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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>icmp: randomize the global rate limiter</title>
<updated>2020-10-29T08:03:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-15T18:42:00+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b38e7819cae946e2edf869e604af1e65a5d241c5 ]

Keyu Man reported that the ICMP rate limiter could be used
by attackers to get useful signal. Details will be provided
in an upcoming academic publication.

Our solution is to add some noise, so that the attackers
no longer can get help from the predictable token bucket limiter.

Fixes: 4cdf507d5452 ("icmp: add a global rate limitation")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Keyu Man &lt;kman001@ucr.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit b38e7819cae946e2edf869e604af1e65a5d241c5 ]

Keyu Man reported that the ICMP rate limiter could be used
by attackers to get useful signal. Details will be provided
in an upcoming academic publication.

Our solution is to add some noise, so that the attackers
no longer can get help from the predictable token bucket limiter.

Fixes: 4cdf507d5452 ("icmp: add a global rate limitation")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Keyu Man &lt;kman001@ucr.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tcp: add tcp_min_snd_mss sysctl</title>
<updated>2019-06-17T17:54:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-16T00:44:24+00:00</published>
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commit 5f3e2bf008c2221478101ee72f5cb4654b9fc363 upstream.

Some TCP peers announce a very small MSS option in their SYN and/or
SYN/ACK messages.

This forces the stack to send packets with a very high network/cpu
overhead.

Linux has enforced a minimal value of 48. Since this value includes
the size of TCP options, and that the options can consume up to 40
bytes, this means that each segment can include only 8 bytes of payload.

In some cases, it can be useful to increase the minimal value
to a saner value.

We still let the default to 48 (TCP_MIN_SND_MSS), for compatibility
reasons.

Note that TCP_MAXSEG socket option enforces a minimal value
of (TCP_MIN_MSS). David Miller increased this minimal value
in commit c39508d6f118 ("tcp: Make TCP_MAXSEG minimum more correct.")
from 64 to 88.

We might in the future merge TCP_MIN_SND_MSS and TCP_MIN_MSS.

CVE-2019-11479 -- tcp mss hardcoded to 48

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Jonathan Looney &lt;jtl@netflix.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tyler Hicks &lt;tyhicks@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Bruce Curtis &lt;brucec@netflix.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Lemon &lt;jonathan.lemon@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 5f3e2bf008c2221478101ee72f5cb4654b9fc363 upstream.

Some TCP peers announce a very small MSS option in their SYN and/or
SYN/ACK messages.

This forces the stack to send packets with a very high network/cpu
overhead.

Linux has enforced a minimal value of 48. Since this value includes
the size of TCP options, and that the options can consume up to 40
bytes, this means that each segment can include only 8 bytes of payload.

In some cases, it can be useful to increase the minimal value
to a saner value.

We still let the default to 48 (TCP_MIN_SND_MSS), for compatibility
reasons.

Note that TCP_MAXSEG socket option enforces a minimal value
of (TCP_MIN_MSS). David Miller increased this minimal value
in commit c39508d6f118 ("tcp: Make TCP_MAXSEG minimum more correct.")
from 64 to 88.

We might in the future merge TCP_MIN_SND_MSS and TCP_MIN_MSS.

CVE-2019-11479 -- tcp mss hardcoded to 48

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Jonathan Looney &lt;jtl@netflix.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell &lt;ncardwell@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yuchung Cheng &lt;ycheng@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tyler Hicks &lt;tyhicks@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Bruce Curtis &lt;brucec@netflix.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Lemon &lt;jonathan.lemon@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv4: set the tcp_min_rtt_wlen range from 0 to one day</title>
<updated>2019-05-16T17:44:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>ZhangXiaoxu</name>
<email>zhangxiaoxu5@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-16T01:47:24+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 19fad20d15a6494f47f85d869f00b11343ee5c78 ]

There is a UBSAN report as below:
UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:2877:56
signed integer overflow:
2147483647 * 1000 cannot be represented in type 'int'
CPU: 3 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/3 Not tainted 5.1.0-rc4-00058-g582549e #1
Call Trace:
 &lt;IRQ&gt;
 dump_stack+0x8c/0xba
 ubsan_epilogue+0x11/0x60
 handle_overflow+0x12d/0x170
 ? ttwu_do_wakeup+0x21/0x320
 __ubsan_handle_mul_overflow+0x12/0x20
 tcp_ack_update_rtt+0x76c/0x780
 tcp_clean_rtx_queue+0x499/0x14d0
 tcp_ack+0x69e/0x1240
 ? __wake_up_sync_key+0x2c/0x50
 ? update_group_capacity+0x50/0x680
 tcp_rcv_established+0x4e2/0xe10
 tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x22b/0x420
 tcp_v4_rcv+0xfe8/0x1190
 ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x36/0x180
 ip_local_deliver+0x15b/0x1a0
 ip_rcv+0xac/0xd0
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x7f/0xb0
 __netif_receive_skb+0x33/0xc0
 netif_receive_skb_internal+0x84/0x1c0
 napi_gro_receive+0x2a0/0x300
 receive_buf+0x3d4/0x2350
 ? detach_buf_split+0x159/0x390
 virtnet_poll+0x198/0x840
 ? reweight_entity+0x243/0x4b0
 net_rx_action+0x25c/0x770
 __do_softirq+0x19b/0x66d
 irq_exit+0x1eb/0x230
 do_IRQ+0x7a/0x150
 common_interrupt+0xf/0xf
 &lt;/IRQ&gt;

It can be reproduced by:
  echo 2147483647 &gt; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_min_rtt_wlen

Fixes: f672258391b42 ("tcp: track min RTT using windowed min-filter")
Signed-off-by: ZhangXiaoxu &lt;zhangxiaoxu5@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 19fad20d15a6494f47f85d869f00b11343ee5c78 ]

There is a UBSAN report as below:
UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:2877:56
signed integer overflow:
2147483647 * 1000 cannot be represented in type 'int'
CPU: 3 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/3 Not tainted 5.1.0-rc4-00058-g582549e #1
Call Trace:
 &lt;IRQ&gt;
 dump_stack+0x8c/0xba
 ubsan_epilogue+0x11/0x60
 handle_overflow+0x12d/0x170
 ? ttwu_do_wakeup+0x21/0x320
 __ubsan_handle_mul_overflow+0x12/0x20
 tcp_ack_update_rtt+0x76c/0x780
 tcp_clean_rtx_queue+0x499/0x14d0
 tcp_ack+0x69e/0x1240
 ? __wake_up_sync_key+0x2c/0x50
 ? update_group_capacity+0x50/0x680
 tcp_rcv_established+0x4e2/0xe10
 tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x22b/0x420
 tcp_v4_rcv+0xfe8/0x1190
 ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x36/0x180
 ip_local_deliver+0x15b/0x1a0
 ip_rcv+0xac/0xd0
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x7f/0xb0
 __netif_receive_skb+0x33/0xc0
 netif_receive_skb_internal+0x84/0x1c0
 napi_gro_receive+0x2a0/0x300
 receive_buf+0x3d4/0x2350
 ? detach_buf_split+0x159/0x390
 virtnet_poll+0x198/0x840
 ? reweight_entity+0x243/0x4b0
 net_rx_action+0x25c/0x770
 __do_softirq+0x19b/0x66d
 irq_exit+0x1eb/0x230
 do_IRQ+0x7a/0x150
 common_interrupt+0xf/0xf
 &lt;/IRQ&gt;

It can be reproduced by:
  echo 2147483647 &gt; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_min_rtt_wlen

Fixes: f672258391b42 ("tcp: track min RTT using windowed min-filter")
Signed-off-by: ZhangXiaoxu &lt;zhangxiaoxu5@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documentation/network: reword kernel version reference</title>
<updated>2019-02-20T09:13:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rustad</name>
<email>mrustad@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-15T16:19:55+00:00</published>
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It seemed odd to say "since 4.17" in a 4.4 kernel. Consider
rewording the reference to indicate where in the stable series
it was introduced as well as where it originated.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad &lt;mrustad@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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It seemed odd to say "since 4.17" in a 4.4 kernel. Consider
rewording the reference to indicate where in the stable series
it was introduced as well as where it originated.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad &lt;mrustad@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>inet: frags: break the 2GB limit for frags storage</title>
<updated>2019-02-08T10:25:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-10T19:30:00+00:00</published>
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commit 3e67f106f619dcfaf6f4e2039599bdb69848c714 upstream.

Some users are willing to provision huge amounts of memory to be able
to perform reassembly reasonnably well under pressure.

Current memory tracking is using one atomic_t and integers.

Switch to atomic_long_t so that 64bit arches can use more than 2GB,
without any cost for 32bit arches.

Note that this patch avoids an overflow error, if high_thresh was set
to ~2GB, since this test in inet_frag_alloc() was never true :

if (... || frag_mem_limit(nf) &gt; nf-&gt;high_thresh)

Tested:

$ echo 16000000000 &gt;/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ipfrag_high_thresh

&lt;frag DDOS&gt;

$ grep FRAG /proc/net/sockstat
FRAG: inuse 14705885 memory 16000002880

$ nstat -n ; sleep 1 ; nstat | grep Reas
IpReasmReqds                    3317150            0.0
IpReasmFails                    3317112            0.0

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 3e67f106f619dcfaf6f4e2039599bdb69848c714 upstream.

Some users are willing to provision huge amounts of memory to be able
to perform reassembly reasonnably well under pressure.

Current memory tracking is using one atomic_t and integers.

Switch to atomic_long_t so that 64bit arches can use more than 2GB,
without any cost for 32bit arches.

Note that this patch avoids an overflow error, if high_thresh was set
to ~2GB, since this test in inet_frag_alloc() was never true :

if (... || frag_mem_limit(nf) &gt; nf-&gt;high_thresh)

Tested:

$ echo 16000000000 &gt;/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ipfrag_high_thresh

&lt;frag DDOS&gt;

$ grep FRAG /proc/net/sockstat
FRAG: inuse 14705885 memory 16000002880

$ nstat -n ; sleep 1 ; nstat | grep Reas
IpReasmReqds                    3317150            0.0
IpReasmFails                    3317112            0.0

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>inet: frags: use rhashtables for reassembly units</title>
<updated>2019-02-08T10:25:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-10T19:29:56+00:00</published>
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commit 648700f76b03b7e8149d13cc2bdb3355035258a9 upstream.

Some applications still rely on IP fragmentation, and to be fair linux
reassembly unit is not working under any serious load.

It uses static hash tables of 1024 buckets, and up to 128 items per bucket (!!!)

A work queue is supposed to garbage collect items when host is under memory
pressure, and doing a hash rebuild, changing seed used in hash computations.

This work queue blocks softirqs for up to 25 ms when doing a hash rebuild,
occurring every 5 seconds if host is under fire.

Then there is the problem of sharing this hash table for all netns.

It is time to switch to rhashtables, and allocate one of them per netns
to speedup netns dismantle, since this is a critical metric these days.

Lookup is now using RCU. A followup patch will even remove
the refcount hold/release left from prior implementation and save
a couple of atomic operations.

Before this patch, 16 cpus (16 RX queue NIC) could not handle more
than 1 Mpps frags DDOS.

After the patch, I reach 9 Mpps without any tuning, and can use up to 2GB
of storage for the fragments (exact number depends on frags being evicted
after timeout)

$ grep FRAG /proc/net/sockstat
FRAG: inuse 1966916 memory 2140004608

A followup patch will change the limits for 64bit arches.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer &lt;brouer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Aring &lt;alex.aring@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stefan Schmidt &lt;stefan@osg.samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 4.4: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 648700f76b03b7e8149d13cc2bdb3355035258a9 upstream.

Some applications still rely on IP fragmentation, and to be fair linux
reassembly unit is not working under any serious load.

It uses static hash tables of 1024 buckets, and up to 128 items per bucket (!!!)

A work queue is supposed to garbage collect items when host is under memory
pressure, and doing a hash rebuild, changing seed used in hash computations.

This work queue blocks softirqs for up to 25 ms when doing a hash rebuild,
occurring every 5 seconds if host is under fire.

Then there is the problem of sharing this hash table for all netns.

It is time to switch to rhashtables, and allocate one of them per netns
to speedup netns dismantle, since this is a critical metric these days.

Lookup is now using RCU. A followup patch will even remove
the refcount hold/release left from prior implementation and save
a couple of atomic operations.

Before this patch, 16 cpus (16 RX queue NIC) could not handle more
than 1 Mpps frags DDOS.

After the patch, I reach 9 Mpps without any tuning, and can use up to 2GB
of storage for the fragments (exact number depends on frags being evicted
after timeout)

$ grep FRAG /proc/net/sockstat
FRAG: inuse 1966916 memory 2140004608

A followup patch will change the limits for 64bit arches.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer &lt;brouer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Aring &lt;alex.aring@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stefan Schmidt &lt;stefan@osg.samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 4.4: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Documentation: Fix default value tcp_limit_output_bytes</title>
<updated>2015-11-09T17:17:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Niklas Cassel</name>
<email>niklas.cassel@axis.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-09T14:59:00+00:00</published>
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Commit c39c4c6abb89 ("tcp: double default TSQ output bytes limit")
updated default value for tcp_limit_output_bytes

Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel &lt;niklas.cassel@axis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Commit c39c4c6abb89 ("tcp: double default TSQ output bytes limit")
updated default value for tcp_limit_output_bytes

Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel &lt;niklas.cassel@axis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec-next</title>
<updated>2015-10-30T11:51:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-30T11:51:56+00:00</published>
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Steffen Klassert says:

====================
pull request (net-next): ipsec-next 2015-10-30

1) The flow cache is limited by the flow cache limit which
   depends on the number of cpus and the xfrm garbage collector
   threshold which is independent of the number of cpus. This
   leads to the fact that on systems with more than 16 cpus
   we hit the xfrm garbage collector limit and refuse new
   allocations, so new flows are dropped. On systems with 16
   or less cpus, we hit the flowcache limit. In this case, we
   shrink the flow cache instead of refusing new flows.

   We increase the xfrm garbage collector threshold to INT_MAX
   to get the same behaviour, independent of the number of cpus.

2) Fix some unaligned accesses on sparc systems.
   From Sowmini Varadhan.

3) Fix some header checks in _decode_session4. We may call
   pskb_may_pull with a negative value converted to unsigened
   int from pskb_may_pull. This can lead to incorrect policy
   lookups. We fix this by a check of the data pointer position
   before we call pskb_may_pull.

4) Reload skb header pointers after calling pskb_may_pull
   in _decode_session4 as this may change the pointers into
   the packet.

5) Add a missing statistic counter on inner mode errors.

Please pull or let me know if there are problems.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Steffen Klassert says:

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pull request (net-next): ipsec-next 2015-10-30

1) The flow cache is limited by the flow cache limit which
   depends on the number of cpus and the xfrm garbage collector
   threshold which is independent of the number of cpus. This
   leads to the fact that on systems with more than 16 cpus
   we hit the xfrm garbage collector limit and refuse new
   allocations, so new flows are dropped. On systems with 16
   or less cpus, we hit the flowcache limit. In this case, we
   shrink the flow cache instead of refusing new flows.

   We increase the xfrm garbage collector threshold to INT_MAX
   to get the same behaviour, independent of the number of cpus.

2) Fix some unaligned accesses on sparc systems.
   From Sowmini Varadhan.

3) Fix some header checks in _decode_session4. We may call
   pskb_may_pull with a negative value converted to unsigened
   int from pskb_may_pull. This can lead to incorrect policy
   lookups. We fix this by a check of the data pointer position
   before we call pskb_may_pull.

4) Reload skb header pointers after calling pskb_may_pull
   in _decode_session4 as this may change the pointers into
   the packet.

5) Add a missing statistic counter on inner mode errors.

Please pull or let me know if there are problems.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>tcp: use RACK to detect losses</title>
<updated>2015-10-21T14:00:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuchung Cheng</name>
<email>ycheng@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-17T04:57:47+00:00</published>
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This patch implements the second half of RACK that uses the the most
recent transmit time among all delivered packets to detect losses.

tcp_rack_mark_lost() is called upon receiving a dubious ACK.
It then checks if an not-yet-sacked packet was sent at least
"reo_wnd" prior to the sent time of the most recently delivered.
If so the packet is deemed lost.

The "reo_wnd" reordering window starts with 1msec for fast loss
detection and changes to min-RTT/4 when reordering is observed.
We found 1msec accommodates well on tiny degree of reordering
(&lt;3 pkts) on faster links. We use min-RTT instead of SRTT because
reordering is more of a path property but SRTT can be inflated by
self-inflicated congestion. The factor of 4 is borrowed from the
delayed early retransmit and seems to work reasonably well.

Since RACK is still experimental, it is now used as a supplemental
loss detection on top of existing algorithms. It is only effective
after the fast recovery starts or after the timeout occurs. The
fast recovery is still triggered by FACK and/or dupack threshold
instead of RACK.

We introduce a new sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_recovery for future
experiments of loss recoveries. For now RACK can be disabled by
setting it to 0.

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;
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This patch implements the second half of RACK that uses the the most
recent transmit time among all delivered packets to detect losses.

tcp_rack_mark_lost() is called upon receiving a dubious ACK.
It then checks if an not-yet-sacked packet was sent at least
"reo_wnd" prior to the sent time of the most recently delivered.
If so the packet is deemed lost.

The "reo_wnd" reordering window starts with 1msec for fast loss
detection and changes to min-RTT/4 when reordering is observed.
We found 1msec accommodates well on tiny degree of reordering
(&lt;3 pkts) on faster links. We use min-RTT instead of SRTT because
reordering is more of a path property but SRTT can be inflated by
self-inflicated congestion. The factor of 4 is borrowed from the
delayed early retransmit and seems to work reasonably well.

Since RACK is still experimental, it is now used as a supplemental
loss detection on top of existing algorithms. It is only effective
after the fast recovery starts or after the timeout occurs. The
fast recovery is still triggered by FACK and/or dupack threshold
instead of RACK.

We introduce a new sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_recovery for future
experiments of loss recoveries. For now RACK can be disabled by
setting it to 0.

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;
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<title>tcp: track min RTT using windowed min-filter</title>
<updated>2015-10-21T14:00:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuchung Cheng</name>
<email>ycheng@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-17T04:57:42+00:00</published>
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Kathleen Nichols' algorithm for tracking the minimum RTT of a
data stream over some measurement window. It uses constant space
and constant time per update. Yet it almost always delivers
the same minimum as an implementation that has to keep all
the data in the window. The measurement window is tunable via
sysctl.net.ipv4.tcp_min_rtt_wlen with a default value of 5 minutes.

The algorithm keeps track of the best, 2nd best &amp; 3rd best min
values, maintaining an invariant that the measurement time of
the n'th best &gt;= n-1'th best. It also makes sure that the three
values are widely separated in the time window since that bounds
the worse case error when that data is monotonically increasing
over the window.

Upon getting a new min, we can forget everything earlier because
it has no value - the new min is less than everything else in the
window by definition and it's the most recent. So we restart fresh
on every new min and overwrites the 2nd &amp; 3rd choices. The same
property holds for the 2nd &amp; 3rd best.

Therefore we have to maintain two invariants to maximize the
information in the samples, one on values (1st.v &lt;= 2nd.v &lt;=
3rd.v) and the other on times (now-win &lt;=1st.t &lt;= 2nd.t &lt;= 3rd.t &lt;=
now). These invariants determine the structure of the code

The RTT input to the windowed filter is the minimum RTT measured
from ACK or SACK, or as the last resort from TCP timestamps.

The accessor tcp_min_rtt() returns the minimum RTT seen in the
window. ~0U indicates it is not available. The minimum is 1usec
even if the true RTT is below that.

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;
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Kathleen Nichols' algorithm for tracking the minimum RTT of a
data stream over some measurement window. It uses constant space
and constant time per update. Yet it almost always delivers
the same minimum as an implementation that has to keep all
the data in the window. The measurement window is tunable via
sysctl.net.ipv4.tcp_min_rtt_wlen with a default value of 5 minutes.

The algorithm keeps track of the best, 2nd best &amp; 3rd best min
values, maintaining an invariant that the measurement time of
the n'th best &gt;= n-1'th best. It also makes sure that the three
values are widely separated in the time window since that bounds
the worse case error when that data is monotonically increasing
over the window.

Upon getting a new min, we can forget everything earlier because
it has no value - the new min is less than everything else in the
window by definition and it's the most recent. So we restart fresh
on every new min and overwrites the 2nd &amp; 3rd choices. The same
property holds for the 2nd &amp; 3rd best.

Therefore we have to maintain two invariants to maximize the
information in the samples, one on values (1st.v &lt;= 2nd.v &lt;=
3rd.v) and the other on times (now-win &lt;=1st.t &lt;= 2nd.t &lt;= 3rd.t &lt;=
now). These invariants determine the structure of the code

The RTT input to the windowed filter is the minimum RTT measured
from ACK or SACK, or as the last resort from TCP timestamps.

The accessor tcp_min_rtt() returns the minimum RTT seen in the
window. ~0U indicates it is not available. The minimum is 1usec
even if the true RTT is below that.

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;
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