Fw: [Bug 218937] New: TCP connection frozen on sender and receiver. No retries beyond 1.

Fw: [Bug 218937] New: TCP connection frozen on sender and receiver. No retries beyond 1.

[Stephen Hemminger]

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Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 06:26:40 +0000
From: bugzilla-daemon@kernel.org
To: stephen@networkplumber.org
Subject: [Bug 218937] New: TCP connection frozen on sender and receiver. No retries beyond 1.


https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218937

            Bug ID: 218937
           Summary: TCP connection frozen on sender and receiver. No
                    retries beyond 1.
           Product: Networking
           Version: 2.5
          Hardware: All
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: Other
          Assignee: stephen@networkplumber.org
          Reporter: joysonanuit@gmail.com
        Regression: No

Created attachment 306413
  --> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=306413&action=edit  
sender pcap screenshot

Hi,

i am facing an issue in TCP. At a random point in packet transfer,  sender
stops retrying and receiver stops acking. our previous kernel was 2.6 and
current kernel is 5.4. the sequence of events are as below. 

sender:
sends few packets of data.
misses a few ACKs.
retries again. 
does not get an ack. 
stops

receiver:
receives the packets.
sends ack to only few packets. 
does not retry ack for the remaining packets. 

for this FIN, the sender sends RST. 

there is a timeout at receiver end which forces the socket to be closed.
this erroneous socket reaches the end of timeout and sends a FIN with ACK of
all the data that it has received(including the ones that it did not ack and
the sender was waiting for)

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