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Re: [REGRESSION] Warning in tcp_fastretrans_alert() of net/ipv4/tcp_input.c

From: Oleksandr Natalenko <hidden>
Date: 2017-09-15 05:03:29

Hi.

I've applied your test patch but it doesn't fix the issue for me since the 
warning is still there.

Were you able to reproduce it?

On pondělí 11. září 2017 1:59:02 CEST Neal Cardwell wrote:
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Thanks for the detailed report!

I suspect this is due to the following commit, which happened between
4.10 and 4.11:

  89fe18e44f7e tcp: extend F-RTO to catch more spurious timeouts
 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?
id=89fe18e44f7e

This commit expanded the set of scenarios where we would undo a
CA_Loss cwnd reduction and return to TCP_CA_Open, but did not include
a check to see if there were any in-flight retransmissions. I think we
need a fix like the following:
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 659d1baefb2b..730a2de9d2b0 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -2439,7 +2439,7 @@ static bool tcp_try_undo_loss(struct sock *sk,
bool frto_undo)
 {
        struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);

-       if (frto_undo || tcp_may_undo(tp)) {
+       if ((frto_undo || tcp_may_undo(tp)) && !tp->retrans_out) {
                tcp_undo_cwnd_reduction(sk, true);

                DBGUNDO(sk, "partial loss");

I will try a packetdrill test to see if I can reproduce this issue and
verify the fix.

thanks,
neal
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