Patch "tcp: fix child sockets to use system default congestion control if not set" has been added to the 4.0-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    tcp: fix child sockets to use system default congestion control if not set

to the 4.0-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     tcp-fix-child-sockets-to-use-system-default-congestion-control-if-not-set.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Sat Jun 13 09:48:35 PDT 2015
From: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 13:47:07 -0400
Subject: tcp: fix child sockets to use system default congestion control if not set

From: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>

[ Upstream commit 9f950415e4e28e7cfae2e416b43e862e8101d996 ]

Linux 3.17 and earlier are explicitly engineered so that if the app
doesn't specifically request a CC module on a listener before the SYN
arrives, then the child gets the system default CC when the connection
is established. See tcp_init_congestion_control() in 3.17 or earlier,
which says "if no choice made yet assign the current value set as
default". The change ("net: tcp: assign tcp cong_ops when tcp sk is
created") altered these semantics, so that children got their parent
listener's congestion control even if the system default had changed
after the listener was created.

This commit returns to those original semantics from 3.17 and earlier,
since they are the original semantics from 2007 in 4d4d3d1e8 ("[TCP]:
Congestion control initialization."), and some Linux congestion
control workflows depend on that.

In summary, if a listener socket specifically sets TCP_CONGESTION to
"x", or the route locks the CC module to "x", then the child gets
"x". Otherwise the child gets current system default from
net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control. That's the behavior in 3.17 and
earlier, and this commit restores that.

Fixes: 55d8694fa82c ("net: tcp: assign tcp cong_ops when tcp sk is created")
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Cc: Glenn Judd <glenn.judd@morganstanley.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 include/net/inet_connection_sock.h |    3 ++-
 net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c                |    5 ++++-
 net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c           |    5 ++++-
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h
+++ b/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h
@@ -98,7 +98,8 @@ struct inet_connection_sock {
 	const struct tcp_congestion_ops *icsk_ca_ops;
 	const struct inet_connection_sock_af_ops *icsk_af_ops;
 	unsigned int		  (*icsk_sync_mss)(struct sock *sk, u32 pmtu);
-	__u8			  icsk_ca_state:7,
+	__u8			  icsk_ca_state:6,
+				  icsk_ca_setsockopt:1,
 				  icsk_ca_dst_locked:1;
 	__u8			  icsk_retransmits;
 	__u8			  icsk_pending;
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ static void tcp_reinit_congestion_contro
 
 	tcp_cleanup_congestion_control(sk);
 	icsk->icsk_ca_ops = ca;
+	icsk->icsk_ca_setsockopt = 1;
 
 	if (sk->sk_state != TCP_CLOSE && icsk->icsk_ca_ops->init)
 		icsk->icsk_ca_ops->init(sk);
@@ -335,8 +336,10 @@ int tcp_set_congestion_control(struct so
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	ca = __tcp_ca_find_autoload(name);
 	/* No change asking for existing value */
-	if (ca == icsk->icsk_ca_ops)
+	if (ca == icsk->icsk_ca_ops) {
+		icsk->icsk_ca_setsockopt = 1;
 		goto out;
+	}
 	if (!ca)
 		err = -ENOENT;
 	else if (!((ca->flags & TCP_CONG_NON_RESTRICTED) ||
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c
@@ -437,7 +437,10 @@ void tcp_ca_openreq_child(struct sock *s
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 	}
 
-	if (!ca_got_dst && !try_module_get(icsk->icsk_ca_ops->owner))
+	/* If no valid choice made yet, assign current system default ca. */
+	if (!ca_got_dst &&
+	    (!icsk->icsk_ca_setsockopt ||
+	     !try_module_get(icsk->icsk_ca_ops->owner)))
 		tcp_assign_congestion_control(sk);
 
 	tcp_set_ca_state(sk, TCP_CA_Open);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ncardwell@google.com are

queue-4.0/tcp-fix-child-sockets-to-use-system-default-congestion-control-if-not-set.patch