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<title>linux/net/ipv4, branch v5.8</title>
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<updated>2020-07-29T19:12:50Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>ipv4: Silence suspicious RCU usage warning</title>
<updated>2020-07-29T19:12:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ido Schimmel</name>
<email>idosch@mellanox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-29T08:37:13Z</published>
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fib_trie_unmerge() is called with RTNL held, but not from an RCU
read-side critical section. This leads to the following warning [1] when
the FIB alias list in a leaf is traversed with
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu().

Since the function is always called with RTNL held and since
modification of the list is protected by RTNL, simply use
hlist_for_each_entry() and silence the warning.

[1]
WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
5.8.0-rc4-custom-01520-gc1f937f3f83b #30 Not tainted
-----------------------------
net/ipv4/fib_trie.c:1867 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!!

other info that might help us debug this:

rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
1 lock held by ip/164:
 #0: ffffffff85a27850 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x49a/0xbd0

stack backtrace:
CPU: 0 PID: 164 Comm: ip Not tainted 5.8.0-rc4-custom-01520-gc1f937f3f83b #30
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-2.fc32 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 dump_stack+0x100/0x184
 lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x153/0x15d
 fib_trie_unmerge+0x608/0xdb0
 fib_unmerge+0x44/0x360
 fib4_rule_configure+0xc8/0xad0
 fib_nl_newrule+0x37a/0x1dd0
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x4f7/0xbd0
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x17a/0x480
 rtnetlink_rcv+0x22/0x30
 netlink_unicast+0x5ae/0x890
 netlink_sendmsg+0x98a/0xf40
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x879/0xa00
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x122/0x190
 __sys_sendmsg+0x103/0x1d0
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x7d/0xb0
 do_syscall_64+0x54/0xa0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
RIP: 0033:0x7fc80a234e97
Code: Bad RIP value.
RSP: 002b:00007ffef8b66798 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007fc80a234e97
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ffef8b66800 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 000000005f141b1c R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00007fc80a2a8ac0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007ffef8b67008 R15: 0000556fccb10020

Fixes: 0ddcf43d5d4a ("ipv4: FIB Local/MAIN table collapse")
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: allow at most one TLP probe per flight</title>
<updated>2020-07-23T19:23:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuchung Cheng</name>
<email>ycheng@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-23T19:00:06Z</published>
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Previously TLP may send multiple probes of new data in one
flight. This happens when the sender is cwnd limited. After the
initial TLP containing new data is sent, the sender receives another
ACK that acks partial inflight.  It may re-arm another TLP timer
to send more, if no further ACK returns before the next TLP timeout
(PTO) expires. The sender may send in theory a large amount of TLP
until send queue is depleted. This only happens if the sender sees
such irregular uncommon ACK pattern. But it is generally undesirable
behavior during congestion especially.

The original TLP design restrict only one TLP probe per inflight as
published in "Reducing Web Latency: the Virtue of Gentle Aggression",
SIGCOMM 2013. This patch changes TLP to send at most one probe
per inflight.

Note that if the sender is app-limited, TLP retransmits old data
and did not have this issue.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: udp: Fix wrong clean up for IS_UDPLITE macro</title>
<updated>2020-07-21T22:41:49Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Miaohe Lin</name>
<email>linmiaohe@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-21T09:11:44Z</published>
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We can't use IS_UDPLITE to replace udp_sk-&gt;pcflag when UDPLITE_RECV_CC is
checked.

Fixes: b2bf1e2659b1 ("[UDP]: Clean up for IS_UDPLITE macro")
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>udp: Improve load balancing for SO_REUSEPORT.</title>
<updated>2020-07-21T22:31:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuniyuki Iwashima</name>
<email>kuniyu@amazon.co.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-21T06:15:31Z</published>
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Currently, SO_REUSEPORT does not work well if connected sockets are in a
UDP reuseport group.

Then reuseport_has_conns() returns true and the result of
reuseport_select_sock() is discarded. Also, unconnected sockets have the
same score, hence only does the first unconnected socket in udp_hslot
always receive all packets sent to unconnected sockets.

So, the result of reuseport_select_sock() should be used for load
balancing.

The noteworthy point is that the unconnected sockets placed after
connected sockets in sock_reuseport.socks will receive more packets than
others because of the algorithm in reuseport_select_sock().

    index | connected | reciprocal_scale | result
    ---------------------------------------------
    0     | no        | 20%              | 40%
    1     | no        | 20%              | 20%
    2     | yes       | 20%              | 0%
    3     | no        | 20%              | 40%
    4     | yes       | 20%              | 0%

If most of the sockets are connected, this can be a problem, but it still
works better than now.

Fixes: acdcecc61285 ("udp: correct reuseport selection with connected sockets")
CC: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.co.jp&gt;
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: make sure listeners don't initialize congestion-control state</title>
<updated>2020-07-09T20:07:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Paasch</name>
<email>cpaasch@apple.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-08T23:18:34Z</published>
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syzkaller found its way into setsockopt with TCP_CONGESTION "cdg".
tcp_cdg_init() does a kcalloc to store the gradients. As sk_clone_lock
just copies all the memory, the allocated pointer will be copied as
well, if the app called setsockopt(..., TCP_CONGESTION) on the listener.
If now the socket will be destroyed before the congestion-control
has properly been initialized (through a call to tcp_init_transfer), we
will end up freeing memory that does not belong to that particular
socket, opening the door to a double-free:

[   11.413102] ==================================================================
[   11.414181] BUG: KASAN: double-free or invalid-free in tcp_cleanup_congestion_control+0x58/0xd0
[   11.415329]
[   11.415560] CPU: 3 PID: 4884 Comm: syz-executor.5 Not tainted 5.8.0-rc2 #80
[   11.416544] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.1-0-ga5cab58e9a3f-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[   11.418148] Call Trace:
[   11.418534]  &lt;IRQ&gt;
[   11.418834]  dump_stack+0x7d/0xb0
[   11.419297]  print_address_description.constprop.0+0x1a/0x210
[   11.422079]  kasan_report_invalid_free+0x51/0x80
[   11.423433]  __kasan_slab_free+0x15e/0x170
[   11.424761]  kfree+0x8c/0x230
[   11.425157]  tcp_cleanup_congestion_control+0x58/0xd0
[   11.425872]  tcp_v4_destroy_sock+0x57/0x5a0
[   11.426493]  inet_csk_destroy_sock+0x153/0x2c0
[   11.427093]  tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock+0xb29/0x1100
[   11.427731]  tcp_get_cookie_sock+0xc3/0x4a0
[   11.429457]  cookie_v4_check+0x13d0/0x2500
[   11.433189]  tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x60e/0x780
[   11.433727]  tcp_v4_rcv+0x2869/0x2e10
[   11.437143]  ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x23/0x190
[   11.437810]  ip_local_deliver+0x294/0x350
[   11.439566]  __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x15d/0x1a0
[   11.441995]  process_backlog+0x1b1/0x6b0
[   11.443148]  net_rx_action+0x37e/0xc40
[   11.445361]  __do_softirq+0x18c/0x61a
[   11.445881]  asm_call_on_stack+0x12/0x20
[   11.446409]  &lt;/IRQ&gt;
[   11.446716]  do_softirq_own_stack+0x34/0x40
[   11.447259]  do_softirq.part.0+0x26/0x30
[   11.447827]  __local_bh_enable_ip+0x46/0x50
[   11.448406]  ip_finish_output2+0x60f/0x1bc0
[   11.450109]  __ip_queue_xmit+0x71c/0x1b60
[   11.451861]  __tcp_transmit_skb+0x1727/0x3bb0
[   11.453789]  tcp_rcv_state_process+0x3070/0x4d3a
[   11.456810]  tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x2ad/0x780
[   11.457995]  __release_sock+0x14b/0x2c0
[   11.458529]  release_sock+0x4a/0x170
[   11.459005]  __inet_stream_connect+0x467/0xc80
[   11.461435]  inet_stream_connect+0x4e/0xa0
[   11.462043]  __sys_connect+0x204/0x270
[   11.465515]  __x64_sys_connect+0x6a/0xb0
[   11.466088]  do_syscall_64+0x3e/0x70
[   11.466617]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
[   11.467341] RIP: 0033:0x7f56046dc469
[   11.467844] Code: Bad RIP value.
[   11.468282] RSP: 002b:00007f5604dccdd8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002a
[   11.469326] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000068bf00 RCX: 00007f56046dc469
[   11.470379] RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: 0000000020000000 RDI: 0000000000000004
[   11.471311] RBP: 00000000ffffffff R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[   11.472286] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
[   11.473341] R13: 000000000041427c R14: 00007f5604dcd5c0 R15: 0000000000000003
[   11.474321]
[   11.474527] Allocated by task 4884:
[   11.475031]  save_stack+0x1b/0x40
[   11.475548]  __kasan_kmalloc.constprop.0+0xc2/0xd0
[   11.476182]  tcp_cdg_init+0xf0/0x150
[   11.476744]  tcp_init_congestion_control+0x9b/0x3a0
[   11.477435]  tcp_set_congestion_control+0x270/0x32f
[   11.478088]  do_tcp_setsockopt.isra.0+0x521/0x1a00
[   11.478744]  __sys_setsockopt+0xff/0x1e0
[   11.479259]  __x64_sys_setsockopt+0xb5/0x150
[   11.479895]  do_syscall_64+0x3e/0x70
[   11.480395]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
[   11.481097]
[   11.481321] Freed by task 4872:
[   11.481783]  save_stack+0x1b/0x40
[   11.482230]  __kasan_slab_free+0x12c/0x170
[   11.482839]  kfree+0x8c/0x230
[   11.483240]  tcp_cleanup_congestion_control+0x58/0xd0
[   11.483948]  tcp_v4_destroy_sock+0x57/0x5a0
[   11.484502]  inet_csk_destroy_sock+0x153/0x2c0
[   11.485144]  tcp_close+0x932/0xfe0
[   11.485642]  inet_release+0xc1/0x1c0
[   11.486131]  __sock_release+0xc0/0x270
[   11.486697]  sock_close+0xc/0x10
[   11.487145]  __fput+0x277/0x780
[   11.487632]  task_work_run+0xeb/0x180
[   11.488118]  __prepare_exit_to_usermode+0x15a/0x160
[   11.488834]  do_syscall_64+0x4a/0x70
[   11.489326]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Wei Wang fixed a part of these CDG-malloc issues with commit c12014440750
("tcp: memset ca_priv data to 0 properly").

This patch here fixes the listener-scenario: We make sure that listeners
setting the congestion-control through setsockopt won't initialize it
(thus CDG never allocates on listeners). For those who use AF_UNSPEC to
reuse a socket, tcp_disconnect() is changed to cleanup afterwards.

(The issue can be reproduced at least down to v4.4.x.)

Cc: Wei Wang &lt;weiwan@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Fixes: 2b0a8c9eee81 ("tcp: add CDG congestion control")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch &lt;cpaasch@apple.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv4: fill fl4_icmp_{type,code} in ping_v4_sendmsg</title>
<updated>2020-07-07T22:26:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sabrina Dubroca</name>
<email>sd@queasysnail.net</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-03T15:00:32Z</published>
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IPv4 ping sockets don't set fl4.fl4_icmp_{type,code}, which leads to
incomplete IPsec ACQUIRE messages being sent to userspace. Currently,
both raw sockets and IPv6 ping sockets set those fields.

Expected output of "ip xfrm monitor":
    acquire proto esp
      sel src 10.0.2.15/32 dst 8.8.8.8/32 proto icmp type 8 code 0 dev ens4
      policy src 10.0.2.15/32 dst 8.8.8.8/32
        &lt;snip&gt;

Currently with ping sockets:
    acquire proto esp
      sel src 10.0.2.15/32 dst 8.8.8.8/32 proto icmp type 0 code 0 dev ens4
      policy src 10.0.2.15/32 dst 8.8.8.8/32
        &lt;snip&gt;

The Libreswan test suite found this problem after Fedora changed the
value for the sysctl net.ipv4.ping_group_range.

Fixes: c319b4d76b9e ("net: ipv4: add IPPROTO_ICMP socket kind")
Reported-by: Paul Wouters &lt;pwouters@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Paul Wouters &lt;pwouters@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca &lt;sd@queasysnail.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: md5: allow changing MD5 keys in all socket states</title>
<updated>2020-07-02T21:07:49Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-02T01:39:33Z</published>
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This essentially reverts commit 721230326891 ("tcp: md5: reject TCP_MD5SIG
or TCP_MD5SIG_EXT on established sockets")

Mathieu reported that many vendors BGP implementations can
actually switch TCP MD5 on established flows.

Quoting Mathieu :
   Here is a list of a few network vendors along with their behavior
   with respect to TCP MD5:

   - Cisco: Allows for password to be changed, but within the hold-down
     timer (~180 seconds).
   - Juniper: When password is initially set on active connection it will
     reset, but after that any subsequent password changes no network
     resets.
   - Nokia: No notes on if they flap the tcp connection or not.
   - Ericsson/RedBack: Allows for 2 password (old/new) to co-exist until
     both sides are ok with new passwords.
   - Meta-Switch: Expects the password to be set before a connection is
     attempted, but no further info on whether they reset the TCP
     connection on a change.
   - Avaya: Disable the neighbor, then set password, then re-enable.
   - Zebos: Would normally allow the change when socket connected.

We can revert my prior change because commit 9424e2e7ad93 ("tcp: md5: fix potential
overestimation of TCP option space") removed the leak of 4 kernel bytes to
the wire that was the main reason for my patch.

While doing my investigations, I found a bug when a MD5 key is changed, leading
to these commits that stable teams want to consider before backporting this revert :

 Commit 6a2febec338d ("tcp: md5: add missing memory barriers in tcp_md5_do_add()/tcp_md5_hash_key()")
 Commit e6ced831ef11 ("tcp: md5: refine tcp_md5_do_add()/tcp_md5_hash_key() barriers")

Fixes: 721230326891 "tcp: md5: reject TCP_MD5SIG or TCP_MD5SIG_EXT on established sockets"
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: fix SO_RCVLOWAT possible hangs under high mem pressure</title>
<updated>2020-07-02T00:46:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-30T20:51:28Z</published>
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Whenever tcp_try_rmem_schedule() returns an error, we are under
trouble and should make sure to wakeup readers so that they
can drain socket queues and eventually make room.

Fixes: 03f45c883c6f ("tcp: avoid extra wakeups for SO_RCVLOWAT users")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ip: Fix SO_MARK in RST, ACK and ICMP packets</title>
<updated>2020-07-02T00:38:30Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Willem de Bruijn</name>
<email>willemb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-01T20:00:06Z</published>
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When no full socket is available, skbs are sent over a per-netns
control socket. Its sk_mark is temporarily adjusted to match that
of the real (request or timewait) socket or to reflect an incoming
skb, so that the outgoing skb inherits this in __ip_make_skb.

Introduction of the socket cookie mark field broke this. Now the
skb is set through the cookie and cork:

&lt;caller&gt;		# init sockc.mark from sk_mark or cmsg
ip_append_data
  ip_setup_cork		# convert sockc.mark to cork mark
ip_push_pending_frames
  ip_finish_skb
    __ip_make_skb	# set skb-&gt;mark to cork mark

But I missed these special control sockets. Update all callers of
__ip(6)_make_skb that were originally missed.

For IPv6, the same two icmp(v6) paths are affected. The third
case is not, as commit 92e55f412cff ("tcp: don't annotate
mark on control socket from tcp_v6_send_response()") replaced
the ctl_sk-&gt;sk_mark with passing the mark field directly as a
function argument. That commit predates the commit that
introduced the bug.

Fixes: c6af0c227a22 ("ip: support SO_MARK cmsg")
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: md5: do not send silly options in SYNCOOKIES</title>
<updated>2020-07-02T00:36:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-01T19:41:23Z</published>
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Whenever cookie_init_timestamp() has been used to encode
ECN,SACK,WSCALE options, we can not remove the TS option in the SYNACK.

Otherwise, tcp_synack_options() will still advertize options like WSCALE
that we can not deduce later when receiving the packet from the client
to complete 3WHS.

Note that modern linux TCP stacks wont use MD5+TS+SACK in a SYN packet,
but we can not know for sure that all TCP stacks have the same logic.

Before the fix a tcpdump would exhibit this wrong exchange :

10:12:15.464591 IP C &gt; S: Flags [S], seq 4202415601, win 65535, options [nop,nop,md5 valid,mss 1400,sackOK,TS val 456965269 ecr 0,nop,wscale 8], length 0
10:12:15.464602 IP S &gt; C: Flags [S.], seq 253516766, ack 4202415602, win 65535, options [nop,nop,md5 valid,mss 1400,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale 8], length 0
10:12:15.464611 IP C &gt; S: Flags [.], ack 1, win 256, options [nop,nop,md5 valid], length 0
10:12:15.464678 IP C &gt; S: Flags [P.], seq 1:13, ack 1, win 256, options [nop,nop,md5 valid], length 12
10:12:15.464685 IP S &gt; C: Flags [.], ack 13, win 65535, options [nop,nop,md5 valid], length 0

After this patch the exchange looks saner :

11:59:59.882990 IP C &gt; S: Flags [S], seq 517075944, win 65535, options [nop,nop,md5 valid,mss 1400,sackOK,TS val 1751508483 ecr 0,nop,wscale 8], length 0
11:59:59.883002 IP S &gt; C: Flags [S.], seq 1902939253, ack 517075945, win 65535, options [nop,nop,md5 valid,mss 1400,sackOK,TS val 1751508479 ecr 1751508483,nop,wscale 8], length 0
11:59:59.883012 IP C &gt; S: Flags [.], ack 1, win 256, options [nop,nop,md5 valid,nop,nop,TS val 1751508483 ecr 1751508479], length 0
11:59:59.883114 IP C &gt; S: Flags [P.], seq 1:13, ack 1, win 256, options [nop,nop,md5 valid,nop,nop,TS val 1751508483 ecr 1751508479], length 12
11:59:59.883122 IP S &gt; C: Flags [.], ack 13, win 256, options [nop,nop,md5 valid,nop,nop,TS val 1751508483 ecr 1751508483], length 0
11:59:59.883152 IP S &gt; C: Flags [P.], seq 1:13, ack 13, win 256, options [nop,nop,md5 valid,nop,nop,TS val 1751508484 ecr 1751508483], length 12
11:59:59.883170 IP C &gt; S: Flags [.], ack 13, win 256, options [nop,nop,md5 valid,nop,nop,TS val 1751508484 ecr 1751508484], length 0

Of course, no SACK block will ever be added later, but nothing should break.
Technically, we could remove the 4 nops included in MD5+TS options,
but again some stacks could break seeing not conventional alignment.

Fixes: 4957faade11b ("TCPCT part 1g: Responder Cookie =&gt; Initiator")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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