tcp: better handle TCP_USER_TIMEOUT in SYN_SENT state

Yuchung Cheng and Marek Majkowski independently reported a weird
behavior of TCP_USER_TIMEOUT option when used at connect() time.

When the TCP_USER_TIMEOUT is reached, tcp_write_timeout()
believes the flow should live, and the following condition
in tcp_clamp_rto_to_user_timeout() programs one jiffie timers :

    remaining = icsk->icsk_user_timeout - elapsed;
    if (remaining <= 0)
        return 1; /* user timeout has passed; fire ASAP */

This silly situation ends when the max syn rtx count is reached.

This patch makes sure we honor both TCP_SYNCNT and TCP_USER_TIMEOUT,
avoiding these spurious SYN packets.

Fixes: b701a99e431d ("tcp: Add tcp_clamp_rto_to_user_timeout() helper to improve accuracy")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Reported-by: Marek Majkowski <marek@cloudflare.com>
Cc: Jon Maxwell <jmaxwell37@gmail.com>
Link: https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=156940118307949&w=2
Acked-by: Jon Maxwell <jmaxwell37@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Marek Majkowski <marek@cloudflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Majkowski <marek@cloudflare.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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