rxrpc: Fix lockup due to no error backoff after ack transmit error

If the network becomes (partially) unavailable, say by disabling IPv6, the
background ACK transmission routine can get itself into a tizzy by
proposing immediate ACK retransmission.  Since we're in the call event
processor, that happens immediately without returning to the workqueue
manager.

The condition should clear after a while when either the network comes back
or the call times out.

Fix this by:

 (1) When re-proposing an ACK on failed Tx, don't schedule it immediately.
     This will allow a certain amount of time to elapse before we try
     again.

 (2) Enforce a return to the workqueue manager after a certain number of
     iterations of the call processing loop.

 (3) Add a backoff delay that increases the delay on deferred ACKs by a
     jiffy per failed transmission to a limit of HZ.  The backoff delay is
     cleared on a successful return from kernel_sendmsg().

 (4) Cancel calls immediately if the opening sendmsg fails.  The layer
     above can arrange retransmission or rotate to another server.

Fixes: 248f219cb8 ("rxrpc: Rewrite the data and ack handling code")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
David Howells
2018-11-01 13:39:53 +00:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 284fb78ed7
commit c7e86acfce
3 changed files with 46 additions and 8 deletions

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@@ -611,6 +611,7 @@ struct rxrpc_call {
* not hard-ACK'd packet follows this.
*/
rxrpc_seq_t tx_top; /* Highest Tx slot allocated. */
u16 tx_backoff; /* Delay to insert due to Tx failure */
/* TCP-style slow-start congestion control [RFC5681]. Since the SMSS
* is fixed, we keep these numbers in terms of segments (ie. DATA