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authorNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>2015-02-06 22:04:39 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-02-08 10:03:12 +0100
commita9b2c06dbef48ed31cff1764c5ce824829106f4f (patch)
tree7e1dc6d03d3f2ba41a3a867fad3bf59c49665599 /net/ipv4
parenttcp: helpers to mitigate ACK loops by rate-limiting out-of-window dupacks (diff)
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tcp: mitigate ACK loops for connections as tcp_request_sock
In the SYN_RECV state, where the TCP connection is represented by tcp_request_sock, we now rate-limit SYNACKs in response to a client's retransmitted SYNs: we do not send a SYNACK in response to client SYN if it has been less than sysctl_tcp_invalid_ratelimit (default 500ms) since we last sent a SYNACK in response to a client's retransmitted SYN. This allows the vast majority of legitimate client connections to proceed unimpeded, even for the most aggressive platforms, iOS and MacOS, which actually retransmit SYNs 1-second intervals for several times in a row. They use SYN RTO timeouts following the progression: 1,1,1,1,1,2,4,8,16,32. Reported-by: Avery Fay <avery@mixpanel.com> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c
index bc9216dc9de1..131aa4950d1c 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c
@@ -605,7 +605,11 @@ struct sock *tcp_check_req(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
* Reset timer after retransmitting SYNACK, similar to
* the idea of fast retransmit in recovery.
*/
- if (!inet_rtx_syn_ack(sk, req))
+ if (!tcp_oow_rate_limited(sock_net(sk), skb,
+ LINUX_MIB_TCPACKSKIPPEDSYNRECV,
+ &tcp_rsk(req)->last_oow_ack_time) &&
+
+ !inet_rtx_syn_ack(sk, req))
req->expires = min(TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT << req->num_timeout,
TCP_RTO_MAX) + jiffies;
return NULL;