tcp: undo spurious timeout after SACK reneging

On SACK reneging the sender immediately retransmits and forces a
timeout but disables Eifel (undo). If the (buggy) receiver does not
drop any packet this can trigger a false slow-start retransmit storm
driven by the ACKs of the original packets. This can be detected with
undo and TCP timestamps.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
index 0d9bdacce99f46a77982d89c86a7764fe9ef15f8..3bd55bad230ac7f822f4ea75eb280bc8ce0c07fc 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
@@ -2059,11 +2059,8 @@ void tcp_enter_loss(struct sock *sk, int how)
        if (tcp_is_reno(tp))
                tcp_reset_reno_sack(tp);
 
-       if (!how) {
-               /* Push undo marker, if it was plain RTO and nothing
-                * was retransmitted. */
-               tp->undo_marker = tp->snd_una;
-       } else {
+       tp->undo_marker = tp->snd_una;
+       if (how) {
                tp->sacked_out = 0;
                tp->fackets_out = 0;
        }