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    tcp: prevent bogus FRTO undos with non-SACK flows · 1236f22f
    Ilpo Järvinen authored
    
    
    If SACK is not enabled and the first cumulative ACK after the RTO
    retransmission covers more than the retransmitted skb, a spurious
    FRTO undo will trigger (assuming FRTO is enabled for that RTO).
    The reason is that any non-retransmitted segment acknowledged will
    set FLAG_ORIG_SACK_ACKED in tcp_clean_rtx_queue even if there is
    no indication that it would have been delivered for real (the
    scoreboard is not kept with TCPCB_SACKED_ACKED bits in the non-SACK
    case so the check for that bit won't help like it does with SACK).
    Having FLAG_ORIG_SACK_ACKED set results in the spurious FRTO undo
    in tcp_process_loss.
    
    We need to use more strict condition for non-SACK case and check
    that none of the cumulatively ACKed segments were retransmitted
    to prove that progress is due to original transmissions. Only then
    keep FLAG_ORIG_SACK_ACKED set, allowing FRTO undo to proceed in
    non-SACK case.
    
    (FLAG_ORIG_SACK_ACKED is planned to be renamed to FLAG_ORIG_PROGRESS
    to better indicate its purpose but to keep this change minimal, it
    will be done in another patch).
    
    Besides burstiness and congestion control violations, this problem
    can result in RTO loop: When the loss recovery is prematurely
    undoed, only new data will be transmitted (if available) and
    the next retransmission can occur only after a new RTO which in case
    of multiple losses (that are not for consecutive packets) requires
    one RTO per loss to recover.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
    Tested-by: default avatarNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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