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    tcp: avoid unconditional congestion window undo on SYN retransmit · bc9f38c8
    Yuchung Cheng authored
    Previously if an active TCP open has SYN timeout, it always undo the
    cwnd upon receiving the SYNACK. This is because tcp_clean_rtx_queue
    would reset tp->retrans_stamp when SYN is acked, which fools then
    tcp_try_undo_loss and tcp_packet_delayed. Addressing this issue is
    required to properly support undo for spurious SYN timeout.
    
    Fixing this is tricky -- for active TCP open tp->retrans_stamp
    records the time when the handshake starts, not the first
    retransmission time as the name may suggest. The simplest fix is
    for tcp_packet_delayed to ensure it is valid before comparing with
    other timestamp.
    
    One side effect of this change is active TCP Fast Open that incurred
    SYN timeout. Upon receiving a SYN-ACK that only acknowledged
    the SYN, it would immediately retransmit unacknowledged data in
    tcp_ack() because the data is marked lost after SYN timeout. But
    the retransmission would have an incorrect ack sequence number since
    rcv_nxt has not been updated yet tcp_rcv_synsent_state_process(), the
    retransmission needs to properly handed by tcp_rcv_fastopen_synack()
    like before.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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