Patch "tcp: when rearming RTO, if RTO time is in past then fire RTO ASAP" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    tcp: when rearming RTO, if RTO time is in past then fire RTO ASAP

to the 3.18-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-when-rearming-rto-if-rto-time-is-in-past-then-fire-rto-asap.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 Thu Aug 24 17:49:47 PDT 2017
From: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 17:53:36 -0400
Subject: tcp: when rearming RTO, if RTO time is in past then fire RTO ASAP

From: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>


[ Upstream commit cdbeb633ca71a02b7b63bfeb94994bf4e1a0b894 ]

In some situations tcp_send_loss_probe() can realize that it's unable
to send a loss probe (TLP), and falls back to calling tcp_rearm_rto()
to schedule an RTO timer. In such cases, sometimes tcp_rearm_rto()
realizes that the RTO was eligible to fire immediately or at some
point in the past (delta_us <= 0). Previously in such cases
tcp_rearm_rto() was scheduling such "overdue" RTOs to happen at now +
icsk_rto, which caused needless delays of hundreds of milliseconds
(and non-linear behavior that made reproducible testing
difficult). This commit changes the logic to schedule "overdue" RTOs
ASAP, rather than at now + icsk_rto.

Fixes: 6ba8a3b19e76 ("tcp: Tail loss probe (TLP)")
Suggested-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -2985,8 +2985,7 @@ void tcp_rearm_rto(struct sock *sk)
 			/* delta may not be positive if the socket is locked
 			 * when the retrans timer fires and is rescheduled.
 			 */
-			if (delta > 0)
-				rto = delta;
+			delta = max(delta, 1);
 		}
 		inet_csk_reset_xmit_timer(sk, ICSK_TIME_RETRANS, rto,
 					  TCP_RTO_MAX);


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

queue-3.18/tcp-when-rearming-rto-if-rto-time-is-in-past-then-fire-rto-asap.patch