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From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>,
	Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	David Morley <morleyd@google.com>,
	Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] tcp: fix icsk_ack.ato bitfield overflow
Date: Fri,  7 Aug 2026 09:44:36 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260807014437.36687-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> (raw)

On cross-region connections we observed delayed ACKs suddenly turning
into immediate ACKs plus a TCP_MAX_QUICKACKS burst, as if the
connection had just received its first data segment.

Commit 95b9a87c6a6b ("tcp: record last received ipv6 flowlabel")
squeezed icsk_ack.ato into 8 bits, sized for TCP_DELACK_MAX. But both
writers still bound ato by icsk_rto, which can be well above 255
jiffies, so the bitfield assignment silently wraps mod 256: repeated
delack timer misses double ato up to icsk_rto, storing 320 as 64 and
256 as 0, and ato == 0 is the "first data packet" sentinel in
tcp_event_data_recv().

Clamp both writers to TCP_DELACK_MAX, which the static_assert already
guarantees to fit and tcp_send_delayed_ack() effectively caps ato at
anyway.

Fixes: 95b9a87c6a6b ("tcp: record last received ipv6 flowlabel")
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 6 +++---
 net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index daff93d51342..c0d2d3c0d40a 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -1039,9 +1039,9 @@ static void tcp_event_data_recv(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 			/* The fastest case is the first. */
 			icsk->icsk_ack.ato = (icsk->icsk_ack.ato >> 1) + TCP_ATO_MIN / 2;
 		} else if (m < icsk->icsk_ack.ato) {
-			icsk->icsk_ack.ato = (icsk->icsk_ack.ato >> 1) + m;
-			if (icsk->icsk_ack.ato > icsk->icsk_rto)
-				icsk->icsk_ack.ato = icsk->icsk_rto;
+			icsk->icsk_ack.ato = min3((icsk->icsk_ack.ato >> 1) + (u32)m,
+						  icsk->icsk_rto,
+						  (u32)TCP_DELACK_MAX);
 		} else if (m > icsk->icsk_rto) {
 			/* Too long gap. Apparently sender failed to
 			 * restart window, so that we send ACKs quickly.
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
index f7215d53bbda..1038e7ba9c2e 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
@@ -334,7 +334,9 @@ void tcp_delack_timer_handler(struct sock *sk)
 	if (inet_csk_ack_scheduled(sk)) {
 		if (!inet_csk_in_pingpong_mode(sk)) {
 			/* Delayed ACK missed: inflate ATO. */
-			icsk->icsk_ack.ato = min_t(u32, icsk->icsk_ack.ato << 1, icsk->icsk_rto);
+			icsk->icsk_ack.ato = min3((u32)icsk->icsk_ack.ato << 1,
+						  icsk->icsk_rto,
+						  (u32)TCP_DELACK_MAX);
 		} else {
 			/* Delayed ACK missed: leave pingpong mode and
 			 * deflate ATO.
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-08-07  1:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-07  1:44 Jiayuan Chen [this message]
2026-08-07 17:16 ` [PATCH net] tcp: fix icsk_ack.ato bitfield overflow Neal Cardwell
2026-08-10 23:20 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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