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Neal Cardwell
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Loss recovery undo_retrans bookkeeping had a long-standing bug where a DSACK from a spurious TLP retransmit packet could cause an erroneous undo of a fast recovery or RTO recovery that repaired a single really-lost packet (in a sequence range outside that of the TLP retransmit). Basically, because the loss recovery state machine didn't account for the fact that it sent a TLP retransmit, the DSACK for the TLP retransmit could erroneously be implicitly be interpreted as corresponding to the normal fast recovery or RTO recovery retransmit that plugged a real hole, thus resulting in an improper undo. For example, consider the following buggy scenario where there is a real packet loss but the congestion control response is improperly undone because of this bug: + send packets P1, P2, P3, P4 + P1 is really lost + send TLP retransmit of P4 + receive SACK for original P2, P3, P4 + enter fast recovery, fast-retransmit P1, increment undo_retrans to 1 + receive DSACK for TLP P4, decrement undo_retrans to 0, undo (bug!) + receive cumulative ACK for P1-P4 (fast retransmit plugged real hole) The fix: when we initialize undo machinery in tcp_init_undo(), if there is a TLP retransmit in flight, then increment tp->undo_retrans so that we make sure that we receive a DSACK corresponding to the TLP retransmit, as well as DSACKs for all later normal retransmits, before triggering a loss recovery undo. Note that we also have to move the line that clears tp->tlp_high_seq for RTO recovery, so that upon RTO we remember the tp->tlp_high_seq value until tcp_init_undo() and clear it only afterward. Also note that the bug dates back to the original 2013 TLP implementation, commit6ba8a3b19e("tcp: Tail loss probe (TLP)"). However, this patch will only compile and work correctly with kernels that have tp->tlp_retrans, which was added only in v5.8 in 2020 in commit76be93fc07("tcp: allow at most one TLP probe per flight"). So we associate this fix with that later commit. Fixes:76be93fc07("tcp: allow at most one TLP probe per flight") Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Cc: Kevin Yang <yyd@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240703171246.1739561-1-ncardwell.sw@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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