linux-stable.git/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h, branch linux-3.13.y

inet*.h: Remove extern from function prototypes

2013-09-21T18:01:38+00:00

There are a mix of function prototypes with and without extern
in the kernel sources.  Standardize on not using extern for
function prototypes.

Function prototypes don't need to be written with extern.
extern is assumed by the compiler.  Its use is as unnecessary as
using auto to declare automatic/local variables in a block.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: Tail loss probe (TLP)

2013-03-12T12:30:34+00:00

This patch series implement the Tail loss probe (TLP) algorithm described
in http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dukkipati-tcpm-tcp-loss-probe-01. The
first patch implements the basic algorithm.

TLP's goal is to reduce tail latency of short transactions. It achieves
this by converting retransmission timeouts (RTOs) occuring due
to tail losses (losses at end of transactions) into fast recovery.
TLP transmits one packet in two round-trips when a connection is in
Open state and isn't receiving any ACKs. The transmitted packet, aka
loss probe, can be either new or a retransmission. When there is tail
loss, the ACK from a loss probe triggers FACK/early-retransmit based
fast recovery, thus avoiding a costly RTO. In the absence of loss,
there is no change in the connection state.

PTO stands for probe timeout. It is a timer event indicating
that an ACK is overdue and triggers a loss probe packet. The PTO value
is set to max(2*SRTT, 10ms) and is adjusted to account for delayed
ACK timer when there is only one oustanding packet.

TLP Algorithm

On transmission of new data in Open state:
  -> packets_out > 1: schedule PTO in max(2*SRTT, 10ms).
  -> packets_out == 1: schedule PTO in max(2*RTT, 1.5*RTT + 200ms)
  -> PTO = min(PTO, RTO)

Conditions for scheduling PTO:
  -> Connection is in Open state.
  -> Connection is either cwnd limited or no new data to send.
  -> Number of probes per tail loss episode is limited to one.
  -> Connection is SACK enabled.

When PTO fires:
  new_segment_exists:
    -> transmit new segment.
    -> packets_out++. cwnd remains same.

  no_new_packet:
    -> retransmit the last segment.
       Its ACK triggers FACK or early retransmit based recovery.

ACK path:
  -> rearm RTO at start of ACK processing.
  -> reschedule PTO if need be.

In addition, the patch includes a small variation to the Early Retransmit
(ER) algorithm, such that ER and TLP together can in principle recover any
N-degree of tail loss through fast recovery. TLP is controlled by the same
sysctl as ER, tcp_early_retrans sysctl.
tcp_early_retrans==0; disables TLP and ER.
		 ==1; enables RFC5827 ER.
		 ==2; delayed ER.
		 ==3; TLP and delayed ER. [DEFAULT]
		 ==4; TLP only.

The TLP patch series have been extensively tested on Google Web servers.
It is most effective for short Web trasactions, where it reduced RTOs by 15%
and improved HTTP response time (average by 6%, 99th percentile by 10%).
The transmitted probes account for <0.5% of the overall transmissions.

Signed-off-by: Nandita Dukkipati 
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell 
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

inet: Fix kmemleak in tcp_v4/6_syn_recv_sock and dccp_v4/6_request_recv_sock

2012-12-14T18:14:07+00:00

If in either of the above functions inet_csk_route_child_sock() or
__inet_inherit_port() fails, the newsk will not be freed:

unreferenced object 0xffff88022e8a92c0 (size 1592):
  comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4294946244 (age 726.160s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    0a 01 01 01 0a 01 01 02 00 00 00 00 a7 cc 16 00  ................
    02 00 03 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [] kmemleak_alloc+0x21/0x3e
    [] kmem_cache_alloc+0xb5/0xc5
    [] sk_prot_alloc.isra.53+0x2b/0xcd
    [] sk_clone_lock+0x16/0x21e
    [] inet_csk_clone_lock+0x10/0x7b
    [] tcp_create_openreq_child+0x21/0x481
    [] tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock+0x3a/0x23b
    [] tcp_check_req+0x29f/0x416
    [] tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x161/0x2bc
    [] tcp_v4_rcv+0x6c9/0x701
    [] ip_local_deliver_finish+0x70/0xc4
    [] ip_local_deliver+0x4e/0x7f
    [] ip_rcv_finish+0x1fc/0x233
    [] ip_rcv+0x217/0x267
    [] __netif_receive_skb+0x49e/0x553
    [] netif_receive_skb+0x50/0x82

This happens, because sk_clone_lock initializes sk_refcnt to 2, and thus
a single sock_put() is not enough to free the memory. Additionally, things
like xfrm, memcg, cookie_values,... may have been initialized.
We have to free them properly.

This is fixed by forcing a call to tcp_done(), ending up in
inet_csk_destroy_sock, doing the final sock_put(). tcp_done() is necessary,
because it ends up doing all the cleanup on xfrm, memcg, cookie_values,
xfrm,...

Before calling tcp_done, we have to set the socket to SOCK_DEAD, to
force it entering inet_csk_destroy_sock. To avoid the warning in
inet_csk_destroy_sock, inet_num has to be set to 0.
As inet_csk_destroy_sock does a dec on orphan_count, we first have to
increase it.

Calling tcp_done() allows us to remove the calls to
tcp_clear_xmit_timer() and tcp_cleanup_congestion_control().

A similar approach is taken for dccp by calling dccp_done().

This is in the kernel since 093d282321 (tproxy: fix hash locking issue
when using port redirection in __inet_inherit_port()), thus since
version >= 2.6.37.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: ipv6: fix TCP early demux

2012-08-06T20:33:21+00:00

IPv6 needs a cookie in dst_check() call.

We need to add rx_dst_cookie and provide a family independent
sk_rx_dst_set(sk, skb) method to properly support IPv6 TCP early demux.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: Kill FLOWI_FLAG_RT_NOCACHE and associated code.

2012-07-20T20:36:54+00:00

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: Add helper inet_csk_update_pmtu().

2012-07-16T10:28:06+00:00

This abstracts away the call to dst_ops->update_pmtu() so that we can
transparently handle the fact that, in the future, the dst itself can
be invalidated by the PMTU update (when we have non-host routes cached
in sockets).

So we try to rebuild the socket cached route after the method
invocation if necessary.

This isn't used by SCTP because it needs to cache dsts per-transport,
and thus will need it's own local version of this helper.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

inet: Remove ->get_peer() method.

2012-07-11T05:40:10+00:00

No longer used.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: tcp: dont cache output dst for syncookies

2012-06-23T04:47:33+00:00

Don't cache output dst for syncookies, as this adds pressure on IP route
cache and rcu subsystem for no gain.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Hans Schillstrom 
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: Get rid of inetpeer special cases.

2012-06-09T08:25:47+00:00

The get_peer method TCP uses is full of special cases that make no
sense accommodating, and it also gets in the way of doing more
reasonable things here.

First of all, if the socket doesn't have a usable cached route, there
is no sense in trying to optimize timewait recycling.

Likewise for the case where we have IP options, such as SRR enabled,
that make the IP header destination address (and thus the destination
address of the route key) differ from that of the connection's
destination address.

Just return a NULL peer in these cases, and thus we're also able to
get rid of the clumsy inetpeer release logic.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv6: RTAX_FEATURE_ALLFRAG causes inefficient TCP segment sizing

2012-04-27T04:03:34+00:00

Quoting Tore Anderson from :
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42572

When RTAX_FEATURE_ALLFRAG is set on a route, the effective TCP segment
size does not take into account the size of the IPv6 Fragmentation
header that needs to be included in outbound packets, causing every
transmitted TCP segment to be fragmented across two IPv6 packets, the
latter of which will only contain 8 bytes of actual payload.

RTAX_FEATURE_ALLFRAG is typically set on a route in response to
receving a ICMPv6 Packet Too Big message indicating a Path MTU of less
than 1280 bytes. 1280 bytes is the minimum IPv6 MTU, however ICMPv6
PTBs with MTU < 1280 are still valid, in particular when an IPv6
packet is sent to an IPv4 destination through a stateless translator.
Any ICMPv4 Need To Fragment packets originated from the IPv4 part of
the path will be translated to ICMPv6 PTB which may then indicate an
MTU of less than 1280.

The Linux kernel refuses to reduce the effective MTU to anything below
1280 bytes, instead it sets it to exactly 1280 bytes, and
RTAX_FEATURE_ALLFRAG is also set. However, the TCP segment size appears
to be set to 1240 bytes (1280 Path MTU - 40 bytes of IPv6 header),
instead of 1232 (additionally taking into account the 8 bytes required
by the IPv6 Fragmentation extension header).

This in turn results in rather inefficient transmission, as every
transmitted TCP segment now is split in two fragments containing
1232+8 bytes of payload.

After this patch, all the outgoing packets that includes a
Fragmentation header all are "atomic" or "non-fragmented" fragments,
i.e., they both have Offset=0 and More Fragments=0.

With help from David S. Miller

Reported-by: Tore Anderson 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski 
Cc: Tom Herbert 
Tested-by: Tore Anderson 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller