tcp: undo spurious timeout after SACK reneging
authorYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:42:25 +0000 (10:42 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 5 Apr 2013 17:16:53 +0000 (10:16 -0700)
commit01326198867ce1ab1bb26acb48de7b06eab571fe
treec5ec9099cf5b75c2dbd7331a1bbf4e79392b89bd
parent06551316b51c5f140c29748011c37057cb7ba932
tcp: undo spurious timeout after SACK reneging

[ Upstream commit 7ebe183c6d444ef5587d803b64a1f4734b18c564 ]

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 <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c