Patch "tcp: refresh tcp_mstamp from timers callbacks" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    tcp: refresh tcp_mstamp from timers callbacks

to the 4.14-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-refresh-tcp_mstamp-from-timers-callbacks.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 Sun Dec 31 11:12:48 CET 2017
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 18:22:52 -0800
Subject: tcp: refresh tcp_mstamp from timers callbacks

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>


[ Upstream commit 4688eb7cf3ae2c2721d1dacff5c1384cba47d176 ]

Only the retransmit timer currently refreshes tcp_mstamp

We should do the same for delayed acks and keepalives.

Even if RFC 7323 does not request it, this is consistent to what linux
did in the past, when TS values were based on jiffies.

Fixes: 385e20706fac ("tcp: use tp->tcp_mstamp in output path")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Cc: Mike Maloney <maloney@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Acked-by:  Mike Maloney <maloney@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
@@ -264,6 +264,7 @@ void tcp_delack_timer_handler(struct soc
 			icsk->icsk_ack.pingpong = 0;
 			icsk->icsk_ack.ato      = TCP_ATO_MIN;
 		}
+		tcp_mstamp_refresh(tcp_sk(sk));
 		tcp_send_ack(sk);
 		__NET_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_DELAYEDACKS);
 	}
@@ -627,6 +628,7 @@ static void tcp_keepalive_timer (unsigne
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	tcp_mstamp_refresh(tp);
 	if (sk->sk_state == TCP_FIN_WAIT2 && sock_flag(sk, SOCK_DEAD)) {
 		if (tp->linger2 >= 0) {
 			const int tmo = tcp_fin_time(sk) - TCP_TIMEWAIT_LEN;


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

queue-4.14/tcp-refresh-tcp_mstamp-from-timers-callbacks.patch
queue-4.14/net-fix-double-free-and-memory-corruption-in-get_net_ns_by_id.patch
queue-4.14/sock-free-skb-in-skb_complete_tx_timestamp-on-error.patch
queue-4.14/tcp-invalidate-rate-samples-during-sack-reneging.patch
queue-4.14/tcp-md5sig-use-skb-s-saddr-when-replying-to-an-incoming-segment.patch
queue-4.14/net-ipv4-fix-for-a-race-condition-in-raw_sendmsg.patch
queue-4.14/ipv4-igmp-guard-against-silly-mtu-values.patch
queue-4.14/tcp-fix-potential-underestimation-on-rcv_rtt.patch
queue-4.14/ipv6-mcast-better-catch-silly-mtu-values.patch