Patch "tcp: revert F-RTO middle-box workaround" 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: revert F-RTO middle-box workaround

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-revert-f-rto-middle-box-workaround.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 Tue Mar  6 19:02:12 PST 2018
From: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 14:15:01 -0800
Subject: tcp: revert F-RTO middle-box workaround

From: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>


[ Upstream commit d4131f09770d9b7471c9da65e6ecd2477746ac5c ]

This reverts commit cc663f4d4c97b7297fb45135ab23cfd508b35a77. While fixing
some broken middle-boxes that modifies receive window fields, it does not
address middle-boxes that strip off SACK options. The best solution is
to fully revert this patch and the root F-RTO enhancement.

Fixes: cc663f4d4c97 ("tcp: restrict F-RTO to work-around broken middle-boxes")
Reported-by: Teodor Milkov <tm@del.bg>
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@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 |   17 +++++++----------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -1947,7 +1947,6 @@ void tcp_enter_loss(struct sock *sk)
 	struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 	struct net *net = sock_net(sk);
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
-	bool new_recovery = icsk->icsk_ca_state < TCP_CA_Recovery;
 	bool is_reneg;			/* is receiver reneging on SACKs? */
 	bool mark_lost;
 
@@ -2010,17 +2009,15 @@ void tcp_enter_loss(struct sock *sk)
 	tp->high_seq = tp->snd_nxt;
 	tcp_ecn_queue_cwr(tp);
 
-	/* F-RTO RFC5682 sec 3.1 step 1: retransmit SND.UNA if no previous
-	 * loss recovery is underway except recurring timeout(s) on
-	 * the same SND.UNA (sec 3.2). Disable F-RTO on path MTU probing
-	 *
-	 * In theory F-RTO can be used repeatedly during loss recovery.
-	 * In practice this interacts badly with broken middle-boxes that
-	 * falsely raise the receive window, which results in repeated
-	 * timeouts and stop-and-go behavior.
+	/* F-RTO RFC5682 sec 3.1 step 1 mandates to disable F-RTO
+	 * if a previous recovery is underway, otherwise it may incorrectly
+	 * call a timeout spurious if some previously retransmitted packets
+	 * are s/acked (sec 3.2). We do not apply that retriction since
+	 * retransmitted skbs are permanently tagged with TCPCB_EVER_RETRANS
+	 * so FLAG_ORIG_SACK_ACKED is always correct. But we do disable F-RTO
+	 * on PTMU discovery to avoid sending new data.
 	 */
 	tp->frto = sysctl_tcp_frto &&
-		   (new_recovery || icsk->icsk_retransmits) &&
 		   !inet_csk(sk)->icsk_mtup.probe_size;
 }
 


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

queue-4.14/tcp-purge-write-queue-upon-rst.patch
queue-4.14/tcp-revert-f-rto-extension-to-detect-more-spurious-timeouts.patch
queue-4.14/tcp-revert-f-rto-middle-box-workaround.patch