linux/net/ipv4, branch v3.19

ipv4: tcp: get rid of ugly unicast_sock

2015-02-02T07:06:19Z

In commit be9f4a44e7d41 ("ipv4: tcp: remove per net tcp_sock") I tried to address contention on a socket lock, but the solution I chose was horrible : commit 3a7c384ffd57e ("ipv4: tcp: unicast_sock should not land outside of TCP stack") addressed a selinux regression. commit 0980e56e506b ("ipv4: tcp: set unicast_sock uc_ttl to -1") took care of another regression. commit b5ec8eeac46 ("ipv4: fix ip_send_skb()") fixed another regression. commit 811230cd85 ("tcp: ipv4: initialize unicast_sock sk_pacing_rate") was another shot in the dark. Really, just use a proper socket per cpu, and remove the skb_orphan() call, to re-enable flow control. This solves a serious problem with FQ packet scheduler when used in hostile environments, as we do not want to allocate a flow structure for every RST packet sent in response to a spoofed packet. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: Don't increase PMTU with Datagram Too Big message.

2015-01-29T23:28:59Z

RFC 1191 said, "a host MUST not increase its estimate of the Path MTU in response to the contents of a Datagram Too Big message." Signed-off-by: Li Wei Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: ipv4: initialize unicast_sock sk_pacing_rate

2015-01-29T07:24:47Z

When I added sk_pacing_rate field, I forgot to initialize its value in the per cpu unicast_sock used in ip_send_unicast_reply() This means that for sch_fq users, RST packets, or ACK packets sent on behalf of TIME_WAIT sockets might be sent to slowly or even dropped once we reach the per flow limit. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Fixes: 95bd09eb2750 ("tcp: TSO packets automatic sizing") Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: fix timing issue in CUBIC slope calculation

2015-01-29T06:18:38Z

This patch fixes a bug in CUBIC that causes cwnd to increase slightly too slowly when multiple ACKs arrive in the same jiffy. If cwnd is supposed to increase at a rate of more than once per jiffy, then CUBIC was sometimes too slow. Because the bic_target is calculated for a future point in time, calculated with time in jiffies, the cwnd can increase over the course of the jiffy while the bic_target calculated as the proper CUBIC cwnd at time t=tcp_time_stamp+rtt does not increase, because tcp_time_stamp only increases on jiffy tick boundaries. So since the cnt is set to: ca->cnt = cwnd / (bic_target - cwnd); as cwnd increases but bic_target does not increase due to jiffy granularity, the cnt becomes too large, causing cwnd to increase too slowly. For example: - suppose at the beginning of a jiffy, cwnd=40, bic_target=44 - so CUBIC sets: ca->cnt = cwnd / (bic_target - cwnd) = 40 / (44 - 40) = 40/4 = 10 - suppose we get 10 acks, each for 1 segment, so tcp_cong_avoid_ai() increases cwnd to 41 - so CUBIC sets: ca->cnt = cwnd / (bic_target - cwnd) = 41 / (44 - 41) = 41 / 3 = 13 So now CUBIC will wait for 13 packets to be ACKed before increasing cwnd to 42, insted of 10 as it should. The fix is to avoid adjusting the slope (determined by ca->cnt) multiple times within a jiffy, and instead skip to compute the Reno cwnd, the "TCP friendliness" code path. Reported-by: Eyal Perry Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: fix stretch ACK bugs in CUBIC

2015-01-29T06:18:38Z

Change CUBIC to properly handle stretch ACKs in additive increase mode by passing in the count of ACKed packets to tcp_cong_avoid_ai(). In addition, because we are now precisely accounting for stretch ACKs, including delayed ACKs, we can now remove the delayed ACK tracking and estimation code that tracked recent delayed ACK behavior in ca->delayed_ack. Reported-by: Eyal Perry Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: fix stretch ACK bugs in Reno

2015-01-29T06:18:38Z

Change Reno to properly handle stretch ACKs in additive increase mode by passing in the count of ACKed packets to tcp_cong_avoid_ai(). In addition, if snd_cwnd crosses snd_ssthresh during slow start processing, and we then exit slow start mode, we need to carry over any remaining "credit" for packets ACKed and apply that to additive increase by passing this remaining "acked" count to tcp_cong_avoid_ai(). Reported-by: Eyal Perry Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: fix the timid additive increase on stretch ACKs

2015-01-29T06:18:37Z

tcp_cong_avoid_ai() was too timid (snd_cwnd increased too slowly) on "stretch ACKs" -- cases where the receiver ACKed more than 1 packet in a single ACK. For example, suppose w is 10 and we get a stretch ACK for 20 packets, so acked is 20. We ought to increase snd_cwnd by 2 (since acked/w = 20/10 = 2), but instead we were only increasing cwnd by 1. This patch fixes that behavior. Reported-by: Eyal Perry Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: stretch ACK fixes prep

2015-01-29T06:18:37Z

LRO, GRO, delayed ACKs, and middleboxes can cause "stretch ACKs" that cover more than the RFC-specified maximum of 2 packets. These stretch ACKs can cause serious performance shortfalls in common congestion control algorithms that were designed and tuned years ago with receiver hosts that were not using LRO or GRO, and were instead politely ACKing every other packet. This patch series fixes Reno and CUBIC to handle stretch ACKs. This patch prepares for the upcoming stretch ACK bug fix patches. It adds an "acked" parameter to tcp_cong_avoid_ai() to allow for future fixes to tcp_cong_avoid_ai() to correctly handle stretch ACKs, and changes all congestion control algorithms to pass in 1 for the ACKed count. It also changes tcp_slow_start() to return the number of packet ACK "credits" that were not processed in slow start mode, and can be processed by the congestion control module in additive increase mode. In future patches we will fix tcp_cong_avoid_ai() to handle stretch ACKs, and fix Reno and CUBIC handling of stretch ACKs in slow start and additive increase mode. Reported-by: Eyal Perry Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ping: Fix race in free in receive path

2015-01-27T08:04:53Z

An exception is seen in ICMP ping receive path where the skb destructor sock_rfree() tries to access a freed socket. This happens because ping_rcv() releases socket reference with sock_put() and this internally frees up the socket. Later icmp_rcv() will try to free the skb and as part of this, skb destructor is called and which leads to a kernel panic as the socket is freed already in ping_rcv(). -->|exception -007|sk_mem_uncharge -007|sock_rfree -008|skb_release_head_state -009|skb_release_all -009|__kfree_skb -010|kfree_skb -011|icmp_rcv -012|ip_local_deliver_finish Fix this incorrect free by cloning this skb and processing this cloned skb instead. This patch was suggested by Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan Cc: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

udp_diag: Fix socket skipping within chain

2015-01-27T08:02:41Z

While working on rhashtable walking I noticed that the UDP diag dumping code is buggy. In particular, the socket skipping within a chain never happens, even though we record the number of sockets that should be skipped. As this code was supposedly copied from TCP, this patch does what TCP does and resets num before we walk a chain. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller