linux-toradex.git/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c, branch v3.4.70

tcp: must unclone packets before mangling them

2013-11-04T12:23:40+00:00

[ Upstream commit c52e2421f7368fd36cbe330d2cf41b10452e39a9 ]

TCP stack should make sure it owns skbs before mangling them.

We had various crashes using bnx2x, and it turned out gso_size
was cleared right before bnx2x driver was populating TC descriptor
of the _previous_ packet send. TCP stack can sometime retransmit
packets that are still in Qdisc.

Of course we could make bnx2x driver more robust (using
ACCESS_ONCE(shinfo->gso_size) for example), but the bug is TCP stack.

We have identified two points where skb_unclone() was needed.

This patch adds a WARN_ON_ONCE() to warn us if we missed another
fix of this kind.

Kudos to Neal for finding the root cause of this bug. Its visible
using small MSS.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell 
Cc: Yuchung Cheng 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tcp: xps: fix reordering issues

2013-06-27T18:27:32+00:00

[ Upstream commit 547669d483e5783d722772af1483fa474da7caf9 ]

commit 3853b5841c01a ("xps: Improvements in TX queue selection")
introduced ooo_okay flag, but the condition to set it is slightly wrong.

In our traces, we have seen ACK packets being received out of order,
and RST packets sent in response.

We should test if we have any packets still in host queue.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Tom Herbert 
Cc: Yuchung Cheng 
Cc: Neal Cardwell 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tcp: Reallocate headroom if it would overflow csum_start

2013-05-01T16:41:07+00:00

[ Upstream commit 50bceae9bd3569d56744882f3012734d48a1d413 ]

If a TCP retransmission gets partially ACKed and collapsed multiple
times it is possible for the headroom to grow beyond 64K which will
overflow the 16bit skb->csum_start which is based on the start of
the headroom. It has been observed rarely in the wild with IPoIB due
to the 64K MTU.

Verify if the acking and collapsing resulted in a headroom exceeding
what csum_start can cover and reallocate the headroom if so.

A big thank you to Jim Foraker  and the team at
LLNL for helping out with the investigation and testing.

Reported-by: Jim Foraker 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf 
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tcp: preserve ACK clocking in TSO

2013-04-05T17:04:38+00:00

[ Upstream commit f4541d60a449afd40448b06496dcd510f505928e ]

A long standing problem with TSO is the fact that tcp_tso_should_defer()
rearms the deferred timer, while it should not.

Current code leads to following bad bursty behavior :

20:11:24.484333 IP A > B: . 297161:316921(19760) ack 1 win 119
20:11:24.484337 IP B > A: . ack 263721 win 1117
20:11:24.485086 IP B > A: . ack 265241 win 1117
20:11:24.485925 IP B > A: . ack 266761 win 1117
20:11:24.486759 IP B > A: . ack 268281 win 1117
20:11:24.487594 IP B > A: . ack 269801 win 1117
20:11:24.488430 IP B > A: . ack 271321 win 1117
20:11:24.489267 IP B > A: . ack 272841 win 1117
20:11:24.490104 IP B > A: . ack 274361 win 1117
20:11:24.490939 IP B > A: . ack 275881 win 1117
20:11:24.491775 IP B > A: . ack 277401 win 1117
20:11:24.491784 IP A > B: . 316921:332881(15960) ack 1 win 119
20:11:24.492620 IP B > A: . ack 278921 win 1117
20:11:24.493448 IP B > A: . ack 280441 win 1117
20:11:24.494286 IP B > A: . ack 281961 win 1117
20:11:24.495122 IP B > A: . ack 283481 win 1117
20:11:24.495958 IP B > A: . ack 285001 win 1117
20:11:24.496791 IP B > A: . ack 286521 win 1117
20:11:24.497628 IP B > A: . ack 288041 win 1117
20:11:24.498459 IP B > A: . ack 289561 win 1117
20:11:24.499296 IP B > A: . ack 291081 win 1117
20:11:24.500133 IP B > A: . ack 292601 win 1117
20:11:24.500970 IP B > A: . ack 294121 win 1117
20:11:24.501388 IP B > A: . ack 295641 win 1117
20:11:24.501398 IP A > B: . 332881:351881(19000) ack 1 win 119

While the expected behavior is more like :

20:19:49.259620 IP A > B: . 197601:202161(4560) ack 1 win 119
20:19:49.260446 IP B > A: . ack 154281 win 1212
20:19:49.261282 IP B > A: . ack 155801 win 1212
20:19:49.262125 IP B > A: . ack 157321 win 1212
20:19:49.262136 IP A > B: . 202161:206721(4560) ack 1 win 119
20:19:49.262958 IP B > A: . ack 158841 win 1212
20:19:49.263795 IP B > A: . ack 160361 win 1212
20:19:49.264628 IP B > A: . ack 161881 win 1212
20:19:49.264637 IP A > B: . 206721:211281(4560) ack 1 win 119
20:19:49.265465 IP B > A: . ack 163401 win 1212
20:19:49.265886 IP B > A: . ack 164921 win 1212
20:19:49.266722 IP B > A: . ack 166441 win 1212
20:19:49.266732 IP A > B: . 211281:215841(4560) ack 1 win 119
20:19:49.267559 IP B > A: . ack 167961 win 1212
20:19:49.268394 IP B > A: . ack 169481 win 1212
20:19:49.269232 IP B > A: . ack 171001 win 1212
20:19:49.269241 IP A > B: . 215841:221161(5320) ack 1 win 119

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Yuchung Cheng 
Cc: Van Jacobson 
Cc: Neal Cardwell 
Cc: Nandita Dukkipati 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tcp: fix skb_availroom()

2013-03-28T19:11:53+00:00

[ Upstream commit 16fad69cfe4adbbfa813de516757b87bcae36d93 ]

Chrome OS team reported a crash on a Pixel ChromeBook in TCP stack :

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=182056

commit a21d45726acac (tcp: avoid order-1 allocations on wifi and tx
path) did a poor choice adding an 'avail_size' field to skb, while
what we really needed was a 'reserved_tailroom' one.

It would have avoided commit 22b4a4f22da (tcp: fix retransmit of
partially acked frames) and this commit.

Crash occurs because skb_split() is not aware of the 'avail_size'
management (and should not be aware)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Reported-by: Mukesh Agrawal 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tcp: Apply device TSO segment limit earlier

2012-10-02T17:29:34+00:00

[ Upstream commit 1485348d2424e1131ea42efc033cbd9366462b01 ]

Cache the device gso_max_segs in sock::sk_gso_max_segs and use it to
limit the size of TSO skbs.  This avoids the need to fall back to
software GSO for local TCP senders.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tcp: fix retransmit of partially acked frames

2012-04-18T20:52:45+00:00

Alexander Beregalov reported skb_over_panic errors and provided stack
trace.

I occurs commit a21d45726aca (tcp: avoid order-1 allocations on wifi and
tx path) added a regression, when a retransmit is done after a partial
ACK.

tcp_retransmit_skb() tries to aggregate several frames if the first one
has enough available room to hold the following ones payload. This is
controlled by /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_retrans_collapse tunable (default :
enabled)

Problem is we must make sure _pskb_trim_head() doesnt fool
skb_availroom() when pulling some bytes from skb (this pull is done when
receiver ACK part of the frame).

Reported-by: Alexander Beregalov 
Cc: Marc MERLIN 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: avoid order-1 allocations on wifi and tx path

2012-04-11T14:11:12+00:00

Marc Merlin reported many order-1 allocations failures in TX path on its
wireless setup, that dont make any sense with MTU=1500 network, and non
SG capable hardware.

After investigation, it turns out TCP uses sk_stream_alloc_skb() and
used as a convention skb_tailroom(skb) to know how many bytes of data
payload could be put in this skb (for non SG capable devices)

Note : these skb used kmalloc-4096 (MTU=1500 + MAX_HEADER +
sizeof(struct skb_shared_info) being above 2048)

Later, mac80211 layer need to add some bytes at the tail of skb
(IEEE80211_ENCRYPT_TAILROOM = 18 bytes) and since no more tailroom is
available has to call pskb_expand_head() and request order-1
allocations.

This patch changes sk_stream_alloc_skb() so that only
sk->sk_prot->max_header bytes of headroom are reserved, and use a new
skb field, avail_size to hold the data payload limit.

This way, order-0 allocations done by TCP stack can leave more than 2 KB
of tailroom and no more allocation is performed in mac80211 layer (or
any layer needing some tailroom)

avail_size is unioned with mark/dropcount, since mark will be set later
in IP stack for output packets. Therefore, skb size is unchanged.

Reported-by: Marc MERLIN 
Tested-by: Marc MERLIN 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2012-02-04T21:39:32+00:00

tcp: fix tcp_trim_head() to adjust segment count with skb MSS

2012-01-30T17:42:58+00:00

This commit fixes tcp_trim_head() to recalculate the number of
segments in the skb with the skb's existing MSS, so trimming the head
causes the skb segment count to be monotonically non-increasing - it
should stay the same or go down, but not increase.

Previously tcp_trim_head() used the current MSS of the connection. But
if there was a decrease in MSS between original transmission and ACK
(e.g. due to PMTUD), this could cause tcp_trim_head() to
counter-intuitively increase the segment count when trimming bytes off
the head of an skb. This violated assumptions in tcp_tso_acked() that
tcp_trim_head() only decreases the packet count, so that packets_acked
in tcp_tso_acked() could underflow, leading tcp_clean_rtx_queue() to
pass u32 pkts_acked values as large as 0xffffffff to
ca_ops->pkts_acked().

As an aside, if tcp_trim_head() had really wanted the skb to reflect
the current MSS, it should have called tcp_set_skb_tso_segs()
unconditionally, since a decrease in MSS would mean that a
single-packet skb should now be sliced into multiple segments.

Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell 
Acked-by: Nandita Dukkipati 
Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller