleges
the latest sequence, which is not true for the first special ACK.

The fix is to not make the assumption in tcp_send_ack and check the
actual ack sequence before cancelling the delayed ACK. Further it's
safer to pass the ack sequence number as a local variable into
tcp_send_ack routine, instead of intercepting tp-&gt;rcv_nxt to avoid
future bugs like this.

Reported-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net/ipv6: Fix linklocal to global address with VRF</title>
<updated>2018-07-28T05:55:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Ahern</name>
<email>dsahern@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-19T19:41:18+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 24b711edfc34bc45777a3f068812b7d1ed004a5d ]

Example setup:
    host: ip -6 addr add dev eth1 2001:db8:104::4
           where eth1 is enslaved to a VRF

    switch: ip -6 ro add 2001:db8:104::4/128 dev br1
            where br1 only has an LLA

           ping6 2001:db8:104::4
           ssh   2001:db8:104::4

(NOTE: UDP works fine if the PKTINFO has the address set to the global
address and ifindex is set to the index of eth1 with a destination an
LLA).

For ICMP, icmp6_iif needs to be updated to check if skb-&gt;dev is an
L3 master. If it is then return the ifindex from rt6i_idev similar
to what is done for loopback.

For TCP, restore the original tcp_v6_iif definition which is needed in
most places and add a new tcp_v6_iif_l3_slave that considers the
l3_slave variability. This latter check is only needed for socket
lookups.

Fixes: 9ff74384600a ("net: vrf: Handle ipv6 multicast and link-local addresses")
Signed-off-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: clear tp-&gt;packets_out when purging write queue</title>
<updated>2018-04-29T09:33:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Soheil Hassas Yeganeh</name>
<email>soheil@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-15T00:45:20+00:00</published>
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Clear tp-&gt;packets_out when purging the write queue, otherwise
tcp_rearm_rto() mistakenly assumes TCP write queue is not empty.
This results in NULL pointer dereference.

Also, remove the redundant `tp-&gt;packets_out = 0` from
tcp_disconnect(), since tcp_disconnect() calls
tcp_write_queue_purge().

Fixes: a27fd7a8ed38 (tcp: purge write queue upon RST)
Reported-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan &lt;subashab@codeaurora.org&gt;
Reported-by: Sami Farin &lt;hvtaifwkbgefbaei@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sami Farin &lt;hvtaifwkbgefbaei@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh &lt;soheil@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: reset sk_send_head in tcp_write_queue_purge</title>
<updated>2018-03-31T16:10:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Soheil Hassas Yeganeh</name>
<email>soheil@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-15T16:09:13+00:00</published>
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tcp_write_queue_purge clears all the SKBs in the write queue
but does not reset the sk_send_head. As a result, we can have
a NULL pointer dereference anywhere that we use tcp_send_head
instead of the tcp_write_queue_tail.

For example, after a27fd7a8ed38 (tcp: purge write queue upon RST),
we can purge the write queue on RST. Prior to
75c119afe14f (tcp: implement rb-tree based retransmit queue),
tcp_push will only check tcp_send_head and then accesses
tcp_write_queue_tail to send the actual SKB. As a result, it will
dereference a NULL pointer.

This has been reported twice for 4.14 where we don't have
75c119afe14f:

By Timofey Titovets:

[  422.081094] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
at 0000000000000038
[  422.081254] IP: tcp_push+0x42/0x110
[  422.081314] PGD 0 P4D 0
[  422.081364] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP PTI

By Yongjian Xu:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000038
IP: tcp_push+0x48/0x120
PGD 80000007ff77b067 P4D 80000007ff77b067 PUD 7fd989067 PMD 0
Oops: 0002 [#18] SMP PTI
Modules linked in: tcp_diag inet_diag tcp_bbr sch_fq iTCO_wdt
iTCO_vendor_support pcspkr ixgbe mdio i2c_i801 lpc_ich joydev input_leds shpchp
e1000e igb dca ptp pps_core hwmon mei_me mei ipmi_si ipmi_msghandler sg ses
scsi_transport_sas enclosure ext4 jbd2 mbcache sd_mod ahci libahci megaraid_sas
wmi ast ttm dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod dax
CPU: 6 PID: 14156 Comm: [ET_NET 6] Tainted: G D 4.14.26-1.el6.x86_64 #1
Hardware name: LENOVO ThinkServer RD440 /ThinkServer RD440, BIOS A0TS80A
09/22/2014
task: ffff8807d78d8140 task.stack: ffffc9000e944000
RIP: 0010:tcp_push+0x48/0x120
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000e947a88 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 00000000000005b4 RBX: ffff880f7cce9c00 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000040 RDI: ffff8807d00f5000
RBP: ffffc9000e947aa8 R08: 0000000000001c84 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff8807d00f5158 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8807d00f5000
R13: 0000000000000020 R14: 00000000000256d4 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00007f5916de9700(0000) GS:ffff88107fd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000038 CR3: 00000007f8226004 CR4: 00000000001606e0
Call Trace:
tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x33d/0xe50
tcp_sendmsg+0x37/0x60
inet_sendmsg+0x39/0xc0
sock_sendmsg+0x49/0x60
sock_write_iter+0xb6/0x100
do_iter_readv_writev+0xec/0x130
? rw_verify_area+0x49/0xb0
do_iter_write+0x97/0xd0
vfs_writev+0x7e/0xe0
? __wake_up_common_lock+0x80/0xa0
? __fget_light+0x2c/0x70
? __do_page_fault+0x1e7/0x530
do_writev+0x60/0xf0
? inet_shutdown+0xac/0x110
SyS_writev+0x10/0x20
do_syscall_64+0x6f/0x140
? prepare_exit_to_usermode+0x8b/0xa0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2
RIP: 0033:0x3135ce0c57
RSP: 002b:00007f5916de4b00 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000014
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000003135ce0c57
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 00007f5916de4b90 RDI: 000000000000606f
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007f5916de8c38
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 00000000000464cc
R13: 00007f5916de8c30 R14: 00007f58d8bef080 R15: 0000000000000002
Code: 48 8b 97 60 01 00 00 4c 8d 97 58 01 00 00 41 b9 00 00 00 00 41 89 f3 4c 39
d2 49 0f 44 d1 41 81 e3 00 80 00 00 0f 85 b0 00 00 00 &lt;80&gt; 4a 38 08 44 8b 8f 74
06 00 00 44 89 8f 7c 06 00 00 83 e6 01
RIP: tcp_push+0x48/0x120 RSP: ffffc9000e947a88
CR2: 0000000000000038
---[ end trace 8d545c2e93515549 ]---

Fixes: a27fd7a8ed38 (tcp: purge write queue upon RST)
Reported-by: Timofey Titovets &lt;nefelim4ag@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Yongjian Xu &lt;yongjianchn@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh &lt;soheil@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Yongjian Xu &lt;yongjianchn@gmail.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: invalidate rate samples during SACK reneging</title>
<updated>2018-01-02T19:31:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yousuk Seung</name>
<email>ysseung@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-07T21:41:34+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d4761754b4fb2ef8d9a1e9d121c4bec84e1fe292 ]

Mark tcp_sock during a SACK reneging event and invalidate rate samples
while marked. Such rate samples may overestimate bw by including packets
that were SACKed before reneging.

&lt; ack 6001 win 10000 sack 7001:38001
&lt; ack 7001 win 0 sack 8001:38001 // Reneg detected
&gt; seq 7001:8001 // RTO, SACK cleared.
&lt; ack 38001 win 10000

In above example the rate sample taken after the last ack will count
7001-38001 as delivered while the actual delivery rate likely could
be much lower i.e. 7001-8001.

This patch adds a new field tcp_sock.sack_reneg and marks it when we
declare SACK reneging and entering TCP_CA_Loss, and unmarks it after
the last rate sample was taken before moving back to TCP_CA_Open. This
patch also invalidates rate samples taken while tcp_sock.is_sack_reneg
is set.

Fixes: b9f64820fb22 ("tcp: track data delivery rate for a TCP connection")
Signed-off-by: Yousuk Seung &lt;ysseung@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh &lt;soheil@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Priyaranjan Jha &lt;priyarjha@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: when scheduling TLP, time of RTO should account for current ACK</title>
<updated>2017-12-17T14:07:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Neal Cardwell</name>
<email>ncardwell@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-18T02:06:14+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ed66dfaf236c04d414de1d218441296e57fb2bd2 ]

Fix the TLP scheduling logic so that when scheduling a TLP probe, we
ensure that the estimated time at which an RTO would fire accounts for
the fact that ACKs indicating forward progress should push back RTO
times.

After the following fix:

df92c8394e6e ("tcp: fix xmit timer to only be reset if data ACKed/SACKed")

we had an unintentional behavior change in the following kind of
scenario: suppose the RTT variance has been very low recently. Then
suppose we send out a flight of N packets and our RTT is 100ms:

t=0: send a flight of N packets
t=100ms: receive an ACK for N-1 packets

The response before df92c8394e6e that was:
  -&gt; schedule a TLP for now + RTO_interval

The response after df92c8394e6e is:
  -&gt; schedule a TLP for t=0 + RTO_interval

Since RTO_interval = srtt + RTT_variance, this means that we have
scheduled a TLP timer at a point in the future that only accounts for
RTT_variance. If the RTT_variance term is small, this means that the
timer fires soon.

Before df92c8394e6e this would not happen, because in that code, when
we receive an ACK for a prefix of flight, we did:

    1) Near the top of tcp_ack(), switch from TLP timer to RTO
       at write_queue_head-&gt;paket_tx_time + RTO_interval:
            if (icsk-&gt;icsk_pending == ICSK_TIME_LOSS_PROBE)
                   tcp_rearm_rto(sk);

    2) In tcp_clean_rtx_queue(), update the RTO to now + RTO_interval:
            if (flag &amp; FLAG_ACKED) {
                   tcp_rearm_rto(sk);

    3) In tcp_ack() after tcp_fastretrans_alert() switch from RTO
       to TLP at now + RTO_interval:
            if (icsk-&gt;icsk_pending == ICSK_TIME_RETRANS)
                   tcp_schedule_loss_probe(sk);

In df92c8394e6e we removed that 3-phase dance, and instead directly
set the TLP timer once: we set the TLP timer in cases like this to
write_queue_head-&gt;packet_tx_time + RTO_interval. So if the RTT
variance is small, then this means that this is setting the TLP timer
to fire quite soon. This means if the ACK for the tail of the flight
takes longer than an RTT to arrive (often due to delayed ACKs), then
the TLP timer fires too quickly.

Fixes: df92c8394e6e ("tcp: fix xmit timer to only be reset if data ACKed/SACKed")
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh &lt;soheil@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: use IPCB instead of TCP_SKB_CB in inet_exact_dif_match()</title>
<updated>2017-12-17T14:07:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Ahern</name>
<email>dsahern@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-03T17:33:00+00:00</published>
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[ Usptream commit b4d1605a8ea608fd7dc45b926a05d75d340bde4b ]

After this fix : ("tcp: add tcp_v4_fill_cb()/tcp_v4_restore_cb()"),
socket lookups happen while skb-&gt;cb[] has not been mangled yet by TCP.

Fixes: a04a480d4392 ("net: Require exact match for TCP socket lookups if dif is l3mdev")
Signed-off-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: fix tcp_mtu_probe() vs highest_sack</title>
<updated>2017-11-01T12:18:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-31T06:08:20+00:00</published>
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Based on SNMP values provided by Roman, Yuchung made the observation
that some crashes in tcp_sacktag_walk() might be caused by MTU probing.

Looking at tcp_mtu_probe(), I found that when a new skb was placed
in front of the write queue, we were not updating tcp highest sack.

If one skb is freed because all its content was copied to the new skb
(for MTU probing), then tp-&gt;highest_sack could point to a now freed skb.

Bad things would then happen, including infinite loops.

This patch renames tcp_highest_sack_combine() and uses it
from tcp_mtu_probe() to fix the bug.

Note that I also removed one test against tp-&gt;sacked_out,
since we want to replace tp-&gt;highest_sack regardless of whatever
condition, since keeping a stale pointer to freed skb is a recipe
for disaster.

Fixes: a47e5a988a57 ("[TCP]: Convert highest_sack to sk_buff to allow direct access")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Reported-by: Oleksandr Natalenko &lt;oleksandr@natalenko.name&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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