tcp: undo spurious timeout after SACK reneging On SACK reneging the sender immediately retransmits and forces a timeout but disables Eifel (undo). If the (buggy) receiver does not drop any packet this can trigger a false slow-start retransmit storm driven by the ACKs of the original packets. This can be detected with undo and TCP timestamps. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c index 0d9bdac..3bd55ba 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -2059,11 +2059,8 @@ if (tcp_is_reno(tp)) tcp_reset_reno_sack(tp); - if (!how) { - /* Push undo marker, if it was plain RTO and nothing - * was retransmitted. */ - tp->undo_marker = tp->snd_una; - } else { + tp->undo_marker = tp->snd_una; + if (how) { tp->sacked_out = 0; tp->fackets_out = 0; }