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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2019-06-05 17:55:09 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-06-06 05:05:01 +0300
commit323a53c41292a0d7efc8748856c623324c8d7c21 (patch)
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ipv6: tcp: enable flowlabel reflection in some RST packets
When RST packets are sent because no socket could be found, it makes sense to use flowlabel_reflect sysctl to decide if a reflection of the flowlabel is requested. This extends commit 22b6722bfa59 ("ipv6: Add sysctl for per namespace flow label reflection"), for some TCP RST packets. In order to provide full control of this new feature, flowlabel_reflect becomes a bitmask. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt20
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index a73b3a02e49a..f4b1043e92ed 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -1429,14 +1429,24 @@ flowlabel_state_ranges - BOOLEAN
FALSE: disabled
Default: true
-flowlabel_reflect - BOOLEAN
- Automatically reflect the flow label. Needed for Path MTU
+flowlabel_reflect - INTEGER
+ Control flow label reflection. Needed for Path MTU
Discovery to work with Equal Cost Multipath Routing in anycast
environments. See RFC 7690 and:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wang-6man-flow-label-reflection-01
- TRUE: enabled
- FALSE: disabled
- Default: FALSE
+
+ This is a mask of two bits.
+ 1: enabled for established flows
+
+ Note that this prevents automatic flowlabel changes, as done
+ in "tcp: change IPv6 flow-label upon receiving spurious retransmission"
+ and "tcp: Change txhash on every SYN and RTO retransmit"
+
+ 2: enabled for TCP RESET packets (no active listener)
+ If set, a RST packet sent in response to a SYN packet on a closed
+ port will reflect the incoming flow label.
+
+ Default: 0
fib_multipath_hash_policy - INTEGER
Controls which hash policy to use for multipath routes.