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tcp: temporarily disable Fast Open on SYN timeout

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Fast Open currently has a fall back feature to address SYN-data being
dropped but it requires the middle-box to pass on regular SYN retry
after SYN-data. This is implemented in commit aab487435 ("net-tcp:
Fast Open client - detecting SYN-data drops")

However some NAT boxes will drop all subsequent packets after first
SYN-data and blackholes the entire connections.  An example is in
commit 356d7d8 "netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix tcp_in_window for Fast
Open".

The sender should note such incidents and fall back to use the regular
TCP handshake on subsequent attempts temporarily as well: after the
second SYN timeouts the original Fast Open SYN is most likely lost.
When such an event recurs Fast Open is disabled based on the number of
recurrences exponentially.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Yuchung Cheng 2013-10-29 10:09:05 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent aa58d9813d
commit c968601d17
2 changed files with 8 additions and 3 deletions
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net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c
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@ -671,8 +671,9 @@ void tcp_fastopen_cache_set(struct sock *sk, u16 mss,
struct tcp_fastopen_metrics *tfom = &tm->tcpm_fastopen;
write_seqlock_bh(&fastopen_seqlock);
tfom->mss = mss;
if (cookie->len > 0)
if (mss)
tfom->mss = mss;
if (cookie && cookie->len > 0)
tfom->cookie = *cookie;
if (syn_lost) {
++tfom->syn_loss;

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net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
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@ -156,12 +156,16 @@ static bool retransmits_timed_out(struct sock *sk,
static int tcp_write_timeout(struct sock *sk)
{
struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk);
struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
int retry_until;
bool do_reset, syn_set = false;
if ((1 << sk->sk_state) & (TCPF_SYN_SENT | TCPF_SYN_RECV)) {
if (icsk->icsk_retransmits)
if (icsk->icsk_retransmits) {
dst_negative_advice(sk);
if (tp->syn_fastopen || tp->syn_data)
tcp_fastopen_cache_set(sk, 0, NULL, true);
}
retry_until = icsk->icsk_syn_retries ? : sysctl_tcp_syn_retries;
syn_set = true;
} else {