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tcp: mitigate ACK loops for connections as tcp_timewait_sock

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Ensure that in state FIN_WAIT2 or TIME_WAIT, where the connection is
represented by a tcp_timewait_sock, we rate limit dupacks in response
to incoming packets (a) with TCP timestamps that fail PAWS checks, or
(b) with sequence numbers that are out of the acceptable window.

We do not send a dupack in response to out-of-window packets if it has
been less than sysctl_tcp_invalid_ratelimit (default 500ms) since we
last sent a dupack in response to an out-of-window packet.

Reported-by: Avery Fay <avery@mixpanel.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Neal Cardwell 2015-02-06 16:04:41 -05:00 • committed by David S. Miller
parent f2b2c582e8
commit 4fb17a6091
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include/linux/tcp.h
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@ -342,6 +342,10 @@ struct tcp_timewait_sock {
u32 tw_rcv_wnd;
u32 tw_ts_offset;
u32 tw_ts_recent;
/* The time we sent the last out-of-window ACK: */
u32 tw_last_oow_ack_time;
long tw_ts_recent_stamp;
#ifdef CONFIG_TCP_MD5SIG
struct tcp_md5sig_key *tw_md5_key;