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authorChia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com>2026-01-31 23:25:07 +0100
committerPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>2026-02-03 15:13:24 +0100
commit3ae62b8b4a4848f745d5ed12f10056cb4e4c81f0 (patch)
treec1bb2ab6a6af35bf122193c840078141ac233cf3
parentc5ff6b83715919767f181f13e992b5055812a194 (diff)
tcp: accecn: retransmit downgraded SYN in AccECN negotiation
Based on AccECN spec (RFC9768) Section 3.1.4.1, if the sender of an AccECN SYN (the TCP Client) times out before receiving the SYN/ACK, it SHOULD attempt to negotiate the use of AccECN at least one more time by continuing to set all three TCP ECN flags (AE,CWR,ECE) = (1,1,1) on the first retransmitted SYN (using the usual retransmission time-outs). If this first retransmission also fails to be acknowledged, in deployment scenarios where AccECN path traversal might be problematic, the TCP Client SHOULD send subsequent retransmissions of the SYN with the three TCP-ECN flags cleared (AE,CWR,ECE) = (0,0,0). Signed-off-by: Chia-Yu Chang <chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com> Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260131222515.8485-8-chia-yu.chang@nokia-bell-labs.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp_output.c15
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index 597e888af36d..b28596655d73 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -3606,12 +3606,15 @@ start:
tcp_retrans_try_collapse(sk, skb, avail_wnd);
}
- /* RFC3168, section 6.1.1.1. ECN fallback
- * As AccECN uses the same SYN flags (+ AE), this check covers both
- * cases.
- */
- if ((TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tcp_flags & TCPHDR_SYN_ECN) == TCPHDR_SYN_ECN)
- tcp_ecn_clear_syn(sk, skb);
+ if (!tcp_ecn_mode_pending(tp) || icsk->icsk_retransmits > 1) {
+ /* RFC3168, section 6.1.1.1. ECN fallback
+ * As AccECN uses the same SYN flags (+ AE), this check
+ * covers both cases.
+ */
+ if ((TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tcp_flags & TCPHDR_SYN_ECN) ==
+ TCPHDR_SYN_ECN)
+ tcp_ecn_clear_syn(sk, skb);
+ }
/* Update global and local TCP statistics. */
segs = tcp_skb_pcount(skb);